Mixing Your Drinks: Alcohol and Exercise
A YouGov survey, on behalf of the Know Your Limits campaign shows that 19 per cent of adults in England who exercise regularly and drink alcohol admit to taking exercise or playing sport in order to “make up” for having drunk a lot of alcohol in the previous few days. The story has been covered here and here.
The tendency to ‘work out the alcohol’ is even more prevalent among heavy drinkers: the survey shows one in five English adults are drinking more than double the NHS recommended limits and, of those who also exercise, over a quarter (28%) admit doing so to make up for their drinking.
This compares to just 10 per cent of people who exercise and drink at ‘lower risk’ – those who do not regularly drink more than 3-4 units a day for men, and 2-3 units a day for women.
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