Professional drinkers health risk

by LotusFlower | January 22, 2009 at 09:02 am

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The working classes are often the ones portrayed in the media as drinking too much and causing problems in the community due to their drinking but when it comes to unhealthy drinking habits the middle classes and above are the leaders with 43% of such households drinking too much on a regular basis with less than a third of manual worker households doing so.

The new report tells us that despite Government warnings and campaigns around unhealthy drinking British adults continue to drink too much.

More than a third of British adults drink over the safe daily alcohol limit recommended by the government, the latest official data revealed today.

Despite public awareness of the dangers of over-indulgence, 37% of adults exceeded the limit in 2007, the Office for National Statistics said.

About 41% of men drank more than 3-4 units of alcohol on at least one day of the week. And 34% of women exceeded their limit of 2-3 units.

Nearly half the adults (43%) in professional and managerial households drank too much, compared with less than one third of working class families with manual or routine jobs (for example, bus drivers or car park attendants).

The ONS said 22% of adults in professional and managerial families also drank on at least five days a week, compared with 11% in routine or manual households.