I used to drink 5 drinks a night back when I was unmotivated and uninspired.
Now I barely drink one or two a week. Times have changed.
Now I barely drink one or two a week. Times have changed.
Quote: (10-01-2014 02:34 PM)RougeNoir Wrote:So for where you live you're way below average. Those Mfers can Drink!
Sunday: 5 (football)
Monday: 0 (gym)
Tuesday: 3 (happy hour)
Wednesday: 3 (post rec-league drinks/date)
Thursday: 0 (gym)
Friday:8 (date/going out)
Saturday: 8 (going out)
27 drinks per week
Quote: (10-01-2014 07:57 AM)heavy Wrote:
Quote: (09-30-2014 11:58 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
Jesus Christ, 70 drinks per week? Even in my major pisshead days at university I don't think I drank that much. Who does that? How have their livers not collapsed by now?
Likewise, I call BS on Depardieu drinking 12+ bottles per day. If those bottles are 750ml, that's at least 9 litres of fluids per day. You'd spend all day pissing. You'd have to be drinking and pissing at the same time in order to get through it all.
That's sad...or you're way underestimating how much you drink when you drink light beer partying in college.
I'd say on lighter weekends I'm a near guarantee for 20 on Fri-Sat easy, let's say 25. Sunday I usually do funday, so another 5-10. During the week I'd say maybe 10-20 (depending on Monday Night Football watch, post gym beers, Thursday boozin).
I'm probably running 35-50 per week. I've done 70 many times, but that wouldn't be average I don't think. Tough to drink that much good beer.
Quote: (10-01-2014 10:05 PM)Charlemagne In Sweatpants Wrote:
Former booze bag here.
One of my first attempts at getting my act together involved tracking drink units, as described in the study. At my worst, I was averaging just under 90 units of alcohol a week. Drinking that much was literally like a second full time job - it required a twisted degree of dedication. It's very hard to believe that 10% of the population is drinking at slightly lower levels than I was at my absolute shittiest.
Quote: (10-01-2014 02:44 PM)rottenapple Wrote:
According to the graph, 60% of people drink less than one drink a week. Where are these people?
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"And in fact, most adults don't drink at all on any given day," said lead author Patricia Guenther, a nutritionist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
"But the fact remains that it is a significant public health problem that many people do drink to excess."
Guenther said that members of the committee that drafted the current USDA guidelines on alcohol consumption wanted to know how many adults exceeded the limits.
She and her colleagues collected data from a nationally representative survey on health and nutrition, which included about 5,400 adults over age 21. Among other things, each was asked how much alcohol they drank the previous day.
The researchers found that 64 percent of men and 79 percent of women said they drank no alcohol at all that day, and another 18 percent of men and 10 percent of women drank within the recommended amounts.
Nine percent of men said they had three to four drinks the day before and 8 percent of women said they drank two to three alcoholic beverages, the researchers said.
The heaviest drinkers of all were the 8 percent of men who had five or more drinks, and 3 percent of women who had four or more.
"Overall the study confirms that rates of unhealthy alcohol use in the U.S. are significant," said Jennifer Mertens, a research medical scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, who was not part of the study.
Regularly drinking more than recommended levels is "linked to increased alcohol-related problems," Mertens wrote in an email to Reuters Health.