Hi. Hope you can help or point me in right direction to more reading on this.
My oncologist explained that alcohol and sugar are two of the food stuffs to avoid as much as possible in order to reduce risk of my breast cancer retuning. So I drink non-alcohol beer and lager quite frequently instead of alcohol. But I am wondering as some of these are made by fermenting and then removing the alcohol content whether there is still the same or similar risk attached as if they still had the alcohol content.
Do you know or have any advice / links to research on this please.
Many thanks
Mandy
Hey, believe it or not, I am actually a brewer. The beers are all made differently. The big breweries make it as per their normal recipe and then de-alcoholise it -usually. The wee guys brew it so that it doesn’t ferment to the same abv. Both styles contain sugar with lagers having much less sugar in them.
Hi there was a documentary type programme on channel 4 or 5, only last night about alcohol free drinks. They talk about the sugar content and the method, as mentioned in the other post, and the obligatory taste tests. It will be on one of the play back channels.
Sorry just noticed question was for nurses.
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@Scoobie while having chemo my taste changed and so stopped drinking alcohol and swapped to non alcoholic drinks. I’ve continued, trying faux gin, beer, and wines, bit of trial and error to what you like and the cost. Many are much lower calorie than alcoholic drinks. As already mentioned there was a programme on Channel 4 last night.
It was interesting all the different ways they are produced, and my take was the mocktails are more likely to be higher in sugar than other non alcoholic drinks
If you read the cans or bottles of beer, theres less calories in alcohol free as a rule and no more sugars. A 440ml can of alcohol free guiness has I think 74kCals - not bad really, and one of the better alcohol free drinks.
Its the alcohol that increases oestrogen in the body as your liver processes the alcohol rather than the hormones I’ve read, so no, they are much better.
Having less sugar is just about general health advice and reducing chances of being overweight. Any suggestion that sugar directly feeds cancer is just BS really.
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Hi Scoobie
Thanks for posting.
Evidence around alcohol, sugar and breast cancer risk can be confusing. As @fimac1 has suggested different producers may use different methods which in turn might affect the sugar content.
As well as our information about Healthy eating after breast cancer treatment, you might be interested in our information about alcohol, sugar and breast cancer recurrence.
The World Cancer Research Fund produce information about alcohol free drinks. They also have a Cancer and nutrition helpline where you can speak to or email an Oncology Specialist Dietitian.
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