rows of bottles of different types of wine at Boca, 65 Peel Street, SoHo, Central. 16 August 2006 (Photo by Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images) South China Morning Post via Getty Images This past spring, the British medical journal The Lancet covered a study which reported an upsurge in alcohol consumption. The lead author, Jakob Manthey, of Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (TUD) told Lancet the study shows that alcohol will remain a leading disease risk factor in the foreseeable future. The study took in alcohol consumption in 189 countries over almost two decades, beginning in 1990. The claim is that alcohol consumption had increased over that time by about 10%, from nearly 6 liters of pure alcohol from any beverage source per adult annually to 6.5 liters. For perspective, and if my conversion math is correct, that’s roughly 7 cases of wine annually, or 84 bottles within 365 days, or 5.8 ounces of wine per day (it’s per capita; not every adult dr...
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