Per the organisation, “Alcohol consumption above recommended limits (of 14 units per week) over a long period of time may shrink the parts of the brain involved in memory.” ...

New U.S. dietary guidelines may no longer recommend Americans limit their alcohol consumption to 1-2 alcoholic drinks per day, a Reuters report says. Instead, that language may be replaced with a ...

The concept of alcohol units was first introduced in the UK in 1987 to help people keep track of their drinking, and it is a simple way of expressing the quantity of pure alcohol in a drink.

“Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States — greater than the 13,500 ...

If you want to look after your liver, don’t drink alcohol. But if you must, drink in moderation and have two to three alcohol-free days each week.

Heavy drinkers -- those consuming 11 or more units of alcohol per week, roughly equal to six or more standard drinks like beers or glasses of wine -- saw the biggest drops in consumption.

The best way to assess the effects of alcohol would be to randomly assign people to drink it or not in childhood and then monitor their health and drinking over the rest of their lives. Since such ...

The participation rate was 30%. The men's average alcohol intake in the previous week was 11 units, where a unit is defined as 25 g of ethanol, the approximate amount in one beer or one glass of wine.