Big Fish and Chip: Why do Brits drink so much?

Big Fish with Spencer Matthews

Global

Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

British women have recently topped a list of the world’s biggest binge drinkers. In this episode I'm asking why do Brits drink so much? It's important to note that men were found to consistently drink more heavily than women do, including in the UK where 45% of men and 26% of women are binge drinkers.

This episode covers:

1'00 - What is binge drinking?

4'00 - What's the difference between alcohol dependency and binge-pattern drinking?

7'00 - Why do Brits drink so much?

19'00 - Top tips for how you can drink less this Christmas

Transcript

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0:00.0	Look at him go.
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0:18.9	Into its QuickBooks.
0:22.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:30.6	Hello and welcome to Big Fish and Chip.
0:33.5	Every Friday I'm joined by my former therapist Chip Summers
0:36.2	to unpack what's going on in my life and discuss how we can all become the best versions of ourselves.
0:41.7	Today's episode, I'm asking the question, why is the UK a nation of binge drinkers?
0:47.8	British women have recently topped the list of the world's biggest binge drinkers.
0:52.5	The OECD compared alcohol consumption across 38 member
0:56.9	countries and the UK came out on top. Right, firstly, let's define binge drinking. So
1:07.3	yeah, I think there's a bit of, I think there's a bit of a myth around binge drinking.
1:11.8	There is such a thing clinically as binge pattern alcohol dependency.
1:16.7	And that is the sort of person who doesn't really drink anything at all.
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