New Health Advice for Britons: No More Than Six Pints a Week (Published 2016)

A pub in London in 2014. New guidelines in Britain say men and women should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol a week, roughly the equivalent of seven glasses of wine, six pints of beer or half a bottle of whiskey.Credit...Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters LONDON — “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used,” the villain Iago says in Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Britain’s government health