We used to be told a couple of glasses a day is okay and good for the heart, but now scientists say just half a unit a day is safe. Picture: ThinkStock Source: Supplied
- Scientists recommend new guidelines for safer drinking
- Recommend cutting back to just couple of sips a day
- That's right - you're now no longer allowed to finish your beer
WINE lovers thinking of reaching for another glass better think again before taking another swig.
Experts are recommending we forget the couple of glasses a day rule and cut back our alcohol consumption even further - to no more than three small glasses of wine a week.
Or in other words, they reckon half a unit a day, the equivalent of just a couple of swigs of beer, is now a safer level to prevent chronic health problems and death.
Australian government guidelines currently recommend healthy men and women drink no more than two standard drinks on any day.
But now researchers from Britain?s Oxford University say the ideal intake to prevent chronic disease is five grams a day, or around half a unit.
The study, published in online journal BMJ Open, led by Dr Melanie Nichols, of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group at Oxford University, looked at the death toll of 11 conditions linked to long-term alcohol consumption.
They included heart disease, stroke, cirrhosis of the liver, and cancer.
Using data from large-scale studies on drinking and chronic disease risk, scientists combined the findings with estimates of weekly alcohol consumption among 15,000 adults in England.
They found by cutting back on the booze would save 4500 lives a year, or three in 100 of all deaths from the 11 conditions studied.
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