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According to the then-surgeon general's report, a woman who has two drinks a day faces a nearly 22% chance of developing an alcohol-related cancer, compared with a 16.5% risk for a woman drinking ...
Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol. Commonwealth of Australia. ISBN 978-1-86496-071-6. The Brilliant Breastfeeding Alcohol and Breastfeeding Archived 17 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine page describes pros and cons of drinking alcohol while breastfeeding. Drinking Guidelines: General Population by Country ...
The German Center for Addiction Issues recommends that women drink no more than 12 grams of alcohol per day, equivalent to a small beer or a small glass of wine, and that men drink no more than 24 ...
Binge drinking is defined as the amount of alcohol it takes to raise a person’s blood-alcohol concentration level to 0.08, the legal definition of being intoxicated in most states.
The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines a moderate dose as alcohol intake up to two standard drinks or 28 grams for men and one standard drink or 14 grams for women. [7] The immediate effect of alcohol depends on the drinker's blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
A standard drink is a notional drink that contains a specified amount of pure alcohol. The standard drink is used in many countries to quantify alcohol intake. It is usually expressed as a measure of beer, wine, or spirits. One standard drink always contains the same amount of alcohol regardless of serving size or the type of alcoholic beverage.
Chart showing how many units of alcohol per serving (numbers inside the chart) for servings, in millilitres, of wine with a given alcohol content, by volume. Date: 25 March 2008: Source: self-made by GNUPLOT (See the image code for the data and commands) and Inkscape based on data provided by User:DanBealeCocks. Author: Jak
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot that people still misunderstand about drinking alcohol, ... meaning up to one drink a day for women or up to two drinks a day for men — was not ...