[tangue]

The toxic effects of alcohol are cumulative over time, so in the long run you might be at greater risk than binge drinkers. And if you're drinking 4 beers you 're not far from the threshold for liver disease [1] ( 1 liter of beer at 7% = 56 g of alcohol; the threshold is 50g). Alcohol is also linked to high blood pressure; you should check yours. Besides all that alcohol is also high in calories and you'll have to deal overweight issues too.

I have a friend like you, he drinks to unwind, and I don't consider him an alcoholic, I'm just sad that in ten years he 'll be in bad shape.

[1] http://www.institutdanone.org/objectif-nutrition/nutrition-a... (in French)

[throwawaywayway]

Thank you for your response. It's a bit of surprise to me, because I had always heard the opposite, that daily drinking lets one build up a tolerance while binge drinking repeatedly hits the liver with more than it can handle, but I suppose that was just folk wisdom. I've cooled off a bit over the years (originally I drank to deal with depression that I eventually "got over"), but maybe it's time I took another hard look at myself.

[jorisw]

  And if you're drinking 4 beers you 're not far
  from the threshold for liver disease [1]
  ( 1 liter of beer at 7% = 56 g of alcohol;
  the threshold is 50g).

It is exactly this type of information that the public needs to be made aware of. Not "drinking is bad", but factual information that a person can measure their behavior against.