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Vol. 41 No. 3 June 2015 Contents (Click on an item/ page no. to be taken directly to your choice of article) News from around the world 2 The moderating role of cognitive capacities in the Medical News association between social norms and drinking behaviours 17 Fibre intake may modify the association of alcohol consumption with certain hormone-dependent Behaviour change techniques in popular alcohol cancers 3 reduction apps Why are the harmful effects of alcohol consumption A new genetic-epidemiological design applied to drug abuse, alcohol use disorders, and criminal greater among people with low education and 18 income? 6 behaviour Prospective evaluation of alcohol consumption Modes of daily caffeine consumption among and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 adolescents and the practice of mixing alcohol with mutation carriers energy drinks: relationships to drunkenness 19 Higher usual alcohol consumption was associated Update on Alcohol statistics for England with a lower 41-year mortality risk from coronary Drinkaware Monitor 2014: Adults’ drinking 21 artery disease in men 10 behaviour and attitudes in the UK Joint and independent effect of alcohol and tobacco Review of late -night levy called for in UK use on the risk of subsequent cancer incidence Loi Evin changed against French government advice among cancer survivors 11 Drinkaware 2014 Underage Drinking Campaign Mediterranean diet and risk of endometrial cancer – Summary Evaluation 22 Anti-inflammatory effect of white wine in CKD Drink-driving in Scotland down by almost 20% as patients and healthy volunteers 12 tough new ‘one drink’ limits take effect The role of alcohol consumption in regulating UK Road Traffic Act amendment circulating levels of adiponectin Drinking among British Women and its impact on Does beer, wine or liquor consumption correlate their pedestrian and driving activities 23 with the risk of renal cell carcinoma? 13 European Alcohol And Health Forum- 16th Plenary Genomewide association study for maximum Meeting - EU Alcohol Strategy discussion 24 number of alcoholic drinks in European Americans Italy – government campaign against underage and African Americans drinking 25 Consumption of beer and colorectal cancer Campaign to deter parents from providing alcohol incidence: a meta-analysis of observational studies 14 to their teens in US Moderate alcohol consumption diminishes the Report on college aged drinking and social media development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease European Sponsorship Association and Alcohol (NAFLD) Policy 26 Exploring the motives and mental health correlates AB Inbev have published their annual Global of intentional food restriction prior to alcohol use in Citizenship report university students National Prevention Week in US Moderate wine intake improves metabolic profile for Activated coasters encourage responsible drinking type 2 diabetes 15 with domestic violence reminder 27 Maternal alcohol consumption before and during Progress on reducing drinking and driving in six pregnancy and the risks of congenital heart defects countries – new IARD e-book in offspring Temporal changes in alcohol-related morbidity and Social and Policy News mortality in Germany 28 Personal and perceived peer use of and attitudes AIM Council Member awarded The French Order of toward alcohol among students in seven EU Agricultural Merit Countries 16 Australian Good Sports programme reduces risky The use of the internet for prevention of binge drinking drinking among the college population www.aim-digest.com www.drinkingandyou.com www.alcoholinmoderation.com www.talkaboutalcohol.com www.drinkingandyou.com NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AIM Digest Frampton House Portugal Europe Frampton, Dorchester At the end of April, the Portuguese Scandinavian airline SAS has Dorset DT2 9NH government approved a new law announced new guidelines T: +44 (0)1300 320 869 that bans the sale of all alcohol designed to limit passengers E: [email protected] to under-18s, extending the travelling within Europe to Websites: prohibition to beer and wine, three alcoholic drinks per flight, www.alcoholinmoderation.com which until now could legally be following problems with drunk www.drinkingandyou.com purchased by youngsters aged 16 passengers last summer. The www.alcoholforum4profs.org or 17. airline is the region’s biggest carrier and is part owned by the Swedish, AIM Subscription Levels: The measure, approved at a cabinet meeting, replaces Danish and Norwegian states. Individual: GBP 900- USD 1,250- legislation in force since 2013. In June, the airline company Euro 1000- Paul Macedo, Minister for Health, Jet2 also announced a new said the change makes more “hardline” against any