{"id":1063,"date":"2018-01-10T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2018-01-10T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:54:11","slug":"drinking-alcohol-raises-risk-of-cancer-by-snapping-dna-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/drinking-alcohol-raises-risk-of-cancer-by-snapping-dna-scientists-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking alcohol raises risk of cancer by snapping DNA, scientists find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">D<\/span>rinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer by damaging DNA, scientists have discovered for the first time, leading health experts to call for people to cut down on their consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol is contributes to more than 12,000 cases of cancer each year in Britain, but nobody had shown why it was so harmful.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">Now a new study by the\u00a0Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology\u00a0at\u00a0Cambridge University, has found that when the body processes alcohol it produces a chemical called acetaldehyde which is harmful to DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The damage happens in blood stem cells, which create the red and white blood cells that carry oxygen through the body and help fight infections.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that acetaldehyde snaps the DNA of stem cells, permanently altering the genetic code and triggering cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/01\/03\/drinking-alcohol-raises-risk-cancer-snapping-dna-scientists\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer by damaging DNA, scientists have discovered for the first time, leading health experts to call for people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,60,109,118],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-alcohol","tag-cancer","tag-diet","tag-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}