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Safe alcohol limits
By Marisa Wright
Today, an organisation representing hotels and pubs in Australia has come out to bag the new recommendations on safe alcohol use. The old guideline was 4 drinks a day for men and 2 for women. The new guideline is 2 drinks a day for everyone. The cynical attitude is to say, "well they wouldn't like it, would they?" But I have to say, I agree with them. The old guidelines were based on the effects of alcohol on the body. We all know too much alcohol kills brain cells and puts a strain on the liver, among other things. Women being generally smaller, they are more affected. I may not have been very good at sticking to the guidelines sometimes, but I knew they made sense. The new guidelines are different. They add up ALL the statistics for sickness, injuries and death associated with alcohol - not just liver or brain damage, but accidents caused by people driving or using machinery while under the influence, drunk pedestrians killed in traffic accidents, drunks falling asleep in their chair and setting themselves alight with their cigarette, and so on and on. They then average all that out to arrive at the new guideline. But it makes no sense to average these statistics. If I'm a fifty-mumble woman sitting at home having a drink in front of the TV, I'm at NO risk of having a car accident, getting caught in a lathe or being knocked down by a bus. I don't smoke so I'm not going to set myself alight. So what sense does it make to include those risks, when deciding how much is safe for me to drink? Besides, while I agree that even mild intoxication can affect driving skills, many of those deaths and injuries are to seriously drunk people. For me, one beer and half a bottle of wine constitutes a blinder - so again, some of the risks don't apply to me. What worries me is that people will dismiss them and then ignore the REAL information on what's safe to drink, as it affects them. |
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