To Drink or Not to Drink: Can Data Help Us Decide?
Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
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The Relationship Between Alcohol and Cancer
As people go through the 20 thirties, forties and then 60 seventies, the relative risk of being exposed to different health outcomes, changes anso ha. The relationship between alcohol and all cancers that we have explored, to the best of our knowledge right now, is harmful. And so if youare looking at an entire population and you want to max mise health or minimize health lost due to alcohol, then the best for your population would be for younger people to not drink and for middle aged people to drink in moderation. But i think this point is the one wherethe some differences in our interpretation of the world's data.
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