who knew the italians and english were so, er,
generous in their
definitions
of binge drinking
, compared to our stodgy ol’ puritanical definition of five
drinks:
“Then, too, the CDC’s notion of a binge is different
from that of alcohol researchers in other countries. Hanson notes
that “a recent Swedish study…defines a binge as the consumption
of half a bottle of spirits or two bottles of wine on the same
occasion.” An Italian study viewed eight drinks a day as normal,
while “in the United Kingdom, bingeing is commonly defined as
consuming 11 or more drinks on an occasion.””