How Much Can You Drink?
Alcohol is a drug. We're often told that too much endangers our health - yet there's also some evidence that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers. So how much is too much? Exactly when does the physical damage begin? And what about individual differences - for instance why do some light drinkers develop liver disease and other heavy drinkers get away with it?
There's a significant difference in men's and women's capacity to cope with alcohol, and American research now indicates that pregnant women shouldn't drink any alcohol at all.
Tonight's programme asks: what are the effects of alcohol on all of us who enjoy a regular drink? Narrator PAUL vaughan
Film editor STEFAN RONOWICZ Horizon editor graham massey Written and produced by FANNY PRIOR , ANNIS BARR