Effects of Binge Drinking
When it comes to drinking, the law of averages doesn’t apply. Although one drink a day might benefit your health in the long run, the same doesn’t apply to saving up all those weekday drinks and consuming six to seven drinks on one weekend night. This habit is known as binge drinking, and it’s the riskiest pattern of consumption, Sharon C. Wilsnack, a professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, told “The Washington Post.” When you binge-drink -- meaning that you consume more than five drinks in two hours if you’re a man and four drinks if you’re a woman -- the health effects are much like those of a heavy drinker. The rates of high blood pressure increase, and you’re more likely to have a stroke.
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