A new website, knowalcohol.ca, allows users to assess their individual risk of alcohol-related diseases based on their age, sex, and weekly consumption. The launch coincides with updated Canadian alcohol guidelines emphasizing the health risks of alcohol and recommending minimal consumption.
With one of the year’s booziest holidays under revellers’ belts and pledges of a Dry January underway, a University of Victoria institute is launching a new website that allows people to see the impact of drinking on their personal health. Users of the new website, knowalcohol.
ca, can enter their age, sex and how much they drink per week and calculate their individualized risk of several alcohol-related diseases, the cigarette equivalency of their liquor consumption, and minutes of life lost per drink. Dr. Tim Naimi, director of UVic’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, said one of the things the website aims to do is to keep Canada’s guidelines on alcohol consumption top of mind “because, in general, we’d all be better off if Canadians drank a bit less.” The website launch comes two years after the work of 20 scientists from 16 institutions was published as Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health, replacing previous guidelines in place since 2011. The guidance indicates no amount of alcohol is safe and slashes the amount of drinks considered a low health risk for disease to two a week from two a day. The moderate risk zone is three to six drinks a week and high risk seven or more standard drinks per week. “The safest level is none or very low amounts,” Naimi said. “The science is very consistent that when it comes to health, alcohol is unhealthy, and the less you drink, the better in terms of health.” Published in January 2023, the updated guidelines make it clear alcohol is a carcinogen associated with several cancers — including breast, colon, rectum, mouth and throat, esophagus, and larynx — as well as heart and liver disease, dementia and lower-respiratory infections. Naimi, who was on the expert panel that formulated Canada’s new alcohol guidelines, is also on a scientific panel creating similar guidelines for the United States, expected to be published soo
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