The Benefits of Cutting Down Your Alcohol Consumption

If you drink 14 units a week, it will have almost no impact on your health. But as you go above that the harm curve is not straight and goes up like a U shape. Two bottles of wine a day will take up 20 years off your life. The Scots have minimum pricing, 50 pence per unit. And reducing consumption by 10% in someone who is seriously ill can make the difference between being in intensive care or just being in an ordinary hospital bed.