Two glasses of wine per night (ahem) equates to 42 units per week.
The maximum recommended is 14 units. I should reduce my intake to this level.
Doctors, eh?
You've quit the fags?
I assumed you were kidding.
The other factors were size, exercise and balanced diet. Basically if you are a larger male, exercise regularly and have a balanced diet the 14 units or even 21 units is nonsense. I described something like a 40-50 unit consumption per week and his feedback was that as I exercised regularly, did not take drugs or smoke, had a balanced diet and was 6' 3" and 15 stone that there was no issue.
So I now consume about 80 units a week.
Ah, but my cholestoral results were 'astonishingly good', I'm bang on the correct weight, exercise daily and don't eat processed food, so, apparently, I'm all good and will live forever.
I did notice that his medical degree was issued by the University of Addis Ababa, mind.