There are concerns that the recommended daily alcohol limit of 2 drinks a day may be bad for the elderly.
According to recent reports 2 drinks a day may be bad for the elderly heart.
Elderly women in particular seem to be at risk, according to researchers. Researchers studied the habits of 4,466 people over the age of 76.
They found that increasing alcohol intake among the elderly is associated with mild alterations in cardiac structure and function.
Read more here.
Campaigners are complaining that drinks manufacturers aren’t labelling alcoholic drinks as they should. Apparently just one in six alcoholic drinks are carrying the proper labels. Watch this video that explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQTheN97d0
It seems we’re changing the way we drink according to The Australian Bureau of Statistics.In a report recently released the nation’s alcohol consumption is at its lowest level since the 1960s.
According to the statistics Australians are now more interested in the quality of the alcohol they were consuming, with stats showing a rise in craft beers and ciders. The consumption of wine has also increased.
It seems Australian drinking culture has changed from quantity to quality.
Read more here.
Watch this cool video for a bit of a lesson on what happens when you get drunk.
According to an article on The Business Insider website, there are 8 drinking mistakes we should avoid at all costs. These include:
Source: Business Insider
After a survey recently revealed that 100 million hours are being lost every month in Australia due to hangovers, the question has emerged ” does your drinking affect your work?”
According to a survey sponsored by Dry July one in five Australians had taken a sick day in the past year in order to recover from a hangover.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a drink or two but don’t binge drink or allow your drinking to interfere with your everyday life and work. This is one of the reasons Responsible Service of Alcohol legislation was implemented, so that harm caused by binge drinking could be minimised.
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An incident that happened in a French bar takes the idea of Responsible Service of alcohol to whole new level. A man has been charged after a patron at his bar ” drank himself to death”.
The man, only known as Renaud, was at the Le Starter bar in Clermont-Ferrand, in central France when he allegedly tried to beat the bar’s previous record of 55 shots.
Unfortunately he died due to alcohol poisoning after being spurred on by the bar owner who is now being charged with the man’s death.
Make sure you/ your staff have received RSA training so the same thing doesn’t happen to you.
Read more about it here.
If you could stop binge drinking with a simple fix, would you?
Polo-loving New Yorkers gathered over the weekend to enjoy the 8th annual Veuve Clicquot Polo in the Park but were limited to only 5 drinks in an effort to curb binge drinking, and the behaviour that usually follows it.
Is this a policy that could work for other events and even at certain venues? Is this an ingenious way to ensure we never have to endure the embarassing behaviour of that binge drinker that inevitably makes it into every occasion?
Interested? Find out more here.
It seems that beer is evolving from the old-fashioned ale our grandfathers use to drink into something more complex, sophisticated and elite.
Craft beers are the new popular drinks among the trendy and according to a writer on British website The Mirror.co.uk we may actually have been drinking it wrong all these years.
See more about it here.
Wine is probably the most popular alcoholic drink in the world and many people claim to know a lot about it. Here are some facts about wine that you probably didn’t know.
Wine was first discovered in The Middle East, almost 6000 years ago.
Wine is thought to first have been made/ fermented by mistake.
Excess wine has been used to make biofuel to power motor cars.
Find out more interesting wine facts here.