The Good Drinker
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The Good Drinker

How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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eBook - ePub

The Good Drinker

How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

About this book

As heard on BBC Radio 4

'Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful' Observer

'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit'

Prof David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health

The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation.

The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Still, it wasn't very good for him: the doctor made that clear. If you lined them up, Adrian must have knocked back three miles of drinks. How many of them had he genuinely wanted? A mile?

There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Two important points
  5. Two blokes in two streets and a bloke who wrote a book
  6. My starting point
  7. Looking back
  8. Early years
  9. What qualifies me to write this book
  10. Units, and counting the bloody things
  11. Why not stop completely?
  12. Getting served
  13. A drink problem? Me?
  14. Urge surfing
  15. What happened when I went to an AA meeting
  16. Drink Like Helen B. Merry
  17. His name is Bryn and he is a moderator
  18. Gap year
  19. 14 Units a week? Impossible!
  20. University
  21. Her name is Llana and she is a moderator
  22. Why the health warnings don’t apply to me
  23. Underage again
  24. Moderation is hard
  25. Twenties
  26. His name is John and he is a moderator
  27. For the love of drinking, drink less
  28. Thirties
  29. Beige
  30. What I wish more doctors would say
  31. Vicky and Tim
  32. My boozing bucket list
  33. Forties
  34. A pint under a hawthorn tree
  35. What I learned from Lee Mack (or, ‘It could all be a giant con’)
  36. Something Roy Keane said
  37. Her name is Marisa and she is a moderator
  38. Shahroo and kindness
  39. At the races
  40. That first drink
  41. A funny feeling
  42. Work in progress
  43. Thanks
  44. Copyright