People seem confused about sensible drinking messages

Knowledge of drinking guidelines does not equal sensible drinking.

Binge Drinking: A Confused Concept and its Contemporary History

Binge drinking is a matter of current social, political and media concern. It has a longterm, but also a recent, history. This paper discusses the contemporary history of the concept of binge drinking. In recent years there have been significant changes in how binge drinking is defined and conceptualised. Going on a ‘binge’ used to mean an extended period (days) of heavy drinking, while now it ...

Alcohol consumption and cancer risk: revisiting guidelines for sensible drinking.

sensible drinking are not new and have varied across time and place. In 1981, concerned by the increase in admissions to hospital for alcohol-related diseases in the United Kingdom, health educators and clinicians developed the general concept of sensible drinking. Drinking sensibly was defined as the opposite of alcohol misuse, which is “drinking to excess or drinking in situations which are n...

Two Results about Quantum Messages

The comparison of communication protocols using quantum messages with protocols using classical messages is a central topic in information and communication theory. It is always good to understand such questions well in the simplest settings where they arise. An example is the setting of one-way communication complexity, which is rich enough to lead to many interesting questions, yet accessible...

Young people: not as healthy as they seem.

Over the past 25 years, there have been major shifts in causes of mortality and morbidity among young people (aged 10–24 years). HIV/AIDS was essentially unknown 25 years ago, and other infectious diseases, such as pulmonary infections, were leading causes of death in this age-group. Suicide was less common than it is today, and deaths from motor vehicles were much less frequent in many countri...