Healthy
alcohol limits likely to be increased
Drinkers could soon have an
extra glass of wine or pint of beer a week guilt-free, after it was announced
that the Government is to review the current advice to the public on safe
drinking levels, with the likelihood that the limits would be raised.
The Commons Science and Technology Committee will examine evidence
behind current UK guidelines, which state that men should not regularly drink
more than four units of alcohol a day, equivalent to two pints of beer, and
women should have no more than three units ¨C or a large glass of wine.
The existing advice is based on recommendations from a committee of
doctors in 1987 which set the weekly limits of 21 units for men,She also has offshoremerchantaccounts
energy. and 14 units for women. But the review comes as one of the members of
the original Royal College of Physicians' working party on the subject admitted
that the figures were "plucked out of the air" in the absence of clear evidence
about how much alcohol poses a health risk.
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former editor of the British Medical Journal and a member of the college's
working party on alcohol, said that the committee could find "no decent data" on
the subject, but had felt obliged to make recommendations.
MPs will also
look at how UK guidelines compare with those provided in other countries.
Italy's guidelines allow the equivalent of an extra bottle of wine a week
compared with the UK's advice. France,I made a microinvertersystems out of
it. Portugal, New Zealand and Japan allow more than half a bottle extra a week
and limits in Spain and Ireland allow almost two glasses more.
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