Limoncello with lemonade is delish.

Oh and villa getting promoted meant a lot of beers celebrating

Having another go at having a break from the booze and done 2 weeks so far. Going well.
Anyone else on here attempting to quit or have a break?

When I quit the booze for good was aware due to past failures that drinking sugary drinks and even shandies/zero alcohol drinks affect the brain in an addictive manner due to additives etc. which sometimes was making me chain drink them like it was booze which quickly led back to the booze.
So advice would be keep off simple sugars/energy drinks and soft drinks to avoid the cravings initially and don't avoid starches in your diet to keep your insulin sensitivity up.
Seems any kind of break from the booze is a good thing nowadays plenty of underdiagnosed conditions starting from the liver good luck.

a drink in the evening watching nature is brillant at 60 plus good for your heart.

Absolutely not.

Study: There is No Safe Level of Drinking Alcohol


http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/no-safe-level-drinking-alcohol-06346.html

Research always says one drink a day is better than being teetotal anyway each to their own.

No goggle it

I'm certainly not tea total but I've certainly no misconceptions about it and wouldn't spout rubbish about it.
I'm sure there is scaremongering and rubbish from the medical profession but I've no doubt it can increase cancer risk never mind liver disease etc.

But I do think these new limits of like "14 units a week and you are a bad binge drinker" - sod off. Wouldn't surprise me if many doctors knock back twice, three times that themself. IMHO there is an element of thinking "lets pitch it very low as they'll always go over what we say anyway", which is patronising and dishonest.

The article explains where the marketed cardiovascular benefits come from.

If possible try to make sense of who pays for and publishes the studies and what their motives could be especially if quoted from the US.
The government,food and health industries like to keep everyone confused so that they can keep peddling their unhealthy goods and drugs that the consumers pay for when the factually healthiest ways to live and prevent disease cost very little.

So life expectancy is 81 years in uk if you drink one glass a day you will only live till 64 do you really believe that?? Queen mother lived till 101 drinking 80 units a week so you believe she should of lived to 121??? when her life expectancy would of been 70 how can these people be 50 years out Queen doing the same so is philip the old lady down the road drinks 3 bottles of sherry a week and still walks 3 miles to town centre at 79 the list goes on.

Do you believe if your teetotal you won't get cancer(friend was proof that's bollox died at 43 of cancer never drink or smoked in his life) do you believe non smokers never get lung cancer look the figures up it's the fastest growing cancer now, like I said all about moderation no matter what you do in life and that includes eating.

P.S If the best you've got is to try and belittle people then I feel sad for you.

Well if you're going down the health route never sit in a traffic Jam or walk along a main road in rush hour, smoke 60 a day it will kill you drink 10 pints a day it will kill you but one **** or one drink a day will not kill you.

football season starting

you will be back on it prepared83

Was it Frank Skinner who said when he gave up the booze it had a devastating effect on his social life.
I think many people especially those who are single, might start wondering what they go to work for if they couldn't go down the pub every night.
Of course it's different if your married or live with a partner.
And for the youngsters it's somewhere to meet up.

Although our religious friends seem to manage okay without the booze, but they're liable to get whipped for it if they drink back home, which might set their minds against it before they come here.

Now let's all hold hands and sing all things bright and beautiful

Millions of people pop pills everyday when they wake up, if you think that's not a poison god help you!! You're liver is the best organ in your body it gets rid of free radicals from alcohol cocaine to diesel fumes and best thing is don't put them in your body for a month you've got a new liver truly amazing.

The liver, however, is able to replace damaged tissue with new cells. If up to 50 to 60 percent of the liver cells may be killed within three to four days in an extreme case like a Tylenol overdose, the liver will repair completely after 30 days if no complications arise.

One glass a day will do your kidneys?

Blood pressure is affected by alcohol.

Andrew Marr used to take a month off drinking occasionally to help his liver.
He suffered a stroke.

today is 8 weeks without a drink now and not sure being a non drinker is for me.
Don't crave one etc but starting to think life is to short not to go out and drink with friends etc and have a few beers in the evening.
Could really do with a pint right now