https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-f...women-alcohol/
This query was sparked by an article in today's D Telegraph on drinking habits.which contained the following comment:
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“The Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines for both men and women are to keep health risks from alcohol to a low level by drinking 14 or fewer units of alcohol per week,” says Tyrell. But if you’re going to drink alcohol, those units shouldn’t be consumed all in one go. “You should spread your drinking out over three or more days. Don’t save all your units for the weekend.” "
Years ago I shared a flat with medical students and I remember one of them telling me their theory on this subject, based upon metabolising one unit /drink of alcohol per hour ( as in above article also ). Basically if you drink only one unit per day, then your liver will metabolise ( and be affected adversely ) by that one unit. If you save all your units for one day then whilst your liver is still only handling one unit per hour, some of the remaining alcohol will be excreted before being metabolised by the liver.
In the above example, the regualr moderate drinker will subject his liver to the harmful effects of seven units per week whereas the binger's liver will suffer from less ( unsure how much is excreted how quickly ). If this is correct, the binge drinker harms his health less ( possible injury excepted ) than the moderate drinker, and all these articles counselling against bingeing are incorrect. Is this correct, or is there a flaw somewhere ?