Now the BBC are at it as well. The day after the article I described in my last Blog entry about drinking a glass of wine increasing your risk of getting throat cancer by 168%, the BBC ran the story on Breakfast.

The story was the same but this time the increase in the chance of getting cancer had decreased to 44%. Just makes you wonder about the accuracy of these figures doesn’t it when major news organisations quote different figures.

Anyway they wheeled out a Cancer Research expert and a Doctor and had a debate on the whether we should all give up drinking wine (as well as, presumeably giving up eating anything at all, not exposing our bodies to external elements, and living the rest of our lives huddled in a ball in a dark corner).

Again there was no mention of the starting figure upon which the 44% increase was meant to be based.

No wonder we live in a world where people are at once frightened and confused about what is good for them and what is not.

Probably best just to enjoy everything in moderation and stop buying newspapers and watching breakfast TV.