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There is no safe limit on alcohol consumption, a new study has found. Scientists have suggested that completely eliminating booze from your diet is the only way to avoid risking your health.

However, other research recommended moderate levels of alcohol, and found drinking one drink a day for women and two for men, might even protect against heart disease.

However, authors of the research published in the Lancet, say there is no benefit from drinking alcohol, as any potential positive impacts are outweighed by the harmful effects.

According to The Independent' newspaper, Dr Max Griswold, the lead researcher from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said: "Previous studies have found a protective effect of alcohol on some conditions, but we found the combined health risks associated with alcohol increase with any amount of alcohol."

A pastor who nearly died after a snake bit him has vowed to keep handling the reptiles. During a sermon in Middlesboro, Kentucky, Cody Coots was holding a timber rattlesnake which lodged its top fangs above his ear with the lower fangs biting into the organ itself, leaving him unsteady and nauseous.

A member of the congregation took him to hospital where doctors revealed the snake came close to severing his temporal artery.

However Coots told staff the near fatal injury would not stop him from picking up the animal.

Coots' father, Jamie Coots, 42, was killed by the same species of timber rattlesnake. The snakes are North America's most fearsome because of their large size and high venom yield.

The death of senior Coots meant that 21-year-old Cody was left to fulfil the role, making him the fourth generation to take up the snake-handling vocation.

Snake-handling churches appeared in the US more than 100 years ago, and are based on the biblical verse Mark 16:18, where Jesus said true believers will be able to "pick up snakes with their hands and when they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all".