However, regardless of whether you can taste the liquor, one mixed drink might contain much more than a single standard drink. Determining how many standard drinks are in your mixed drink comes ...

The beer-making process determines its ABV. Beer is brewed from barley, a grain packed with sugar that ferments over time with the help of yeast. As the barley ferments, the yeast feeds on the sugar ...

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Drinking as few as one standard drink per day raises the risk of certain cancers. But Murthy cautioned that while “there may not be a zero-risk level, there are lower risks and there are higher ...

Even with these guidelines, alcoholic beverages don’t have explicit labeling informing consumers of how their drink compares with the standard, said Matthew Rossheim, associate professor of ...

This risk increases to 1 in 100 if they consume more than 8.5 standard drinks per week. Seven drinks per week — one per day — is within what the dietary guidelines define as “moderate ...

The amount you drink affects your risk. The surgeon general’s report defines a standard drink as containing 14 grams of alcohol — about the amount in a 5-ounce glass of wine, a 12-ounce beer ...

"If you really want to stay in the non-risky drinking zone, you would be drinking no more than one to two standard drinks per week," Lembke says. She's a professor of psychiatry and addiction ...

Today, public health researchers have a lot more information on the long-term effects of alcohol use, and cancer should be on everyone’s radar. Women, in particular, should heed the ...