ALCOHOL IS ONE OF THE CAUSES OF LIVER DAMAGE.

This thread is on alcohol limit for an individual in a week and how to calculate alcohol contents.

The advice is this: individuals who drink should not exceed 14 units of alcohol in a week.

We shall break this down with examples

1 unit of alcohol is 8 grams.

% alcohol means how many grams of alcohol in 100mls.

So, if a drink has 5% alcohol, it means there's 5g in 100mls of the drink. For 60cl (600mls) bottles, that will give us 30 grams.

Examples of beverages and alcohol content

Your average Nigerian beer contains about 5 to 6% alcohol.

Using 5.5%, alcohol content in grams (for 60cl bottles) will be 33 grams = 4.125 units of alcohol.

1 beer bottle = 4 units of alcohol
Weekly limit = 14 units = 3 and half bottles.

Lets move to those small cans of 33cl. Whatsapp group- Gurana.

5.5% alcohol in 33cl

That's 18.15 grams = 2.26 units
Limit = 6 cans in a week

Wines- average of 12% alcohol in 75cl

That's 90 grams in one bottle, bro= 11.25 units already.

Geng

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38% alcohol in 75cl. Some of them in 90 cl.

For 75cl, you have 285 grams in a bottle= 35.6 units.

For 90cl = 342 grams = 42.75 units.

Now that we know how to calculate alcohol contents and convert to units...

Please don't take all your 14 units on Sunday Evening at a go cos you haven't had any all week. Please, it is very dangerous and affects the liver more.

Drink Responsibly

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