what are safe drinking limits?
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The Chief Medical Officers' guidelines for both men and women are: To keep health risks from alcohol to a low level it is safest not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis. If you regularly drink as much as 14 units per week, it is best to spread your drinking evenly over 3 or more days.
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Guideline 1: For healthy men and women, drinking no more than 2 standard drinks on any day reduces the lifetime risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury.
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According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, moderate drinking is up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men.
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For most people, 2 to 3 drinks are all it takes to become legally impaired, as determined by his or her blood alcohol content (BAC). The legal limit for BAC in all 50 states is 0.08%.
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For men of average size to stay under the limit: no more than 2 standard drinks in the first hour and 1 drink per hour after that. For women of average size to stay under the limit: no more than 1 standard drink per hour.
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The NHS recommends not drinking more than 14 units of alcohol a week. If you do drink that much, it is best to spread it over three or more days. One unit of alcohol is 10ml of pure alcohol, which is equivalent to half a pint of normal-strength lager or a single measure (25ml) of spirits.
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“One pint of beer or one glass of wine could put you over the limit, especially novice or professional drivers where the limit is 20/100.” ... “The advice really is, the bottom line is, don't drink and drive. It's very, very difficult to estimate how much is in your body.”
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The NHS advise drinking six to eight glasses of fluids per day. However, drinking way more than that can impact negatively on your health too. To put it into another perspective, this is about three or four 500ml bottles of water.
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Have at least one 16-ounce glass of water with every 12-ounce beer or 4 to 6 ounces of liquor, for example. Water can replenish your fluids and help you stay hydrated.
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So How Much Water Is Too Much? According to Moskowitz, it depends on each individual, but anything more than half your body weight could be the limit. “Symptomatic water intoxication, or hyponatremia, begins when someone drinks about three to four liters of water at one time,” explains Valdez.
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But even low-risk alcohol use doesn't mean no risk. The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recommends that men consume no more than four drinks on any day and no more than 14 drinks per week. Women should drink no more than three drinks a day and no more than seven per week.
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If you have high blood pressure, avoid alcohol or drink alcohol only in moderation. Moderate drinking is generally considered to be: Two drinks a day for men younger than age 65.
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The U.S. Dietary Guidelines say moderate alcohol consumption is OK, which means having up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men.
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The 80mg limit allows a man of average height and weight to drink as many as four units of alcohol, or two pints of normal-strength beer, and still remain within the law. Women can drink three units, the equivalent of a large glass of average strength wine.
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Limited alcohol “You're allowed one or two drinks a night, either wine or beer, no spirits,” she recalled to The Sun. ... “We provide our Islanders with all of the necessary precautionary measures and all alcohol consumption is strictly monitored by our production team,” they stated.
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Currently only seven out of 28 EU countries have a standard Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit of 0.2 g/l or below; 0.1 and 0.2 are effectively equivalent to zero tolerance, while still allowing for consumption of certain medicines, or drinks marketed as alcohol free.
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It is illegal to buy alcohol for someone under 18 in a licensed premises, the only exception is for 16 or 17 year-olds who are allowed to drink beer, wine or cider with food if with an adult (but they may not buy the alcohol themselves). It is legal for anyone over 5 to drink alcohol.