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The original commenter might not have been using "drink" this way, but theoretically there is such a thing as a "standard drink": roughly 14 grams of pure alcoh
by ketzo 6y ago
The original commenter might not have been using "drink" this way, but theoretically there is such a thing as a "standard drink": roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is about 12oz of beer, 5oz of wine, or 1.5oz of liquor.
This "standard drink" is what an average person can roughly process per hour. It's all fuzzy because of how many confounding variables there are with alcohol (and because "average person" is kind of a nonsense phrase), but there you go.
Source: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/what-standard-drink https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-a...
- lotsofpulp 6y agoThat website just defines a “standard drink” in the US as 14 grams of alcohol. It doesn’t say anything about how much an average person can “process” in an hour. I can’t even come up with a good reason for the utility of a measure of alcohol without it being a ratio of how much can be processed in an hour. That’s why the NHS metric is better suited for discussions about how much alcohol per unit of time one can/should drink, or to discuss the effects of different rates of alcohol consumption over time. From the NHS website: >One unit equals 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol, which is around the amount of alcohol the average adult can process in an hour.