New research has found that drinking white wine could increase the risk of melanoma.
A study published in the Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention tracked the drinking habits of more than 210,000 Caucasian men and women over 18.
It found that those who drank one glass of white wine a day increased their melanoma risk by 13 per cent.
Unlike red wine, whites reportedly don’t contain the antioxidants that can mitigate the cancer-causing chemicals in wine.
“I would have expected both red and white wines to have very similar findings,” Dr. Hooman Khorasani from Mount Sinai Health System told CBS.
“I would not necessarily stop drinking completely,” Khorasani said. “I don’t think the data are strong enough to support that.”
Dr Max Gomez from CBS also pointed out that the survey is a statistical association — “meaning it does not prove cause and effect”.
The correlation with white wine could be a fluke, Dr Gomez said.
