Have YOU had your breakfast pint? Boffins confirm cheeky daily tipple is good for you A major study of Americans has punched another hole in the official British government medical advice that there's no "safe level" of drinking. The cohort study of around 100,000 individuals found that infrequent drinkers and teetotallers had an increased risk of mortality. "Combined risk of cancer or death was lowest in …
What is a drink? Why can't they use units like every other sane study?
I'm going to assume it's a British Imperial pint of a DIPA such as https://gipsyhillbrew.com/beers/hepcat-hepcat/
That is about 4 units.
So I need to drink 8 to 12 units a day to improve my health. Maybe I'll skip a day here and there, and move the units to another day, I'm sure that is recommended too.
Yes, but only if your russian...
If you're Russian your average life expectancy is already nine years behind that of the average overweight, pesticide-ridden, environmentally-poisoned, healthcare-deprived American anyway, so hitting the vodka may be one of the few things in life you can genuinely look forward to.
..only if your russian.. ? .. does what ?
What exactly are we talking about your russian doing?, and how did you come to possess a russian..
This would be a different situation if you ARE Russian, but that involves a somewhat different wording..
"Until we know more it's best to assume that a 'drink' is any amount you can hold in one hand."
So i can quite happily consume a half pint of Tactical nuclear penguin every morning?
Excellent, should make the drive into work interesting...if i can find the car that is.
Probably US sized Pints of Bud Light which is as close to gnat's piss as I've ever seen.
Now if the study used 6X, T.E.A. or even Broadside I might be more inclined to believe it.
speaking of T.E.A., memo to self to pop into the Brewery Shop on my way home tonight for some although the Surrey Nirvana is good on hot days.
A standard drink made with hard alky served in a bar is 120 ml. Another way to see it is that a US "standard" drink contains 14 grams of pure alcohol. Standard beer serving is 12 fl oz (US) at 5%. Wine standard is five ounces at 12% ABV, and 1.5 ounces distilled booze at 80 proof (40% ABV).
>Actually the link does give the amount, but in strange US units. It seems like 30 drinks worth of wine is enough to crush an australian beer can according to the reg converter. Just over 140ml per drink.
If that's "standard" wine, then 1 drink per this study is ~1.5 units.
100ml of "standard" wine = 1 unit of alcohol (10gm or ~14ml)
What is a drink?
Depends on the beverage. A beer.. 16 oz. "Hard liquor".. depends on the type and what is mixed into it. Wine.. a 12 oz. glass. Now these may and will vary depending on where one is in the States, who's pouring or mixing the drink, etc. Beer is iffy due to different size cans/bottles, and even mugs. There is no standard so 1 drink is still vague.
"There is no standard so 1 drink is still vague."
To say nothing of the fact that alcohol, the substance that the teetotalers are concerned[0] about, varies from around 2% up to over 50% in drinks that are still called "beer" or "wine".
[0] For values of "concern" that equal "somebody, somewhere, is enjoying themselves and we can't have that!".
>What is a drink? Why can't they use units like every other sane study?
>I'm going to assume it's a British Imperial pint of a DIPA such as https://gipsyhillbrew.com/beers/hepcat-hepcat/
>That is about 4 units.
>So I need to drink 8 to 12 units a day to improve my health.
Actually, it's 6.
That's the units/day that hits peak longevity. But you can have up to 13/day before you regress again to teetotaller level. See my comment below.
"What is a drink? Why can't they use units like every other sane study?"
According to a blood alcohol chart that I found online, "one drink" is "1.25 oz. of 80 proof liquor, 12 oz. of beer, or 5 oz. of table wine." So not quite 1 shot (1.5oz) of distilled liquor, a bit less than a pint of ale.
YMMV based on lots of things. These are units made up by the bunch that created blood alcohol charts for DUI arrests and DMV regs and things like that.
Well, it looks as though your best all round bet might be to have a drink roughly every other day. Which is close to infrequent drinking by my rules.
Better news is that around 5 drinks a day doesn't seem to increase your risk.
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As it's Friday it is time to channel (modify) a bit of Morecambe and Wise.
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How often do you go to the pub for a drink?
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Infrequently.
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Is that one word or two?
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Oh, go on, since it is Friday.
After reading this report I won't be drinking any more.
Then again I won't be drinking any less.
The study used lifetime intakes, based on intakes at various ages. This means that people who drank heavily then quit due to illness would still have their intakes recorded and are unlikely to be in the infrequent drink category unless they quit very young.
I usually drink once a week to kill off the weeks stress, usually necking (over the course of the night) a single bottle of neat rum (no silly coke or ice added, just straight up 40% Vol Rum).
Looks like I'm still within my two a day! I never open a second bottle!
The advantage is it only makes me tipsy and I don't end up overly drunk, just enough to relax, I knew I was doing something right!
Interestingly 'neat' spirits is absorbed into the system more slowly that the optimum alcohol strength of 20% ( ie half diluted standard UK whisky). I have heard if you drink spirits neat then the stomach in some people can produce an enzyme that breaks down the alcohol so in some ways its better to have the odd glass of water to get the full benefit.
It always used to baffle me how I could sit down and neck a bottle of spirits and yet a lot less alcohol in the form of beer had a far more noticeable effect.
The NHS budget is already badly over-stretched. Now doctors will be asked to prescribe a daily pint or two.
Anyone remember the old Milk Marketing Board and "Drinka Pinta Milka Day"? (And that was before the days of semi-skimmed)
Time for a new campaign "Drinka Pinta FirklestonesOldSkullcrackera Day"
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