Adults should have no more than 10 standard drinks a week and no more than four drinks in one day, under proposed national guidelines that also recommended under-18s avoid alcohol completely | Kaubo
Australians will need to cut their maximum alcohol intake by four drinks per week if they want to stick to strict new national guidelines proposed on Monday.
It means a healthy adult who drinks four standard drinks at a Christmas party would need to limit their drinking for the rest of the week to six or fewer drinks to stay within the more rigid recommendations.A standard drink may be much smaller than many Australians realise. Half a bottle of wine would be enough to hit the daily limit for one person. A standard drink of full-strength beer is 285 ml and a standard drink of spirits 30ml.
"Alcohol can harm the way the brain develops, increase the risk of injury and other immediate harms, and increase the risk of developing alcohol-related conditions later in life," she said.For pregnant women, the NHMRC recommends complete abstinence from alcohol to reduce the risk of harm to their unborn children, and advise breastfeeding mothers that not drinking alcohol was safest for their babies.
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