So we drink too much ?

Yesterday results were published by academics suggesting that 80 percent of women and 75 percent of men drink more than the Government's recommended guidelines.

Here is an academic review of those findings

No shit Sherlock

For the past 30 years I have been hammering on about how much we drink in this country and how government recommended guidelines are about as useful as unicorn horn.

Why?

Well put simply the guidelines are based on too many false assumptions based on too many poor questions asked by too many people who have little or no interest in really solving the problems of over consumption of alcohol in the UK.

We know 1 in 20 people have a serious addiction to alcohol in the UK. Now this will skew figures of consumption as these people will drink far more than the average person. However it is clear that people must be drinking far more than government guidelines simply based on consumption figures. Either that or there is a massive wine lake under the UK.

If we really want to get to grips about the challenges facing this country and it's relationship with alcohol then we have to start from a position of a no blame culture.

It is fine to have a drink in moderation, however if we are to find out what that moderation is then we need to do massive research and stop hiding behind small scale simple studies by the people in the ivory towers.

Once again this commentator calls for a total rethink around the education of alcohol in the United Kingdom. If we are to stop a tidal wave of health devastation then we really need to have a different view on how we look at things.