[Sca-cooks] Binge drinking

[Terry Decker]

I don't know about the "binge."  That suggests extended gaps between bouts 
of intoxication.  The general use of alcohol in period sounds more like the 
steady imbibing of the alcoholic.  One of the studies I read calculates that 
the average person drank a gallon of ale or beer per day or slightly under a 
pint an hour and that it was a large part of the day's calorie count. 
Besides, everyone knows binging is unhealthy while such drinking was 
healthy, contributing to the "phlegmatic" personality.

Bear

> Binge-drinking an age-old problem
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4455912.stm
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