Friday Favorites: Is It Better to Drink Little Alcohol Than None? Do Any Benefits Outweigh Risks?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2022-08-19

Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to have lower mortality than abstainers? 

Hold on. HDL isn’t “good” cholesterol anymore? Check out my ashtray and gym shoes analogies in reference to causal risk factors in my Coconut Oil and the Boost in HDL “Good” Cholesterol (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/coconut-oil-and-the-boost-in-hdl-good-cholesterol/) video.

How much cancer does alcohol really cause, though? You might have missed the first video of this series: Can Alcohol Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-alcohol-cause-cancer).

What about resveratrol and the French paradox? See The Best Source of Resveratrol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Best-Source-of-Resveratrol) and What Explains the French Paradox? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-explains-the-french-paradox).

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