Top Comedian Jo Brand is supporting the Alcohol It’s No Joke campaign. In this exclusive interview, she talks about her teenage experiences with alcohol, and why it’s important to discuss the issues surrounding alcohol with your kids.
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Alcohol Abuse
A new study from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has found evidence that the amount and timing of alcohol consumption in pregnancy affects child behaviour in different ways.
The study has been published online in the international journal Addiction. [continue reading…]
The type of drink did not appear to change the results
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.
The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.
Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.
Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year. ….continue reading
Source: BBC
Today’s focus is on alcohol abuse.The World Health Organization is launching the first global war against alcohol abuse.Can it replicate the success of the anti-smoking campaign?Well that at least is the hope of the World Health Organization, which, between now and January, will be honing its draft of the first global strategy on reducing health damage from alcohol abuse, the fifth leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide.
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Source: New Scientist
