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Drinking adequate water will have made a big difference to your health but you can also benefit from the right attitude to alcohol. Moderate levels of drinking can reduce your risk of heart disease. In 1997 the World Health Organisation recommended one drink every other day. In the UK it has been recommended that we drink no more than two to three units of alcohol per day for women and three to four units for men with two or three days each week with no alcohol. A unit is roughly one small glass of wine, half a pint of beer or one pub measure of spirits but this obviously varies with the strength of drinks. Alcohol can also be an unthought of source of calories. A pint of bitter may have up to 200 calories with a strong ale stout or cider having more than this. A small (125ml) glass of wine will probably have just less than half this amount (although sweet white wine will have more calories). A switch to wine may also be beneficial because it contains something called polyphenols. These are antioxidants that are believed to help the body fight disease. For example as well as fighting heart disease a moderate red wine intake was found to help reduce the risk of catching colds by researchers in Spain.
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