alt Hacker NewsAlcohol education classes promote (or used to promote…I had to attend one a couple of decades ago in college), the 1-2-3 system.
Not more than 1 unit an hour, don’t average more than 2 units a day over a week, and never exceed 3 units a day.
The caveat here is that a unit is much less than a regular serving size. A pint of beer is usually closer to 2 units.
So the recommendation was to not average more than a pint of beer a day, and to never drink more than about 1.5 pints in a day.
It’s much more stringent than people imagine.
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> It’s much more stringent than people imagine
Only from a perspective of "drinking any amount of alcohol daily is normal"
I realize that I'm a pretty extreme outlier in that I don't drink alcohol almost at all anymore.
Even when I did drink, drinking any amount daily would have been unfathomable to me. A couple of drinks on Friday and over the weekend was plenty. Maybe one drink after work on a weeknight if I went out with coworkers or something
I don't really get why people love it so much, honestly
A pint of beer a day is a lot. It's almost 500 calories - a meal by itself.
EDIT: I multiplied wrong, it's more like 250 calories.
I don't see how that's "stringent".