Is three bottles of wine a week too much?

[PinkOrchidDream]

My husband, not me. Since I've been pregnant, so abstaining from drink altogether, I've been more aware of his drinking. It's by no means a problem judging by his behaviour but I just wondered if this is (obviously a bit unhealthy) but normal for some. It's spread out over the week so he doesn't binge at weekends.

Even though it’s double the guidance? You are aware that it’s thirty units not fourteen?

Yep, fully aware.

Everyone is fully aware so stop the lectures

I can have that in a night but know it is too much

It’s totally socially acceptable to drink that much so it can be easy to forget that it’s not good for long term health. Even cutting it out twice a week would be a good step in the right direction.

Why is it lecturing to state that something is over a recommended limit? Simply hearing something you don’t like or don’t agree with is not being lectured (or hectored, etc., etc.).

I do not get the responses to this thread.

Sounds a lot if not shared.

I think it's a bit much. But in my 20s and 30s I would have thought nothing of it. Cutting down to 2 bottles a week with a couple of nights off would be a reasonable improvement for him, could he manage that?

That’s half a bottle a day. Over time, that’s a lot. Too much to do regularly.

I have one bottle a week over the weekend and I'm feeling like it is too much for me. I always feel rubbish the next day and my skin doesn't look great, it isn't helping lose the last half a stone and I've just decided to quit. I am aware I am a very cheap night out as two glasses is my limit, not through want of trying. I'm guessing it doesn't affect him as much? He will probably be best to cut down before the baby arrives, no sleep and hangovers do not mix. And you will need help with the baby too.

@Cowbells

I respect Nutt but he's grossly exaggerating over this in order to pursue a very different agenda of his own regarding rules on mind-altering substances.

There are many known benefits of small amounts of wine. It relaxes us (good thing. Red wine has anti oxidants (good thing.) One glass a year is nonsense. Maybe one small glass a day or every other day. It doesn't poison us.

Ethanol is a poison, actually @Cowbells

I wouldn't drink that in a decade so I've no idea.

It might be a good idea for him to cut down now and get a bit healthier in readiness for when your baby arrives. He will be grouchy enough when trying to cope with the changes in your household as well as the sleepless nights.

For all those people saying that 30 units a week is the norm - the average for the UK was actually 11.4 units per week in 2016

No. Thats the average of what people SAY they drink. Which is rarely the same thing.

Alcohol is a poison - this is why people get alcohol poisoning

Your logic is faulty. You can get water poisoning, doesn't mean water is a poison or should be avoided.

Your logic is faulty. You can get water poisoning, doesn't mean water is a poison or should be avoided

However, ethanol is an actual poison.

That may be, but the logic is still faulty.

It's not "logic", faulty or otherwise, to say that people get alcohol poisoning because alcohol is a poison. It's fact.

Drunkenness is literally alcohol poisoning. Why do some people never want to face that?

Think about the word "intoxication" for a moment...

@ThursdayWeld

It's not "logic", faulty or otherwise, to say that people get alcohol poisoning because alcohol is a poison. It's fact.

You entirely missed the point. Reread the quotes and see if you can find it.

What a bonkers thread. Of course 3 bottles of wine a week is too much. So is 2. It doesn’t matter what the guidelines say. The guidelines are to try and give people something realistically attainable to aim for while minimising harm. Everyone knows if you tell people, especially in the UK “don’t drink!” it’s like a red rag to a bull. So everyone gets told “pleeease, don’t drink heaps, that way the huge impact of alcohol-related disease that costs the NHS billions a year can be spread out over time.”

Guaranteed the OP’s DH will have a paunch of fat that will be impacting his health now or in the near future and come the arrival of the baby, will either have to go without the wine and struggle, or keep drinking the wine and be neither use nor ornament.

It’s refreshing to read some comments from people with insight, they know they should cut back. But people who are in denial, it’s a bit sad really.

Your point, as I read it, was that anything non-poisonous (such as water) can poison you if taken in sufficient amounts.

My point is that ethanol is an actual poison.

That was to @PaperbackRider.

I think people expect a freak out over the word ‘poison’.

Pretty sure sugar qualifies as a poison too.

You can get water poisoning, doesn't mean water is a poison or should be avoided

You're comparing apples with oranges though. You have to drink a lot of water to experience water poisoning. One glass of water isn't poisonous. One glass of alcohol is and will affect your body in not good ways. I drink, by the way, but am under no illusion that it is not bad for me.

Far too much in my view. But then we're not heavy drinkers at all in my family. If we're on our own we don't drink much. If we do it's a glass of wine with the meal. If my parents are over we share 2-3 bottle max between 4 adults over the 10 days that they stay with us.