The risks of drinking too much
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Regularly drinking more than 14 units a week risks damaging your health.
14 units is equivalent to six pints of average-strength beer or ten small glasses of low-strength wine.
New evidence around the health harms from regular drinking have emerged in recent years.
There is now a better understanding of the link between drinking and some illnesses, including a range of cancers.
The previously held position that some level of alcohol was good for the heart has been revised.
It is now thought...
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