There are mixed views about alcohol in the keto world for a variety of reasons. Many such beverages are low-to-moderate in carb content. But that doesn’t mean that alcohol is inherently good for you, again for a variety of reasons.
So the US Surgeon General’s advisory today will likely be of interest to this keto forum readership…
A quick read suggests that this newly reported correlation link between alcohol consumption (even at what are described as moderate levels of 1 daily drink/women and 2 daily drinks/men) and various forms of cancer is based on epidemiologically-based observations in the case of humans - and with causation pathways inferred by controlled animal studies.
No doubt this new pronouncement by the Surgeon General will garner lots of buzz … with teetotalers, bev companies and lobbyists, restaurants & pubs, abstinence & recovery groups, and most teenagers and their parents.
The full report pdf is slightly too large to upload (roughly 3meg) so for your convenience, here’s a direct link:
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/oash-alcohol-cancer-risk.pdf
I’ll spend some time with it in hopes of better understanding how meaningfully accurate the media headline reports will be - and also eager to hear the perspectives of others on this forum who might be inclined to have closer look at the underlying science.
Cheers!