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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
More than three glasses a week is a heavy drinker most likely alcoholic. Most normal people don't chronically drink every day or week.

I guess all the population of Europe and 60 percent of the population of the US are alcoholics. 
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Yes they have a small amount of wine with their meal..maybe 4-6 oz. in the US a 6 oz pour will get you laughed at.[/quote]

Not sure what countries you are referring to, but [b]in the UK, the NHS recommends men limit their consumption to 3-4 drinks A DAY and women to 2-3 drinks A DAY.  [/b]The US has the lowest alcohol consumption of any western industrialized nation. Europeans are having a bit more than a "small amount of wine" with dinner.

I think our Puritan history may be unduly influencing your perception of what "too much alcohol" looks like.
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I believe you may have misread that website.  [b]They are saying 3-4 [i]units[/i] a day for men and 2-3 [i]units[/i] for women. [/b] One unit does not equal one drink: [quote]Units are a simple way of expressing the quantity of pure alcohol in a drink. One unit equals 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol, which is around the amount of alcohol the average adult can process in an hour. This means that within an hour there should be, in theory, little or no alcohol left in the blood of an adult, although this will vary from person to person.

The number of units in a drink is based on the size of the drink as well as its alcohol strength. For example, [b]a pint of strong lager contains 3 units of alcohol, whereas the same volume of standard lager has just over 2 units.[/b] [/quote] 
So it's not as much as it sounds like on the first read - although, granted it might be more than is recommended in the United States.  Here's the link I got this from: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alcohol/Pages/alcohol-units.aspx

Interesting page and it has a link to a calculator to show how many units are in each type of drink.[/quote]

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