Sober October<\/a> is an annual fundraising and awareness event run by MacMillan Cancer Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By going alcohol-free for a month, you’ll feel some benefits straight away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And a break from drinking might help reset your alcohol habits, and boost your long-term health too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the MacMillian website, you can sign up and start raising money<\/a> to help people with cancer. It takes two minutes to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are benefits to you as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find out about some more benefits on Macmillan’s wellbeing blog.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a clear link between alcohol and high blood pressure. This puts pressure on your heart and increases the risk of a heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regular drinking over a long period can also damage your liver, nervous system and brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In recent years, there has been more evidence about the link between alcohol and cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alcohol gets broken down in the body into harmful chemicals. These damage cells and stop them from being able to repair properly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alcohol causes seven types of cancer<\/a>: Mouth, upper throat, larynx (voice box), oesophagus (gullet) breast, liver and bowel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reducing your alcohol intake reduces your risk of these cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you or someone you know needs alcohol support visit the NHS website<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will You Go Sober for October? Sober October is an annual fundraising and awareness event run by MacMillan Cancer Support. By going alcohol-free for a month, you’ll feel some benefits straight away. And a break from drinking might help reset your alcohol habits, and boost your long-term health too. Perks of going sober On the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,129,190,288],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-heart-disease","tag-cancer","tag-blood-pressure","tag-alcohol"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 00:47:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-pcn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Perks of going sober<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Alcohol and your health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n