Alcohol Use: Annual Liters Per Person

[Captain Obvious]

Eastern Europe - dayum!

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...orldwide-guide

	Men	Women	Both
Global Average	10 liters	3 liters	7 liters
Africa	6	2	4
Caribbean, Central, Northern America	10	4	7
Central, Southern, Western Asia	4	0.4	2
Eastern Europe	21	7	14
Eastern, South-Eastern Asia	9	1	6
Northern Europe	16	7	12
Oceania	6	1	3
South America	12	4	8
Southern Europe	15	6	10
Western Europe	15	6	11

[del]

21 liters in a year?

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[Captain Obvious]

21 liters in a year?

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I know you were a big time alcoholic (still are by definition I guess), but didn't you ever get sick, like really sick?

I haven't gotten hungover/sick for decades but it was enough where I wouldn't touch a drop for like a couple months.

[del]

I know you were a big time alcoholic (still are by definition I guess), but didn't you ever get sick, like really sick?

I haven't gotten hungover/sick for decades but it was enough where I wouldn't touch a drop for like a couple months.

i found that if i drank pretty much 24/7, i never got a hangover

when i was younger, i got some hangovers that lasted for days where i couldn't even get out of bed.

when i got out of bed, i drank/drugged

i did the math; 21 liters would last me about 10-12 days at the end

and, yeah, i'm still a big time alcoholic- just a sober one

[GrassrootsConservative]

i found that if i drank pretty much 24/7, i never got a hangover

when i was younger, i got some hangovers that lasted for days where i couldn't even get out of bed.

when i got out of bed, i drank/drugged

i did the math; 21 liters would last me about 10-12 days at the end

and, yeah, i'm still a big time alcoholic- just a sober one

How long have you been on the wagon?

[del]

How long have you been on the wagon?

i've been clean and sober since 2/5/2010

[del]

better late than never

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - here, have a brownie...

No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms
24 Aug.`18 - Bad news for those who enjoy what they think is a healthy glass of wine a day.

A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections. A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.


How risky is moderate drinking?

The Global Burden of Disease study looked at levels of alcohol use and its health effects in 195 countries, including the UK, between 1990 and 2016. Analysing data from 15 to 95-year-olds, the researchers compared people who did not drink at all with those who had one alcoholic drink a day. They found that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health problem such as cancer or suffer an injury. But an extra four people would be affected if they drank one alcoholic drink a day.

Just one drink a day leads to health risks

For people who had two alcoholic drinks a day, 63 more developed a condition within a year and for those who consumed five drinks every day, there was an increase of 338 people, who developed a health problem. One of the study authors, Prof Sonia Saxena, a researcher at Imperial College London and a practising GP, said: "One drink a day does represent a small increased risk, but adjust that to the UK population as a whole and it represents a far bigger number, and most people are not drinking just one drink a day."

The lead author of the study Dr Max Griswold, at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, said: "Previous studies have found a protective effect of alcohol on some conditions, but we found that the combined health risks associated with alcohol increases with any amount of alcohol. "The strong association between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer, injuries, and infectious diseases offset the protective effects for heart disease in our study. "Although the health risks associated with alcohol start off being small with one drink a day, they then rise rapidly as people drink more."

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