Can drinking Alcohol cause Cancer?

Drinking and driving has long been considered a health hazard. There are any number of examples where lives have been lost just because someone was driving under influence of alcohol. It is tragic, but is that the only danger from alcohol? Apparently not, as a science project recently pointed out.

Cancer Research UK published a study wherein the connection between alcohol consumption with cancer was documented. The study said that for a person who drank more than three drinks a day there was considerable damage to the liver and the heart. While liver cirrhosis has been previously documented, the ill effects of alcohol on the heart have not been studied in such detail.

Drinking heavily add more fat to the bloodstream. This can lead to clogged blood vessels. The study found that high alcohol intake over a long period of time, can lead to high blood pressure, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure and stroke. A study which was published this year estimated that alcohol consumption caused at least 13,000 cancer cases in the UK annual. Of these about 9,000 cases were detected in men and 4,000 in women.

The two most prominent types of cancer detected were bowel cancer and breast cancer. Heavy drinking in men also caused the sperm quality and quantity to drop. So it would be best as per this science study if alcohol consumption was limited to moderate if you wish to keep your health.