{"id":3019,"date":"2019-04-08T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:50:09","slug":"how-to-celebrate-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/how-to-celebrate-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Celebrate Safely?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over summer, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate: birthdays, parties, weddings and even just catching up at a barbecue with friends. Socializing is an important part of maintaining our mental health, helping us stay connected to family, friends, and loved ones, but celebration can often come with the \u201csocial lubricant\u201d alcohol, which is America\u2019s most widely used social drug. With the occasional celebratory drink, there is always the risk of overindulgence and the health risks this can bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not alone if you have ever thought to yourself: How\nmuch is too much? What is the magic number of drinks that will avoid a\nhangover? Is there a healthier way to enjoy an occasional drink?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drinking more alcohol increases such dangers as alcoholism, high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, breast cancer, suicide, and accidents. So this summer, why do not you make a commitment to reduce how much alcohol you drink? Your body will thank you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1024x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1024x204.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-768x153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1536x306.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-2048x408.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are four guidelines to reduce health risks from\ndrinking alcohol relevant to adults, which are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For healthy men and women, drinking no more than\ntwo standard drinks on any day reduces the lifetime risk of harm from\nalcohol-related disease or injury.<\/li><li>For healthy men and women, drinking no more than\nfour standard drinks on a single occasion reduces the risk of alcohol-related\ninjury arising from that occasion.<\/li><li>For women who are pregnant or planning a\npregnancy, not drinking is the safest option. <\/li><li>For women who are breastfeeding, not drinking is\nthe safest option.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why it is important to know how much alcohol your\ndrink contains. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as saying one glass of\nwine or one can of beer. In the United States, one \u201cstandard\u201d drink or one\nalcoholic drink equivalent contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is\nfound in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually\nabout 5% alcohol<\/li><li>5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12%\nalcohol<\/li><li>1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about\n40% alcohol<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you know how much alcohol is in your drink? The\nfollowing table shows the number of standard drinks in popular types of\nalcohol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Can low-strength beer &#8211; 0.8 standard drink<\/li><li>Can mid-strength beer &#8211; 1 standard drink<\/li><li>Can full-strength beer &#8211; 1.4 standard drinks <\/li><li>100ml wine (13.5% alcohol) &#8211; 1 standard drink <\/li><li>30ml nip spirits &#8211; 1 standard drink <\/li><li>Can spirits (approx. 5% alcohol) &#8211; 1.2 to 1.7\nstandard drinks <\/li><li>Can spirits (approx. 7% alcohol) &#8211; 1.6 to 2.4\nstandard drinks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dry mouth, splitting headache, light sensitivity, and nausea\nare signs of a hangover. The main cause of a hangover is ethanol, the alcohol\nin your drinks. However, depending on the amount and type of alcohol consumed\nthe effects can vary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hangover is your body\u2019s way of telling you that&nbsp;you\nhave gone too far. Let us not mince words here, if you are experiencing a\nhangover, you have drunk too much. Even one drink can be enough for some people\nto experience a hangover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over summer, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate: birthdays, parties, weddings and even just catching up at a barbecue with friends. Socializing is an important part of maintaining our mental health, helping us stay connected to family, friends, and loved ones, but celebration can often come with the \u201csocial lubricant\u201d alcohol, which is America\u2019s&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/how-to-celebrate-safely\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Celebrate Safely?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[164,259,381,481,487,769],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alcohol","tag-celebrate","tag-drink","tag-guidelines","tag-hangover","tag-safely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}