New Safe Alcohol Limits? My Arse

[Tracey Suntan-King]

So now it seems that men can only safely drink 14 units per week, the same limit as for women.

The government health bods have gone further and advised that there is no "safe" level of alcohol consumption.

In fact drinking more could increase your risk of cancer by, ooh.......1%

Don't know about anyone else but I'm prepared to take that risk

Seriously though, how can they expect anyone to take public health guidelines seriously when they change so often and are so arbitrary?

In other news Black Pudding is now a SUPERFOOD. It's true. You can't get enough of it
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And what a coincidence that the BMA discovered this and informed all the news outlets of this breaking news on New Years Day, just in time for everyone's New Years Resolutions?
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[arry]

Oct / Nov / Dec turned into an absolute alcohol induced coma for me. I don't think there was a single day without alcohol and there were some seriously heavy sessions in there.

I'm now on day 11 without a drink (yes, including NYE) and obviously everyone says you'll feel healthier for it, you'll lose weight, your skin will be better, you'll sleep better and I'd have never have believed them without trying it......


So now I've tried it and I can confirm:
Weight - to the ounce the same as before
Skin - spottier
Sleep - harder to get to
Health - still feel as crap as I always did

Now, where did I leave that bottle opener.

[arry]

[Im-a-Ridah]

It's probably a good limit for someone drinking every day as a medical guideline. The issue with alcohol and other drugs though is not so much the quantity on a given day, but the regularity of it. This advice is also meant to cover quite a wide range of people, some of whom will be much more sensitive to alcohol. It's fairly obvious that this does not represent the maximum you can possibly drink without suffering damage.

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[stinkwheel]

I stopped drinking for a bit because I was worried about feeling shite in the mornings.

One morning I was driving in to work thinking "Hope I don't get stopped by the police on the way in. Might still be over the limit.". Then I realised I hadn't had a drink for nearly a month.

Turns out, I'm just crap at mornings.

Bought a breathalyser recently for morning after purposes.

Turns out, I'm just crap at mornings.

Also turns out I'm a walking alcohol metabolising machine. Something that has been confirmed by the readings I got from the coppers on the couple of occasions I've been stopped having had a drink (Blew 0.35 after three pints of cobra). I think this could be hereditary. My grandad could famously blow clear on the old "bag" breathalysers despite having blatantly polished off half a bottle of whisky.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

My wise old Mum has always said, "It's a long night if you don't have a drink."
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[arry]

Lolz
https://newsthump.com/2016/01/08/men-to-tell-doctors-they-now-drink-just-14-units-a-week/

[Rogerborg]

Without a little de-inhibition, you'll live both longer, and less.
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[Raffles]

I'll be taking as much notice of the new guidelines as I did of the previous ones.
After all, the lyingcunts simply made up the old ones.
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[Ste]

How interesting.

Alternatively, you can drink alcohol and eat bacon sandwiches.

[andym]

Saw about this on the news today and thought what a load of bollocks, yet another thing to add to the list of things that cause cancer.... when will they realise it's air that's to blame, remove that and you remove the chance of cancer completely

[-Matt-]

Its such a relief the same caring and concerned government and their ''health advisors'' aren't busy shaving the remaining slithers of skin off already decomposing alcohol-support services; what with alcohol suddenly being considered as a more significant risk to many people that have been being told its generally 'okay' for a while .
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[Polarbear]

It's not that you live longer, it just feels like it.

I presume these people know that if everyone stops smoking and drinking the government will tax keeping fit
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[stinkwheel]

I'm in a quandry now.

The government says I shouldn't drink but Nigel Farrage says I should have a glass of something at lunchtime.

Whos oppinion do I respect least?
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[Polarbear]

i am dead.

I had seven cans of Stella last night and am writing this from beyond the grave.






I'm not really Mr H&S
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[Rogerborg]

Indeed. But increasing taxes disproportionately hikes the price on the expensive booze which is exactly what jakeys aren't drinking. Euromongs mong it up again.
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