Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council have warned people that having a standard of two alcoholic drinks per day is no longer safe. This news comes after a review of evidence revealing the lifetime risk of dying from alcohol-related disease or injury.
Released just in time for Christmas, the National Health and Medical Research Council on Monday published a draft report which updated Australia’s alcohol guidelines for the first time since 2009.
The new guidelines warn that adults should have “no more than 10 standard drinks per week” to reduce the health risks from alcohol, or roughly 1.4 drinks a day. The maximum an adult should have on a single day is four standard drinks.
More about official health guidelines and effects of alcohol from The Guardian.
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I don't give a rat's derriere - just gimme my beer! :D
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I definitely have had nowhere close to 2 drinks per day for the past year, so I'd better get to work if I want to keep that quota for 2019.
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