Dentist yesterday, after quoting for a new crown, left me reeling!
assured me the high cost of dentistry was one reason people are
generally cutting down on alcohol drinks and mixers, fruit juices,
more aware of hidden sugars.
The Surgery have two tough talking (and very expensive Hygienists)
who now advise on diet, sugar is bad, alcohol converts to sugar etc.
Of course a patient would have to be receptive to this information,
make the connection, review their evening drinking.
This is a town of many hostelries. Apart from one particular old pub
with an outside drinking area for regular stalwarts, the pubs are noticeably
quiet, although this is not a Student town so no drunkenness here.
In our own socially aware circles, half do not drink now, ‘liver aware’
admonished by gp, spouse, AC, cost, mostly health reasons, including
necessary weight loss, empty calories.
Deliberately getting legless during Freshers Week used to be a Rites of Passage.
Reading some of your posts of the preponderence of casual drug use makes me
relieved mine are through that minefield.
For all the time we lived in small town France, we never once saw or heard
a drunken Frenchman/woman, only ever English in various forms of inebriation.
Another random thought - before Christmas, shopping online, surprised
at the low alcohol prices, Baileys 10£ a litre, now 22£ example, at a time
when young teens may be allowed alcohol as a ‘treat’ setting them on a
path. Curiosity rewarded.
My parents never drank, ostensibly, a sherry at Christmas perhaps, now
it’s part of life, like rotten teeth.