HOW SWEET IT IS –
May 29, 2026 – Highly sweetened, flavored alcoholic drinks, often marketed in brightly colored portable containers, may deserve greater attention from hepatologists because they combine concentrated alcohol exposure with substantial metabolic stress, experts warned. “What hepatologists are telling us is that more and more patients are coming into clinic where the problem is no longer alcohol or sugar, it’s both together. It’s an engineered exposure, where alcohol and sugar are being delivered into the body at the same time,” said Catherine Paradis, PhD, technical officer and sociologist at World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, speaking with Medscape News Europe.
