![]() Two drinks per week for women, that is, before we are putting ourselves at risk of “negative health consequences.” (Men can have three.) A standard drink is a 5 oz. But, perhaps in an attempt not to appear entirely puritanical, the new alcohol guidelines allow us two drinks. The gist of them is that any amount of imbibing can have a negative impact on one’s health. I refer, of course, to the new Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines released by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), which has been received with strong reactions of all kinds on social and mainstream media. If there are five 5oz glasses in a 750 ml bottle of wine, and my female friend and I drink two glasses, what happens to the fifth glass? And are we poisoning ourselves with each delicious sip? The simple act of splitting a bottle of wine with a friend has become a fraught exercise in math. ![]()
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