A lot of drinks in their definitions are 3 units, so 35 units of alcohol / week is < 2 drinks / day. That doesnât sound like a crazy high amount to me.
35 units of alcohol is 5 drinks per day.
Look at the definition of a unit in the article. One drink <> 1 unit. A beer is 2-3 units, a glass of wine is 3. Spirits are 1 unit per 25ml, so a mixed drink with 3 oz of alcohol is 3.5 units.
A unit of alcohol is 10g of alcohol. This is what you find in a can of light beer thatâs 4 % abv.
Well, the can is 13 g or so
This is actually an interesting physiological question.
What is more damaging:
35 units in 1 day (binge drinking one day a week)
35 units spread out over a week (same every day)
What would cause more damage over 5 years?
Binge drinking is almost certainly worse.
Anyway, on the units of alcohol thing - I recognized that the 3 cans of IPAs that I had regularly every evening for a long time was a lot closer to 6 drinks than it was 3, and I would say that amount was increasingly disruptive to my health, especially as hit my 40s. If the only measurable impact was on sleep, that alone could lead to cognitive difficulties.
The article does not suggest the impacts are necessarily permanent, it describes Caldwellâs experience as all in the past while he was drinking regularly.
when they say spirits I will assume that is 40% alcohol.
so a 12oz 5% beer/seltzer is 1.775 units. So thatâs 19.7 of those a week. if you drink the light beers (usually at ~4.2% ABV) we are up to almost 24 cans (12oz cans) a week.
anywayâŚthe study fits the thread title
How many units are in alcoholic drinks?
Pint of lower strength lager, beer or cider - 2 units
Pint of higher strength lager, beer or cider - 3 units
Small glass of wine (125ml) - 1.5 units
Large glass of wine (250ml) - 3 units
Single shot of spirits (25ml) - 1 unit
Worth noting that a British pint is 19oz, while a US can of lite beer is often 12 oz. The President is using US sizes, and also drinking something that the Brits might not consider beer.
I think of it as âbeer-flavoured fizzy waterâ.
having looked up multiple people who died in their 20s-40s from alcoholism
oh wait, let me find my post on that
I should update that
WellâŚ
Apparently, in the US a drink is 14g of alcohol, which is more than a âunitâ from the article, but still a whole lot less than is actually in a lot of drinks.
And yes, British âpintsâ are larger, and the ABV is lower, than a comparable can of US âcraft beerâ but I think you get to the same result if you are measuring units, or âdrinksâ in some not completely arbitrary way.
Are three cans of 6% beer in an evening âa lotâ? Thats 6 units, 4.5 US âdrinksâ and more than twice what the health guidelines say. I enjoyed that in my 20s-30s, but not so much into my 40s.
Note: since I now buy NA beer online, I get plenty of ads for beers and apps and things. The comments out there are really fascinating. Plenty of people who were over 20 drinks a day for years. Apparently, it seems like a whole lot of people are pretty much lying on every survey out there, and some of those studies that look at aggregate consumption and conclude that 10% of drinkers must be consuming 75 or more drinks a week arenât wrong. WTH are the people drinking that end up in meeps statistics?