While there is no doubt that alcohol consumption beyond a limit does no good to anyone, it was found that a lot many lives can be saved if one can rein control over their alcohol consumption. It was claimed that by trimming down the average intake of alcohol to around half a small glass of wine can save as much as 4,600 premature deaths a year in England alone.
For the research, a team of researchers led by Professor Martin Jarvis, from University College London, applied a mathematical model to prove the same.
It is believed that the exiting Government guidelines of drinking between three to four units per day for men and two to three for women are not apt for the required level of protection, and that’s what makes it all the more clear that there is need to take some action in the same context.
Excessive alcohol consumption can make on fall to range of health diseases like heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy etc and that’s what makes it all the more serious.
Published in the online journal BMJ Open, it has been made clear that there is review done of the alcohol guidelines by Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer in England.
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