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Wine, beer, cider, spirits and many more of our favourite drinks are made from natural starch and sugar. Fermentation (and distillation for certain drinks) is used to produce the alcohol content. It seems, though, that headaches , aggressive fatigue and next-day malaise can come along with any wine, regardless of quality. According to a 2017 Smithsonian article on the democratizing advancements in wine that have made prices comparable to that of bottled water, there are few differences between low and high-end wines that would be measurable to the average consumer. The only exception, however, is the presence of sulfites, often identified as the culprit behind all of wines’ negative side effects. So, what if I could just filter it out? So, drinking three large glasses of wine is the same as drinking a whole bottle (750ml), which, like any binge drinking, can have serious consequences for your health. Binge drinking in the UK, as defined by the NHS, is drinking more than eight units of alcohol in a single session for men, and more than six units of alcohol in a single session for women. If you drink at home, a good way to avoid accidentally pouring too much and limit how many units of alcohol you have is with a measuring cup. Get one from the Drinkaware shop today. Using units is a simpler way of representing a drink's alcohol content – usually expressed by the standard measure alcohol by volume (ABV).
The UK’s Chief Medical Officers advise that, if you choose to drink, it’s safest to drink no more than 14 units a week (for both men and women). It’s also important to spread any drinking over three or more days, with several drink-free days and no bingeing.units is equivalent to 6 pints of average-strength beer or 10 small glasses of lower-strength wine. Calculating units ABV is a measure of the amount of pure alcohol as a percentage of the total volume of liquid in a drink. Try drinking with a meal or eating a healthy dinner before you have drinks. This may help you eat less healthy options later in the evening. It takes an average adult around an hour to process one unit of alcohol so that there's none left in their bloodstream, although this varies from person to person. And the more you drink, the longer it takes – so, six units of alcohol would take the average person six hours to process.
As an example, a pint of average strength beer (4% ‘alcohol by volume’, or ABV – see below for explanation) has about two units in it, while a single measure (25ml) of typical spirits is one unit. Unfortunately that is not the case and wine is one of the most controversial of all food stuffs when it comes to additives – it is just about the only food or beverage on the market that doesn’t have to list it’s ingredients on the label – have you ever wondered why? The (EU) authorities explain it away by saying “it’s complicated”– wine production is huge business in the founding EU countries of course. But they don’t tell you the reason why it’s complicated – that somewhere around 60 different additives are permitted in mainstream wines and over 40 are now permitted in EU Certified Organic wines. If these factory produced wines stated their ingredients on the label the chances are the vast majority of people would never buy another bottle again.Regularly having just one or two heavy drinking episodes a week will increase your risk of death from long-term illness and from accidents and injuries. 1 Purewine has been invented and developed by winemaker James Pennington BSc BApp Sc to allow wine consumers to enjoy wine without preservatives. James spent his early years as a science teacher but always wanted to use this knowledge in a practical way. He began in the wine industry over 30 years ago, starting off developing vineyards and ending up as a qualified winemaker. During this time he became aware of the many problems that people had when enjoying a wine and set himself the task of finding a solution. Drinking in rounds can mean you end up drinking more than you intended. Instead, drink at your own pace.
Understanding how many units of alcohol you drink is a great first step to looking after your health. But what is a unit, and what does it mean? What is an alcohol unit? We hear plenty of reports about how two glasses of wine a day can give you cancer – that is precisely because these factory wines are full of chemical additives which are very harmful to your health. Sulphites have been “strongly linked” to causing cancer, have been requested to be banned by the Centre for Scientific Research in the Public Interest, and have been recommended to be phased out by the World Health Organisation. Plus anybody in remission for cancer is told to avoid all sulphites in their diet. According to Dr Phil Norrie (AKA The Wine Doctor), regular consumption of sulphite free wines on the other hand, due to their powerful antioxidants, can actually help prevent the likelihood of contracting cancer by as much as 50% and have a whole host of other health benefits. Our Wine Have a glass of water after every alcoholic drink – this will help to prevent you becoming dehydrated. With so many different drinks and glass sizes, from shots to pints – not to mention bottles – it's easy to get confused about how many units are in your drink.
For example, a pint of strong lager contains 3 units of alcohol, whereas the same volume of lower-strength lager has just over 2 units. One unit is 10ml (millilitres) or 8g (grams) of pure alcohol. Because alcoholic drinks come in different strengths and sizes, units are a way to tell how strong your drink is, which can also help you to make comparisons.
For example, wine that says "12% ABV" or "alcohol volume 12%" means 12% of the volume of that drink is pure alcohol. Finally the bottling stage – chances are the wine is poor quality as it has been made from cheap low grade fruit. It will be very low in natural antioxidants so will need extra preservatives added – yet more huge doses of sulphites. A lot of wine is bottled in the UK to save a few pence on transport so is brought over here in inflatable bladders inside tankers, much like oil. These bladders are permeable and let in the air so huge amounts of sulphites are added so the wine will withstand the journey.This is why alcohol contains lots of calories – 7 calories per gram, which is almost as many as a gram of fat. Plus, additional calories can be in added mixer drinks, such as cola or tonic water. One unit equals 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol, which is around the amount of alcohol the average adult can process in an hour. Regularly drinking more than the NHS recommends can have a noticeable impact on your waistline and cause less obvious, but more serious, health problems. Pubs and bars used to commonly serve spirits (like vodka, gin, rum or whisky) in 25ml measures - that’s about one unit of alcohol per measure. But these days many pubs and bars have switched to 35ml or 50ml measures – meaning you might be having a lot more alcohol without realising.
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