New drinking guidelines

[schmunk]

It's staggering.

I'm not surprised, with all the weight and the booze...

 

[highflyer]

I do wonder if at some stage, we'll look back in the same way as many do with fags - wondering why at first there was so little intervention over the marketing of such a harmful product...

[/I]

I won't be wondering!

If you can't work out why there is so little intervention against major corporations, making vast fortunes for their senior staff and shareholders (often the same thing), deploying dark money and employing an army of well paid lobbyists...well you might be a tad hard of thinking.

The Conservative Party works for big money. That is what it is for. That is what it does.

 

[Wellesley]

If I add up all the hours of the week that I'm not drinking, it amounts to the equivalent of THREE days , so at least I know I'm doing fine.

 

[beorhthelm]

As someone who likes a drink, this is somewhat sobering information...

I do wonder if at some stage, we'll look back in the same way as many do with fags - wondering why at first there was so little intervention over the marketing of such a harmful product...

not really. its self-selecting information, people ill through something will be in hospital. meanwhile millions enjoy a few drinks with negligible effects.

 

[Hampster Gull]

I know a woman who drinks between 24-30 cans of lager (4% ish) a day. She is swollen like a balloon, red as a berry, spends most of her life in the khazi, and reeks. Yet she stilll just about functions! How can the body tolerate such abuse? It's staggering.