New " safe " drinking limit - 3.5 units a week

[jakarta]

As Uncle Speilberg has already stated the original BMA 21 units per week was a complete guess so a further reduced limit is an even bigger load of bollocks!

Anyway, in defiance of the Medical Profession, I am enjoying a nice glass of Pinot Grigio and may well have another after I have I finished this one.

I realise that this may well be my final post as a consequence, but what the hell.....

 

[Garage_Doors]

Less than 2 pints, 3 small glasses of wine or 4 single spirits a week.

Who in the working world drink this amount? Those that do deserve the concequences.

 

[Peever]

Give me the 'good old days' when Guinness was 'good for you' and doctors recommended you take up smoking. We've just got too much information for our own good these days and are becoming an overly neurotic society. Personally I'd rather take my chances and live the way I want to live (while being careful to avoid being a strain on the NHS of course!)

This 100%. Information is good and all but its at the point now where a study is done to prove anything is harmful for you. Wont be long till walking to much will be considered a health hazard....

 

[BlockDpete]

Of course no one is going to take any notice of this.

There is some sort of report on alcohol/diet everyweek recommending something or another, normally contradicting what was said the week before. Everyone gets confused, so no one really takes any notice.

All things in moderation is really the best advice. Yes I like beer, I like it rather a lot, but then I enjoy running and eating plenty of fruit and veg, so I hope this at least balances things up.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

This 100%. Information is good and all but its at the point now where a study is done to prove anything is harmful for you. Wont be long till walking to much will be considered a health hazard....

I believe breathing is good for you but no doubt an expensive study will conclude one day that in fact breathing is detrimental to your health.

 

[toostonedtocare]

I believe breathing is good for you but no doubt an expensive study will conclude one day that in fact breathing is detrimental to your health.

Very true. But I would not hold your breath.

 

[GT49er]

Shit! That's me dead already then - just haven't realised it yet!

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I believe breathing is good for you but no doubt an expensive study will conclude one day that in fact breathing is detrimental to your health.

It's already a known fact. We obviously need Co2 to breath. But the other combination of chemicals that we breath in every day contain "free radicals" that ultimately break down our body and create the ageing process.
So whatever we do we're f***ed.
My answer?
DRINK DRINK DRINK

 

[Peever]

I believe breathing is good for you but no doubt an expensive study will conclude one day that in fact breathing is detrimental to your health.

 

[Notters]

As an

I believe breathing is good for you but no doubt an expensive study will conclude one day that in fact breathing is detrimental to your health.

As an Air Quality Consultant, I can confirm that this is the case.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Who in the working world drink this amount? Those that do deserve the concequences.

Mormons and Muslims prohibit the consumption of alchohol. Crikey, can you imagine a world populated only by people like the Osmonds and the Taliban.......... horrendous.

 

[MikeySmall]

I like the 5 a day fruit and veg 'campaign' which is dependent on where you live. 7 a day in Australia. 9 a day in the US. Like most things, eat and drink sensibly and do some exercise and you'll be ok. (probably)

 

[Garage_Doors]

Muslims prohibit the consumption of alchohol. can you imagine a world populated only by people like .

At the current birthrates, this is an inevitable.

 

[Norman Potting]

Not sure if it was Dennis Leary or Bill Hicks or neither of them who came out with "message to all you teetotal, non smoking vegans in the audience - you die as well!"