'Alcohol and food: making the public health connections' (pdf), a literature review into the links surrounding alcohol and food, has been published by the the Liverpool John Moore's University.
The report makes interesting reading through exploring the position of alcohol within lifestyle contexts centred around food consumption. The important links between calorie intake, the way food and alcohol are used or affect each other, and a range of issues and popular myths are explored. Chapters include:
- Alcohol as a food
- Combined consumption - the positive health effects?
- Harms related to both food and alcohol
- Interventions for promoting healthy food and alcohol consumption
- Discussion
The report states:
"UK policy must address the links between alcohol and food in order to maximise the effectiveness of public health responses and enable people to make better informed choices about eating and drinking. We urgently need to move away from seeing alcohol as a means to achieve inebriation to regarding it as an accompaniment to food with both being consumed in moderation."
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