Sarah Wakeman
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Yep.
Yep.
Well, so part of the challenge is what we think of as one drink.
So I think much like, you know, if you learn to read the serving size on a food, you realize that like a serving of ice cream is like a half scoop.
It's not like a giant ice cream sundae.
The same is true with alcohol.
So in the UK, the kind of low risk drinking limits talk about units of alcohol, which is the equivalent of eight grams of alcohol.
So how much of a drink has eight grams of alcohol?
And to be in that low-risk category, you have to be below 14 units.
The problem is that glass of wine, just eyeballing it, has several units of alcohol.
So it is not a โ even though we think of it as a single drink, it's probably โ I mean, I have to guess, but it's probably like three units of alcohol.
You'd be right at that limit.
The problem is most people don't drink just one glass.
If you have two glasses one day and then one glass one day and then three glasses one day because you're at a social function, all of a sudden you're actually quite a lot over that limit.
And you get 14 a week.
Yep.
So yes, you're over if you're drinking that size.
Yep.
Lower risk drinking.
You'd be in what we call moderate risk, which is associated with pretty much every form of cancer, which I think people don't know.