Dry January: is giving up booze beneficial?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Is There a Safe Level of Drinking?
The CMO's chief medical officers guidelines are about 14 units a week. That's about a bubble and a half of wine, about seven pints of lager. The gradient of harm starts from tiny levels of consumption for breast cancer - it gets higher the further you go. So we don't say safe, we say low risk. For some conditions, there's been evidence over the years that tiny amounts of alcohol might reduce your risk of developing and dying from heart disease or stroke.
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