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Regular Drinking Puts Millions of Middle-class Brits Health at Risk
The new General Household Survey is a poll of the adults in almost 13,000 homes, and is conducted by the Office for National Statistics.
And the survey has claimed that middle aged, professional Britons have a higher tendency to exceed recommended daily levels of alcohol consumption than the working-classes, with twice as many drinking every night of the week.
But, keeping in mind the increasing strength of alcoholic drinks and the trend for larger measures, the government has put in place new measurements to calculate the intake of alcohol.
Thus, one large glass of wine now counts as three units, a medium glass as two and a small glass as one-and-a-half.
Men are advised to consume no more than three or four units in any one day, while women are told not to have more than two or three.
However, the survey revealed that 37 per cent of adults regularly exceed this benchmark.
According to the researchers, many middle class drinkers insist they know what the safe level of alcohol consumption is, which means that they do not believe they are drinking too much
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