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What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:58 pm
by max_tranmere
I'm sure most of us surpass it, but what is the recommended weekly points intake? I've heard it mentioned on TV but I cant remember. Is it something like 21 points (namely about 10.5 pints of beer) a week or something?
Re: What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:42 am
by Guilbert
>What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
One could argue the "recommended points intake of alcohol" is ZERO !!
Re: What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:44 am
by bigot
One of the guys on the committee that came up with the recommended limits recently admitted that, in the absence of any hard evidence, they simply made-up the figures. I think it may have been the same committee that said Saddam had WMDs!
By the way, never trust a man who refers to booze as 'units of alcohol'!
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/004728.html
Re: What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:06 am
by eroticartist
max_tranmere ,
It varies by body weight and tolerance but a safe way to take it is red wine with meals.
Mike Freeman.
Re: What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:32 am
by andy at handiwork
Every meal?
Re: What's the recommended 'points' intake of alcohol?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:56 am
by max_tranmere
Most single British men will drink anything from 10-16 pints of beer over just a Friday and Saturday night. Add in a Sunday afternoon drink, a weeknight or two in the pub also, and maybe the odd single pint of a weekday lunchtime, and you have confirmation that most of us will die prematurely from liver failure! Yikes!