disruptive Silver: GBP 1,500- USD 2,500- sense. “With this change, this or inappropriate behaviour from Euro 2,000- new legislation allows for better passengers on its flights following controls and a clearer message a rise in drunken incidents on Gold: GBP £3,000- in public spaces and in access to board. Earlier this year, Ryanair USD 5,000- Euro 4,000- drinks by adolescents,” he said. also announced a ban on duty free alcohol between Glasgow Platinum: available on request. Czech Republic Prestwick and Ibiza, a notorious Please contact Sherry.Webster@aim- party route, after repeated rowdy digest.com for information about In the Czech Republic, children are behaviour raised fears over AIM’s subscription levels. to be protected from alcohol by a passenger safety. Please make cheques/drafts in new bill that has been drafted by British pounds sterling, dollars or Euros payable to AIM Digest at the the Health Ministry and is waiting above address for the cabinet´s approval. The bill, Iran Helena Conibear – Executive Director which also applies to smoking and The Iran Health Ministry has T: +44 (0)1300 320 869 illegal drugs, is to take effect as announced plans to open 150 E: [email protected] from 2016, if passed by parliament. alcohol treatment centres Alison Rees - Editor The bill increases the sanctions acknowledging the scale of abuse E: [email protected] for selling alcohol to children and in a country where drinking is Sherry Webster – Finance and bans the sale of alcohol by vending illegal. A ministry’s spokesman Subscriptions machines. Internet sales will be said the day centres would provide E: [email protected] allowed with age verification. special settings and educational courses to help people give up The publisher takes reasonable care to The sale of alcohol would be ensure the accuracy of quotations and other banned in health centres, schools, alcohol. Six of the centres to be information contained herein, but is not opened by March 2016 would also responsible for any errors or omissions. at children´s events, at open-air Opinions and recommendations quoted stands and markets, and sports provide in-patient detoxification. herein are usually excerpted, digested or condensed, may be edited for continuity, events. (although at sports events It is estimated that around 200,000 and are only part of the opinions and beer will be exempted from the Iranians have an alcohol problem recommendations expressed in the original sources, which should be consulted for details. ban). despite a ban on drinking since © AIM Digest 2001. All rights reserved. According to the latest OECD the Islamic revolution of 1979. Material may be reproduced with attribution There is an exemption for Iran’s to AIM. report, the number of 15-year-old children who have drunk alcohol Christian minority, which is increased from 70 to 94% in the allowed to produce wine for use in Czech Republic in 2002-2012, mass. However, liquor is produced which is the highest level of all illicitly and is also smuggled in countries surveyed. from other countries, particularly Turkey and Kurdish parts of Iraq. www.alcoholinmoderation.com www.talkaboutalcohol.com www.drinkingandyou.com AIM MEDICAL NEWS Fibre intake may modify the association of alcohol consumption with certain hormone-dependent cancers Chhim A-S, Fassier P, Latino-Martel P, Druesne-Pecollo Forum Comments N, Zelek L, Duverger L, Hercberg S, Galan P, Deschasaux The positive association between alcohol intake and M, Touvier M. Prospective association between alcohol intake and hormone dependent cancer risk: modulation certain hormone-dependent cancers (e.g., breast, by dietary fibre intake. Amer J Clin Nutr 2015; pre- prostate) noted in some studies has been attributed publication. Doi: 10.3945/ajcn.114.098418. to the effect of alcohol through an increase in levels of estrogen and other hormones. Higher intake of Authors’ Abstract alcohol has been shown to increase estrogen levels Background: Alcohol intake is associated with increased in women, although the effects of light drinking are circulating concentrations of sex hormones, which in less clear. turn may increase hormone dependent cancer risk. This association may be modulated by dietary fibre intake, which The present study had extensive dietary data has been shown to decrease steroid hormone bioavailability on more than 5,000 men and women in France (decreased blood concentration and increased sex hormone– in a clinical trial of the effects of antioxidant binding globulin concentration). However, this potential vitamin supplementation for 8 years on the risk of modulation has not been investigated in any prospective cardiovascular disease and cancer developing during cohort. a 12-year follow-up period. Comparisons were made Objectives: Our objectives were to study the