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I am now realizing when doing the math I misremembered and the US CDC unit of alcohol is 14g, so I am consuming 3 units/day whereas their guidelines are no more
by likemybooze 7y ago
I am now realizing when doing the math I misremembered and the US CDC unit of alcohol is 14g, so I am consuming 3 units/day whereas their guidelines are no more than 2 units/day.
The UK in contrast says a unit is 8g, and suggests no more than 2 units a day (so slightly more than half the US guideline).
Some countries call a unit 10g. If I recall correctly France suggests no more than 40g/day, so around 2/3rds of a bottle of wine (so 50% more than the US guideline).
So the suggested “healthy” limits for reasonable drinking vary considerably between countries and I am definitely exceeding the US guidelines, and even slightly exceeding the French guideline.
- guerby 7y agoFrom France official health insurer web site : https://www.ameli.fr/assure/sante/themes/alcool-sante/definition-reperes-consommation https://www.ameli.fr/assure/sante/themes/alcool-sante/defini... "No more than 10 glass a week, with no more than two glass a day." A glass = 10g alcohol, so 14g/day. The web site also say there is no alcohol consumption without risk.
- likemybooze 7y agoInteresting, perhaps some of the guidelines have been revised down in recent years. I distinctly remember both France and Italy having higher recommended daily limits and the only explanations I could find were that wine was part of the culture and thus the governments were reluctant to recommend substantially less than what people were actually drinking in practice.