TIPS TO DRINK BETTER

Spread your units around. Give the liver a day in between to recover. Drinking slowly, and rehydrating with water, is sage advice. Jarvis suggests drinking from smaller glasses at home and keeping a unit measure in the drinks cabinet. Spirits are difficult to judge by eye; one survey found when people were asked to pour a single measure of spirits into a glass at home, they poured three. Choose wisely. Darker drinks are higher in congeners, a by-product produced when fermented yeast becomes ethanol. These congeners are toxic to the body, and are believed to give red wine, whisky and tequila their sting.