How much do you drink?

I never used to drink unless at a party and even then not very much.

Seem to have gained a bit of an addiction to JD/Soco+zero coke/pepsi alternatives over the first half of this year. I always go for the ones such as the tesco own brands without the caramel colouring as that's been proven to cause cancer. I can get through 4 units in the above twice a week, probably not an issue but I do need to keep it in check :)
 
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Avenged7Fold said:
Drinking every day is only a problem if you drink enough to effect your health, work-life or family life.

There is nothing wrong with a drink every day if your body/wallet/missus is perfectly capable of handling it. Three pints a day may seem like a lot but to be honest, i swear it was proven that up to 13 units a day can be drank without harm to health, given the rate of which it is drank.

It is not the amount that harms you but the amount given the rate you drink. Your liver is put under more stress if it has to sort out a bottle of wine in an hour compare to that bottle of wine in 3.
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Not quite correct, but not far off. There is - "officially" at least - no safe level of alcohol consumption. Common sense would suggest that a thimble full of weak lager per day is extremely unlikely to cause you any perceivable harm. This being said, there's obviously a level of drinking where it becomes more accepted that harm will be caused, and a pint a day is definitely within that according to the UK Chief Medical Officers.

Give the Alcohol Guidelines Review (Jan 2016) a read. The bits that are relevant to this discussion are:

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Drinking alcohol even at low levels contributes to a wide range of health harms, to a range of diseases and to hospital admissions. Hence, there is no level of drinking that can be recommended as completely safe long term, and advice to the public should be clear that many of these risks can be reduced by drinking at levels below the 14 unit weekly guideline limit, or by not drinking at all.
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The evidence on the ‘long term health risks’ from regularly drinking alcohol has continued to develop over the last 2 decades, particularly confirming the importance of alcohol in the development of cancers including breast cancer; and in identifying its contribution to the risk of diseases even at low levels of use. Although there is clearly a level of drinking that can be described as low risk, it is now much more evident there is no completely safe level. This link with their alcohol use may not be obvious to the person affected. For example, even an individual who may have a potential greater life expectancy of a number of months in old age (for example, as a result of drinking around 1 unit daily), may have required extensive treatment for an alcohol-related cancer (with some risk of death) that they could otherwise have avoided. It is important to quantify any such risks to assist the public in making choices.
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Way too much.

Basically every weekend but I'm looking to drastically reduce this. That said, I have been to the gym 54 days out of the 132 days we have had so far this year and keep myself in good shape.

I can't remember the last time I went a week without a drink.
 
Some weeks nothing, lately a 500ml bottle of lager a couple of times a week. If I'm at a weekend event where everyone is drinking then it can get a bit silly.
I drink nothing like I did when I was young, when I worked 5-6 nights a week and drink upwards of 15 pints on my nights off.
It's not unusual for me to go for months without alcohol, I like it, but don't particularly miss it.
 
Beer
Bubbles
White
Red
Scotch
The above nearly 7x a week

Best shape of my life, no idea what its doing to my insides but I feel great
 
SuperBOB said:
Beer
Bubbles
White
Red
Scotch
The above nearly 7x a week

Best shape of my life, no idea what its doing to my insides but I feel great
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You're Aussie though, this thread need not apply. :p

(No offence meant, I'm half Aussie with family still out there!)
 
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