Canada has released its new Guidance on Alcohol and Health.
The focus is to provide up to date information on the risks and harms associated with the use of alcohol.
The new studies show that the risks increase with the number of drinks consumed a week, and that even a small number of drinks can pose a risk to your health.
It also states that there is a continuum of risk for alcohol-related harms and the risk is:
Negligible to low risk when consuming two standard drinks or fewer per week;
moderate risk for three-to-six standard drinks per week;
and increasingly high risk beyond six standard drinks per week
They define alcohol related harms to be several types of cancers, including breast and colon, heart disease and stroke, liver disease, gastrointestinal bleeding, violence, falls, and motor vehicle crashes.
This new guidance replaces the 2011 Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines.
For more information, please refer to CCSA at www.ccsa.ca or refer to hnhu.org or contact the HNHU at 519-426-6170 in Norfolk or 905-318-6623 in Haldimand.