Chinese will surpass the US for per capita intake by 2030, research shows, but Moldova claims top spot for now
The world is consuming significantly more alcohol than 30 years ago thanks in large part to heavier and more widespread drinking in China and India, researchers have claimed.
On current trends, global consumption per capita will rise another 17% over the next decade, they reported in The Lancet, after a 10% rise in drinking between 1990 and 2017 .
Continue reading...Health agency advises no more than two glasses a day to cut down alcohol-related disease risk
“Quoi, just two glasses?” asked the headline on the English page of the rolling news station France 24.
It was the incredulous reaction to a campaign launched this week by French health officials seeking to persuade the public to drink no more than two glasses of wine per day – and not every day either.
Continue reading...Is it Vilnius, Seoul, Moscow or Kiev? And what do alcohol consumption statistics tell us about a city and its culture?
“Drinking is seen as a sign of masculinity in Kiev,” says Daria Meshcheryakova. “People don’t understand how a grown man could be sober in the evenings or on holiday – they would wonder what was wrong with them.”
Last year the Ukraine capital’s city council voted to ban shops from selling alcohol between 11pm and 10am in an attempt to curb excessive all-night drinking.
Continue reading...Hundreds more are sick, with many of them critical, says Assam health minister
Eighty-five people have died on tea estates in Assam, north-east India, after drinking poisonous hooch.
Assam’s health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, confirmed on WhatsApp that 85 people had died but the final death toll may be higher as that figure relates only to hospital deaths and not any victims that may have died elsewhere.
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