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Letter: Call that low?

Published 11 December 1999

From Chris Wilkinson

The article on the effect of a low or moderate alcohol diet on healing liver
damage in rats contained an interesting comment: “. . . the rats on the
low-ethanol diet—equivalent to a person drinking two or three pints of
beer a day . . .”
(13 November, p 17).

If I could convince my wife that two to three pints of beer a day is a
low-alcohol diet, then I would be one very happy engineer.

Imagine, two pints of my favourite ale every day for therapeutic
purposes—ah, bliss.

Turramurra, New South Wales

Issue no. 2216 published 11 December 1999

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