It’s a simple but beautiful dream: a fine Burgundy with lunch, a few post-work Belgian beers, some rosé with dinner, then maybe a dram of peaty Scotch to end the night. But while a European lifestyle may appear more elegant than another game of ‘Edward Scrumpy Hands’, drinking in this way isn’t necessarily healthier.“It’s wrong to suggest that would be a model you’d want to adopt,” said alcohol research, policy and treatment expert Professor Steve Allsop, who works as director of the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Curtin University in Perth.

– Megan Anderson

Source: The Problem With Our Drinking Culture Is There’s No Culture – The Vocal

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