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Question:What is the safe level of drinking?
Answer:This is very common query related to alcohol. It is generally recommended that men should take 21 units of alcohol per week and women 14 units of alcohol per week.

Well, the value of one unit of alcohol is different in various countries. One unit of alcohol is 8 grams of pure ethanol in England, 14 in America, and 19 in Japan.

This doesn' t mean you will store up your units and then go for binge drinking on weekends. Binge drinking (drink that much quantity to get drunk) causes serious health problems and puts your safety in question.

Pregnant women should not drink any sort of alcohol. Moreover, even low level of alcohol consumption has been related to breast cancer in women. So, Women should try to cut down their alcohol intake as much as possible.

The most important thing is that the more you consume the alcohol, the greater will be the health risk. Moreover, every person has different capacity to metabolize the alcohol. So, it' s better to avoid or cut down the amount of alcohol to prevent ant sort of trouble in your life.

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