Genoa, sos di Testino: “Drinking alcohol causes cancer like smoking” – Primocanale.it
GENOA – “Next week the European Parliament will decide to put on the labels of all spirits, wine, beer and spirits, that alcohol has a chance relationship with cancer.this to give information to all European citizens and especially to consumers of alcoholic beverages, we as an Italian society of alcohol, on request, of course, have sent a document that is circulating in the hands of almost all the parliamentarians of the European parliament ” .
To speak from his studio in pavilion 10 of the San Martino hospital is Gianni Testino, head of Hepatology and the Asl3 alcohol center. His words, as usual, make you think even those who drink alcohol in a moderate way.
“Our hope – explains Testino – is that the law on notices on labels passes, we say this not because we want to prohibit alcoholic beverages but because we want that people when they drink alcohol in a dose dependent manner risk developing some cancers, so the less I drink the better and if I don’t drink the better “.
But the most important thing “is to give this information to children, to our adolescents who can grow up in an alcohol-free world”.
Under accusation is ethanol: “The ethanol at the base of all alcoholic beverages is exactly as carcinogenic as cigarette smoke or other substances that we find in the pollution that we fight every day” assures Testino, “drinking ethanol means having a voluntary risk that we can all avoid, producing wine without ethanol is possible, but I fear that it will not be successful because ethanol is consumed for its psychoactive action which gives one of the pleasures that induce the consumption of drinks alcoholic “.