These days, it may not seem like a big deal to have a drink before dinner and a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. Yet, according to the National Institutes of Health, consuming that amount of alcohol puts you in a high risk category.
Rethinking Drinking, a website run by the NIH, can help you assess the risks and/or benefits of your drinking habits.You might be surprised to see how just low the threshold
for "low-risk" drinking is, especially when you consider the size of a
"standard" drink is just 1.5 ounces of hard liquor. The newly (or once
again) popular martini drinks usually contain the equivalent of 2 to 4
servings of alcohol.
What do you think? Is this too heavy-handed an approach? Are we
American's showing our latent puritanism here? Are the risks of
moderate drinking being overstated?
Tip: See SELF Magazine's Guide to a Healthy Happy Hour
For those who are motivated to make a change in
their drinking habits, the site offers tools and strategies that are consistent with the proven approach developed
by James Prochaska and outlined in his excellent book Changing for Good.
See also: Fitting Alcohol into Your Weight Loss Program
A low-carb diet consisting of (20 g/d for 3 months) in the form of low–glycemic index vegetables with unrestricted consumption of fat and protein turns out to be healthier than the universally accepted low-fat diet consisting of limited energy intake (1200 to 1800 kcal/d; ≤30% calories from fat).
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What do you think? Is this too heavy-handed an approach? Are we
American's showing our latent puritanism here? Are the risks of
moderate drinking being overstated?
Tip: See SELF Magazine's Guide to a Healthy Happy Hour
For those who are motivated to make a change in
their drinking habits, the site offers tools and strategies that are consistent with the proven approach developed
by James Prochaska and outlined in his excellent book Changing for Good.
See also: Fitting Alcohol into Your Weight Loss Program
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