20-Jun-2007, 06:50 PM
Experts believe the modern rise in consumption of alcohol will lead to an epidemic of liver problems in a few years time. Most people know the UK govt's recommendations for safe consumption are 21 units a week for men and 14 for women, but how many of us know that a large glass of red wine is equivalent to 3 units of alcohol?
There have always been heavy drinkers around, but it does worry me when I hear the younger ones at work talking about how much booze they have on a night out. On a work function recently, one person had already had half a bottle of wine before she set out and then was buying alcopops for herself two at a time and must have drunk 9 or 10 WKDs before the evening was over. And she is not a lone case. There truly does seem to be an alcoholic time bomb ticking in this country.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2106246,00.html
There have always been heavy drinkers around, but it does worry me when I hear the younger ones at work talking about how much booze they have on a night out. On a work function recently, one person had already had half a bottle of wine before she set out and then was buying alcopops for herself two at a time and must have drunk 9 or 10 WKDs before the evening was over. And she is not a lone case. There truly does seem to be an alcoholic time bomb ticking in this country.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2106246,00.html