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The warnings will come as a huge worry to millions of middle class Britons who enjoy a glass or two of wine each night believing that they are not harming their health.

Many even think they are doing themselves good after doctors extolled the benefits of a glass of red wine at night, claiming that it could protect them against heart disease.

But the research has shown that even drinking within the Government’s health guidelines of two units a day for women – one large glass of wine, or a pint of normal strength beer – or three units for men could prove to be dangerous.

Bowel (or colon or colorectal) cancer is the third most common cancer (after lung and breast cancers).

Gee, then drinking or not drinking wine daily will just be a choice of the lesser evil between heart disease and colon cancer.

This finding must really hurt all the wine-lovers out there. What should we do then? Take a sip of two after each dinner, or only have wine on weekends or say Friday nights only?

Read the full report.

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Two Glasses of Wine Daily and Risk of Colon Cancer

Examining data on 7,500 people who were involved in two UK trials conducted in the 1970s and the 1980s and were randomly assigned to receive 300, 500 or 1,200mg of aspirin per day for a period of seven years (against placebo) found that:

• 300mg of aspirin per day for five years was associated with a 75 percent reduction in the risk of developing bower cancer in the next decade
• aspirin was found effective regardless of the sex, age or race of the participants

An accompanying review of 30 other studies also found that aspirin exerted a protective effect against bowel cancer in 50 to 60 percent of the cases.

Such were the findings recently reported in the journal The Lancet.

According to lead researcher Professor Peter Rothwell:

“What we are saying is that for a subgroup of people at high risk of bowel cancer, they probably aren’t going to be dramatically harmed by taking aspirin. They may have some risk of bleeding in the stomach, but they will see potentially significant benefits in the reduction of their colon cancer risk.”

Read the full report.

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