What is 'moderation'? Seems like most people (the ones who aren't teetotalers) would say they drink 'in moderation' and their definitions could vary from meaning 1-3 drinks a year to 1-3 drinks a day to some other metric (e.g. drinking however much but not to the point of drunkenness, having different measures for different beverages, etc.). Just like how most people would say that their dog is smarter than average. There's no real metric and not everybody can be simultaneously 'right'. Do we need one? It's disconcerting when one study defines 'moderation' as 1-3 drinks a day and another as 1-3 drinks a month. But it would probably be quite a complicated system if you had to account for type of drink, body differences, rate of consumption, etc. How would you define drinking 'in moderation'? Also, first one to make a joke about 'Moderation' being a bar down the street gets a swat on the nose for telling an old, overused, and uncreative joke. Second gets two swats.
As long as you are always in control of yourself and not doing any harm to your general health, I would say your drinking is "moderate." I would even go so far as to say that that isn't even that controversial of a definition.
Emphasis mine. It can never be an exact science. Too many variables, not only from individual to individual, but per individual based on circumstance.
For me, it's approximately once a decade. No wait - 15 years. I had a beer at my high school reunion in '95. Peer pressure. Anyhoo, my real answer would be if you had, say, one beer a day with a meal, and then went out with your friends on Fri or Sat night and got a pleasant buzz on. But if you're like my friend Neil who sucked down a 12-pack or so a day and spent his nights unconscious with a bottle of Jack rigged to an IV, then, well...
Sorry to hear Neil has fallen on hard times. But he can sure knock em' back for a Jew! BTW why is Neil holding an imaginary penis on this album cover? If that what happens when he drinks or what?
For me, drinking in moderation simply means that I don't drink very often and when I do, I don't drink to get drunk. Again, no real metric, as you say.
Moderation is quite the subjective term. If you and your physician significantly disagree on what constitutes moderation, I would treat that as a red flag.
I don't know about "I took a dump in your tuba," but I do have a friend who got drunk enough once that he took a piss in the fridge . . .
Anything less than a 12 pack a day or a pint of 80 proof liquor. Anything over that you got problems.
I probably everage 1-3 drinks every couple of months. That's pretty moderate, I would think. On that note, I have a bottle of Hiram Walker Peach Brandy in the kitchen... I believe I'll have a dram or 2.
Apricot or blackberry brandy. Can't decide which I like more. Come to think of it, I haven't had any in a decade or so. It's time.
I like the Hiram Walker peach. The brand was established in 1858 so it's period correct for the CW, and what's more Southern than a peach?
I average about two beers per month. Then, on the weekends, I'll tie one on about once a month or so. I'm having Jim Beam and Coke now.
All that hard stuff makes my stomach hurt, not in a nauseated kind of way but in a punch-to-the-solar-plexus way. Is that normal for someone who normally doesn't drink more than half a glass of wine at a time? Is it like an acquired taste - an acquired stomach-ache tolerance?
In the UK moderate drinking is classed as around 10 pints of beer a weak, or whichever is the alcohol content equivilant in wine or spirits. Thats the level the Doctors say won't fuck up your health. Course most of us Brits go over that, primarily because social binge drinking has been accepted for generations in the UK and Europe, and I'm not talking about chavs getting loud and pissed, but rather, for instance, middle aged professionals having a say three to five glasses of wine or whiskey perhaps 2 to 3 times a week. Mind you, personally, I am at an age where my body struggles to handle that sort of thing these days so I have to force myself to stay away from it as much as possible. There was a time when I could drink every day if I wanted without feeling at all bad. Alas that is no longer the case. If I go out for a drink up it usually takes me 3 to 4 days to properly recover.
Sometimes I go weeks without having any alcohol at all. Other times (like for the past few months), I'll have 6-12 beers while I'm barbecueing on the patio. Then there are times like at a coworker's going-away party where I'll have close to twenty drinks (I think I had about a dozen Black Russians that night on top of all the other drinks). The funny part is that I wasn't even all that drunk.
