FUN FACT: MORE MIDDLE-AGED MEN DIE FROM BINGE DRINKING THAN COLLEGE STUDENTS

(January, 2015) What is “binge drinking”? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines it as women who have four or more drinks on an occasion and men who have five or more. Actually, nearly every week, more than 38 million people report consuming an average of eight drinks during one episode, or binge. That kind of heavy drinking over a short period, such as two to three hours, can prove fatal. Who dies more from binge drinking? Most of the estimated 1.5 billion binge-drinking episodes each year involve Americans 26 and older. But researchers were surprised to find that those aged 35 to 64 accounted for three-fourths of America’s roughly 2,200 alcohol-poisoning deaths each year from 2010 to 2012.
* So the takeaway is – Pace yourself, Grandpa!
* Baby Boomers? More like Baby Boozers!
* I got a hangover just reading this story.
* Great, so they give us some more bad news to drink about.