{"id":646891,"date":"2026-10-31T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646891\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:50:07","slug":"what-we-know-about-how-alcohol-contributes-to-breast-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646891\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about how alcohol contributes to breast cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"O5SQGUMZGRDXLJXY2RE4Y45PRA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The deep-rooted notion that a little bit of alcohol isn\u2019t harmful, and may even be good, for your health has been repeatedly debunked by research on everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/03\/31\/moderate-drinking-alcohol-wine-risks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heart disease<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/10\/15\/alcohol-dementia-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dementia<\/a> to mortality, and yes, certain kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/03\/24\/casual-drinking-occasional-cancer-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancer<\/a>. Alcohol raises the risk of developing at least seven types of cancer, and among them, one of the strongest connections is with breast cancer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deep-rooted notion that a little bit of alcohol isn\u2019t harmful, and may even be good, for your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-646891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}