This article's mention of binge sobriety got me thinking about the whole binge thing and how the vast news and media machine needs content. The competition for attention is high and every media stream needs something new to shout out to get attention.
Food, diets are linked to health and always favourites of the media.
The science is against binge sobriety and for regular alcohol breaks during the week but as this is a regular, common on going things it's not as news worth as a dry January. We can tell our friends with a puffed out chest that we're following the latest fad diet or going dry for January. It sounds exiting and dramatic. Much more exciting and dramatic that saying we don't drink Monday night to Thursday night if at home and, now that sugar is the latest bogey man (warning - Daily Mail link!), keep an ongoing watchful eye in the GI levels of our diet.
Even moderation should be done in moderation!
The current medical consensus is for a few dry, alcohol free days a week and to reduce the high levels of high GI foods in our diet on an daily and on going basis. Unfortunately for the media this advice does not lend itself to the regular generation of news headlines.
Food, diets are linked to health and always favourites of the media.
The science is against binge sobriety and for regular alcohol breaks during the week but as this is a regular, common on going things it's not as news worth as a dry January. We can tell our friends with a puffed out chest that we're following the latest fad diet or going dry for January. It sounds exiting and dramatic. Much more exciting and dramatic that saying we don't drink Monday night to Thursday night if at home and, now that sugar is the latest bogey man (warning - Daily Mail link!), keep an ongoing watchful eye in the GI levels of our diet.
Even moderation should be done in moderation!
The current medical consensus is for a few dry, alcohol free days a week and to reduce the high levels of high GI foods in our diet on an daily and on going basis. Unfortunately for the media this advice does not lend itself to the regular generation of news headlines.
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