Men should also consume no more than 14 units of alcohol per week, down from the previous 21 units, bringing them into line with the recommendations for women of no more than 14 units a week.
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The government’s Chief Medical Officer has said men and women should now drink no more than 14 units per week – about six pints of average strength beer or seven 175ml glasses of wine. At least, if tough new guidelines on drinking just announced by the UK’s chief medical officers are anything to go by.
Men should drink no more than one pint a day under the first new drinking guidelines to be released in the United Kingdom for 20 years.
If you feel like you had one too many drinks over the winter holiday season – you probably did.
The report from U.K. Department of Health’s Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food said the links between alcohol and cancer were not fully understood, though new research since the original guidelines were issued in 1995 has made the health risk of drinking more clear.
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“The change to the guidelines will turn hundreds of thousands of people into “hazardous drinkers” overnight thereby reviving the moral panic about drinking in Britain and opening the door to yet more nanny state interventions”, Snowdon said.
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Previously, pregnant women in the United Kingdom were told not to drink but, if they did, to limit it – but that last part has become stricter. People who binge drink on one or two days of the week increase their risk of death from long term illnesses and accidents and injuries.
The government’s new alcohol guidelines have also updated what alcohol pregnant women should and shouldn’t consume. Low and moderate alcohol consumption has been linked with cancers, including breast, mouth and bowel.
Drinking a glass of red wine a day might not keep the doctor away after all. It was led by a panel of experts in public health, alcohol studies and behavioural science.
Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said any amount of drinking alcohol, no matter how small, carries a risk.
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Drinking any amount of alcohol regularly raises your risk of cancer, the country’s top doctor says in a shake-up of guidelines. However, in men drinking 15 to 35 units per week, there is an 85 in 1,000 chance they will contract the illness.
