Question regarding 'moderate' alcohol use

[Talitha]

Several times, I've read that moderate alcohol use for healthy adults typically means up to one drink a day for women (me), and up to two drinks a day for men.

One drink is considered:
12 ounces of beer OR 5 ounces of wine OR 1.5 ounces of 40% (80 proof) distilled spirits

Ok, here's where it gets confusing.

The listed drinks contain different alcoholic contents - the beer and the wine have a much lower alcoholic % than the distilled spirits.

So... if I drink wine that's only 9%-13% alcohol, it seems logical that I'd be able to have more than five ounces of it per day and still remain in the 'moderate' consumption range, right?

After all, one glass of wine is nowhere near the % of alcohol in a shot.

[bamagal62]

1. I'm pretty sure covid and Trump

Gives us all a pass on this one.

[Massacure]

2. If my math is right, it's calculated at 0.6 ounces of alcohol per drink.

The assumption being that beer is 5% alcohol, wine is 12% alcohol, and spirits are 40%.

[LizBeth]

3. lol.... Lots of math there. I never empty my glass, and fill so still consider the first glass.

We all have our ways.

I don't think the numbers have to be so very exact. If you don't drink every night, if you have a glass and then some occasionally. I don't know. I drink wine for a while then stop for a while. I haven't had any wine for a couple months but gonna buy a bottle of champagne for News Years.

[AmyStrange]

4. I'll drink to that...

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Nice... now, what was the question again?
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[Talitha]

5. Yeah, it's confusing isn't it?

So by my calculations I should be able to have 4 glasses of 10% wine to equal a 40% shot of rum, right?

Or 16 beers?
I'm not much of a beer drinker but keep a case of Bud 55 Select on hand. It's only 2.5% alcohol and less than 2 carbs... can't beat it, IMO.

[zipplewrath]

6. Time

They never discuss time. I can drink a crap load of whiskey in short period of time. But it can take me forever to go through a case of beer.

[brush]

7. Some days you don't drink, right? So it all averages out if you have...

more than one on other days.

That's the optimist's way of looking at it.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. You sound like me sister!

Before I discovered Craig Beck videos on YouTube.