The NIAAA Helps Rethink Your Drinking.
March 9, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Addiction, Food and Drink, Happy Living Tip, Health, How To, Prevention
‘Just one drink. Okay, maybe just one more.’ Does that sound familiar? We have all been there at some stage or another. However, most of us never develop a drinking problem. We know when to stop and how much is too much.
But even if you don’t have a problem with alcohol, it never hurts to learn more about what alcohol can do to your body and your life.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have created a great interactive website called ”Rethinking Drinking” that’s definitely worth checking out. Aimed at helping people, especially those between 18 and 30, determine what type of drinker they are and whether they might be at risk of developing a drinking problem.
Rethinking Drinking asks (and answers) the following questions…
- Do you know how much US adults drink – and where you fit in?
- Do you know what counts as a drink?
- Do you know how many drinks are in common containers?
- Do you know why being able to ‘hold your liquor’ is a concern?
- Do you know the signs that alcohol is causing harm?
The site offers some great tools and resources such as the interactive worksheets let you do things like weigh the pros and cons plus calculators that can help you estimate drink sizes, cocktail contents, alcohol calories, alcohol spending, and blood alcohol concentration levels.
Holy propaganda Batman! If you haven’t clicked the link yet, let me summarize this site for you.
“Have you ever once thought about drinking?”
If so, YOU ARE AN ALCOHOLIC AND A BAD PERSON!
Typical .gov site, uselessly pushing an ill-informed, factless*, biased agenda.
* The “Facts” presented are baseless and quite obviously used to persuade people to never use alcohol.