{"id":14131,"date":"2025-04-25T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14131"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:20:01","slug":"moderate-drinking-health-risks-alcohol-j-curve-myth-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/moderate-drinking-health-risks-alcohol-j-curve-myth-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Moderate Drinking is Healthy? Think Again."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How dangerous could one beer be?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAK58BIUgdk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Recent studies challenge the idea that moderate drinking has health benefits, showing that even small amounts of alcohol may increase the risk of heart disease and cancer. Large-scale analyses and genetic studies now indicate no protective effects, with health risks varying based on individual factors. Public health experts recommend transparency over prohibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent studies challenge the idea that moderate drinking has health benefits, showing that even small amounts of alcohol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/1552630\/pexels-photo-1552630.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[8237,8243,8242,8230,8241,8234,8235,7118,8233,8231,8240,8239,8229,8236,8232,8238,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-body","8":"category-math-and-the-sciences","9":"tag-alcohol-and-cancer-link","10":"tag-alcohol-and-disease-prevention-myths","11":"tag-alcohol-and-heart-disease-risk","12":"tag-alcohol-j-curve-myth","13":"tag-alcohol-risk-context","14":"tag-flaws-in-alcohol-studies","15":"tag-genetic-studies-on-alcohol","16":"tag-howtown","17":"tag-mendelian-randomization-alcohol","18":"tag-meta-analysis-alcohol-effects","19":"tag-misclassified-abstainers-bias","20":"tag-moderate-alcohol-consumption-science","21":"tag-moderate-drinking-health-risks","22":"tag-no-safe-level-of-alcohol","23":"tag-public-health-alcohol-transparency","24":"tag-rethinking-alcohol-guidelines","25":"tag-youtube","26":"post_format-post-format-video","27":"cs-entry","28":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14132,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions\/14132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}