Department of Health guidelines recommend that if you drink alcohol
you should stay within the daily guidelines and spread the amount
you drink over a week, allowing for one or two alcohol free days per
week.
The daily guidelines are:
Binge drinking is particularly dangerous. Are you a binge drinker? The answer is yes if you consume your weekly recommended safe limit of alcohol in one session - especially if you set out with the objective of getting drunk.
The reason that the limits for women are less than for men is because the body composition of women has less water than men. Therefore, even if a man and woman are of similar size and weight, the woman will tend to get drunk faster.
Women can also develop liver disease at lower levels of drinking
than men.