New UK drink guidelines ‘to target wine’

The supposed health benefits of drinking red wine are expected to be rebuffed in major new drinking guidelines being published by the British chief medical officer tomorrow.

Sally Davies, the UK’s chief medical officer (Photo: Wiki)

Past research has shown that red wine consumption may help with everything from preventing cancer to aiding weight loss.

But tomorrow’s report by Dame Sally Davies aims to present “competing evidence” against such claims, according to an article in The Sun.

“The report will send a clear signal that the dangers of drinking are far more than previously thought”, a source told the newspaper.

The new guidelines are also expected to lower the amount of alcohol drinkers are advised to consume to no more than one-and-a-half pints of beer a day.

This new advice will especially affect men, who will be told that they should no longer think that they can drink more than women.

The report will also advise drinkers to take at least two days of complete abstinence per week, and rubbish the idea of a “safe” alcohol limit, according to the newspaper.

The new official drinking guidelines will be the first in the UK in over 20 years, when the health benefits of drinking small amounts of wine for tackling illnesses such as heart disease were being hailed by British medical chiefs.