How many units of alcohol would you consume a week

bhob wrote: horsebox wrote: Binge drinking. Think about it though - you have 5 pints 2 twice a week, you'll be grand the next day. You have 10 pints on a Saturday night and you'll be in some heap the next day.   How does that make binge drinking healthier?

A lot of the weeks done in college would be fairly mad intake . A few weeks this year we might have went out on the Monday or Tuesday night so usually 8 cans which is 24 us a few bottles in the night club say 6 by 1.5 is 9. The same again on the Thursday night so that’s 66 for the two nights out. Few pints then on the other nights that we wouldn’t head out so 3 nights in the pub with at least 4 pints so that’s another 36. That’s conservative enough too as we would go to watch the games on most evenings so would be in the pub from 7 until at least 10 and staying on until close a lot. That’s 102 units. Obviously that’s not every week but standard if we have no exams/assignments in that given week. That would be common for must of the other students I know too.

Usually drink about 4 500ml bottles on Friday, 8 500ml bottles on Saturday and maybe one weekday another 4. Normally go for beers with a 5.2% - 6.5% ABV. So no more than 40 units it would seem. 

Edited by t_rAndy - 15 Jan 2019 at 3:02pm

horsebox wrote: Cans are usually 500ml and a pint is 568 ml - cans would be 2 units. Unless your on the Tennants Super or Carlsberg special brew - if so, you have bigger issues!

my intake is mostly cans,so my total would be lower than I calculated originally 

Trap junior wrote: There was a programme on BBC4 about binge versus spaced out drinking and which was healthier.  I meant to watch it but forgot so that's why I asked. It might actually be worse to space out the drinks. I am open to correction. The reason being I have heard previously that your liver needs time with no alcohol to recover.  So if you are having a couple of pints a day for 7 days = circa 28-30 units but you are exposing your liver to alcohol everyday. Where as a binge gets it out of the way with maybe 6 days recovery.

Borussia wrote: Imagine counting up the units from Euro 2012 or Euro 2016 !

Bob Hoskins wrote: Trap junior wrote: There was a programme on BBC4 about binge versus spaced out drinking and which was healthier.  I meant to watch it but forgot so that's why I asked. It might actually be worse to space out the drinks. I am open to correction. The reason being I have heard previously that your liver needs time with no alcohol to recover.  So if you are having a couple of pints a day for 7 days = circa 28-30 units but you are exposing your liver to alcohol everyday. Where as a binge gets it out of the way with maybe 6 days recovery. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wdfhk   I saw it, and was gonna start a thread on it. It was a Horizon programme. There was two twin doctors around 37. They both went off the drink for a month. Got tested. Their livers were completely normal (which shows how quickly it recovers). They'd be normal enough drinkers bit of wine/beers during the week and go out at the weekend and have a few on one of the nights. One brother had to binge drink 21 units in one sitting. The other drank the exact same amount but spread out evenly over the 7 days. This was over the course of a month. Was quite funny as yer man was bollixed. Binge drinking was definititely way worse. But there was loads of levels where they were the exact same and it wasn't good. They were both shocked at how much damage either option did.  I'm trying to think what numbers I would be racking up when I was in my 20s . I'd say there was many a 100 units weeks

horsebox wrote: Cans are usually 500ml and a pint is 568 ml - cans would be 2 units. Unless your on the Tennants Super or Carlsberg special brew - if so, you have bigger issues!

to work out units of alcohol in a drink: