http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/07/binge.drinking.ap
The focus of this article is that supposedly the beverage of choice for "binge" drinkers is beer. Now, when I think of binge drinking I'm reminded of a frat or bachelor party or something similar where people get absolutely obliterated in a very short time. According to this report "A binge drinker was defined as someone who had five or more alcoholic drinks on at least one occasion in the last 30 days."
Well, hell, I do that at least twice a month and most people would be hard-pressed to know that I'd been drinking at all. How many guys here haven't consumed a 6-pack or more on a Saturday afternoon while just laying around the pool, or smoking brisket in the backyard, or taking down the neighbor's trees with a chainsaw?
If they're saying that "About 15 percent of U.S. adults fit that profile, and most are men", well maybe it's just because a lot of U.S. males like to drink beer. That doesn't make it binge drinking, fer fook's sake.
Now if you find yourself waking up in another state with a new tattoo and lying next to a female-like being more than once a month, you can probably consider yourself a binge drinker. Anybody else, fuhgeddaboudit.
The focus of this article is that supposedly the beverage of choice for "binge" drinkers is beer. Now, when I think of binge drinking I'm reminded of a frat or bachelor party or something similar where people get absolutely obliterated in a very short time. According to this report "A binge drinker was defined as someone who had five or more alcoholic drinks on at least one occasion in the last 30 days."
Well, hell, I do that at least twice a month and most people would be hard-pressed to know that I'd been drinking at all. How many guys here haven't consumed a 6-pack or more on a Saturday afternoon while just laying around the pool, or smoking brisket in the backyard, or taking down the neighbor's trees with a chainsaw?
If they're saying that "About 15 percent of U.S. adults fit that profile, and most are men", well maybe it's just because a lot of U.S. males like to drink beer. That doesn't make it binge drinking, fer fook's sake.
Now if you find yourself waking up in another state with a new tattoo and lying next to a female-like being more than once a month, you can probably consider yourself a binge drinker. Anybody else, fuhgeddaboudit.
