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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mind & body magazine
28 May 2008


Adding up your units

Do you know how strong your favourite drink is? A recent YouGov poll found that many people in England don't know the strength of common alcoholic drinks. For example:

  • 77% of the people interviewed didn't know how many units are in a large glass of wine,
  • 55% thought a large glass of wine contains two units - it contains three,
  • 35% didn't know that an average pint of beer contains two units, and
  • 58% didn't know that a double gin and tonic contains two units.
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