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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Three drinks and you're out

Michael Bachelard and Heath Gilmore

June 15, 2008

THREE glasses of wine during dinner is about to be redefined as a binge-drinking episode under the Federal Government's new official drinking guidelines to be released next month.

In what one health professional has slammed as a message that "makes no sense at all", the guidelines will say that having more than four standard drinks a day constitutes a binge. An average glass of wine is 1.5 standard drinks.
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