There's bats in the belfrey the windows are jammed : comments [purplerabbits]

Current DoH advice is "and women should not regularly drink more than 2 - 3 units of alcohol per day", so the two are fairly similar. Not drinking every day is, as you say, also good advice.

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It's a rather imprecise message to give -- is the limit two units per day or three? Giving a range of "2 to 3" is meaningless. And what is "regularly" supposed to mean? If I get plastered every year on new year's eve, that's regular, isn't it?

Bettter guidelines would be more precise, e.g.: no more than 4 units per day, and no more than 15 units per week. (I've no idea if those limits are sensible, it's just an example).

Not that I take alcohol limits seriously; the limit is 3-4 per day for men, which seems ridiculously low when 2 pints of Budvar is something like 5.2 units. I guess that makes me a binge drinker, then.

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It's not meaningless, it's just not exact. And it may be inexact for good reasons. Sometimes giving people very precise instructions is counterproductive. There certainly have been very precise limits suggested in the past, and the change may have been deliberate and well-informed.

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Exactly. Plus, not all women are created equal. There's a great deal of variation in body size, general health and the rate at which alcohol can be metabolised. Setting a precise level and saying 'all women should drink no more than 2 units per day' would quickly be seen as reductionist nonsense.

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