Study says there's absolutely nothing healthy about alcohol

For the study, researchers looked at levels of alcohol consumption among 15-year-olds to 95-year-olds, and consequent health effects in 195 countries between 1990 and 2016.

Using this massive dataset, they compared non-drinkers to people who drank different levels of alcohol daily.

Notably, the researchers claimed that their study was the most significant till date owing to the vast number of factors included in it.

Analyzing data, researchers found that among 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would anyway develop alcohol-related health problems like cancer, or suffer injuries.

However, for people who drank one alcoholic drink a day, the number would be 918.

For people who drank two alcoholic drinks daily, the number would be 977.

Notably, for people who drank more than five alcoholic drinks a day, the number was 1,252.

While earlier studies had found that drinking limited quantities of alcohol could have beneficial effects for heart health, the Global Burden of Disease study contests that.

"The strong association between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer, injuries, and infectious diseases offset the protective effects for heart disease in our study," said lead author of the study, Dr. Max Griswold.

Apart from the grim findings, the study had other interesting data to offer.

In terms of drinking habits of men, the study found that men in Romania, averaging 8+ drinks a day, drank the most among men in the 195 countries surveyed.

Romania was followed by Portugal, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Estonia, Spain, and Hungary to make the top 10.

In terms of drinking habits of women, the study found that women in Ukraine topped the rest of the world, consuming an average of over 4 alcoholic drinks a day - half of what men in Romania drank.

Andorra, Luxembourg, Belarus, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland made up the rest of the top 10.