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Alcohol linked to aging and cancer Researchers in Italy say alcohol has been linked at the cellular level to aging and cancer. Lead author Dr. Andrea Baccarelli of the University of Milan in Italy and colleagues suggest alcohol may accelerate the shortening of regions of DNA found at the end of chromosomes -- known as telomeres. "All the cells in our body have a biological clock in telomeres," said Baccarelli. Baccarelli and colleagues measured serum DNA among 59 participants who abused alcohol -- 22 percent consumed four or more alcoholic drinks per day -- as well as 197 participants with varying alcohol consumption habits. The two groups were similar in age, diet, exercise, stress and other factors affecting telomere length, but the heavy drinkers had telomere lengths nearly half as long as those who did not abuse alcohol. "The decrease we found in telomere length is very sharp, and we were surprised to find such a strong effect at the cellular level," Baccarelli said. Telomere shortening is thought to increase cancer risk and the researchers speculated those with shorter telomeres due to alcohol would have an increased risk of cancer, the study said. The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 101st annual meeting Washington. Dr. Cinque's comments: This study got very little press. I didn't see any mention of it on Reuters, and I check Reuters Health every day. I didn't see it reported on network or cable news; I didn't hear about it on the radio; and it never made the bullet list on Yahoo. Yet, whenever there is a positive report about alcohol- usually claiming that it protects against heart disease- it gets top billing everywhere. Why the double standard? It's because these news organizations know that people like getting good news about their bad habits. Plus, the hypocrisy of keeping marijuana and other drugs illegal while alcohol can be bought and sold freely has got to be justified. Therefore, alcohol as health beverage became a necessity in the War on Drugs. But, shortened telomeres are the most substantial and concrete evidence of biological aging that we know of. So, this is big. And if alcohol is shortening telomeres, it means that it is having a destructive, age-accelerating effect on every cell in the body. E-mail to a friend Previous Article