Gallon jugs also have lids a closed container provides another type of risk reduction. #alcoholawareness #harmreductionstrategies #borgawareness #healthpromotion #publichealth ♬ Aesthetic - Tollan Kim Drinking 128 ounces of ANYTHING is not safe and we do not advise anyone to do so. Remember that you get to choose what goes into your borg and you don’t need to include alcohol. Spacing and pacing your drinks is a great way to stay hydrated and help you count how many aclohol related beverages you may consume. "It's always better to know what is in one's drink than to trust whoever mixed up something like a communal drink bowl."īarr agrees communal drinks are dangerous for a variety of reasons - you don't know what germs are lurking in the container or the hands that mixed it, you don't know what else is mixed in and it's hard to know how many drinks you're #duet with #borg Check out what Danielle, our Coordinator of Prevention & Recovery, has to say about borgs! This CAN be a great way to practice safe drinking strategies when utlaized appropriately. "There are certain obvious benefits to drinking from one's own container and not sharing it," Koob says. "It's important for students to know that caffeine, particularly in large amounts, can interfere with the ability to recognize how intoxicated one is, which can increase the risks of negative outcomes," he says.Īre there any upsides to the trend? In terms of risk reduction, borgs may have an edge compared to other college drinking trends like "jungle juice" or "party juice," communal vats of alcoholic beverages. Koob explains some of these products can contain 1000 milligrams or more of caffeine, which is equivalent to about 10 cups of coffee. In addition, some borg recipes call for caffeinated flavor enhancer, which may pose an additional risk. Koob adds, there is "no known perfectly safe level of alcohol consumption." "It is unknown how many students actually follow borg recipes that call for a half gallon of vodka, but doing so could turn deadly depending on how much they end up consuming." Will be hard to dodge the added sugars because it’s hidden in many unexpected products, and sugar isn't the only bad guy, but it's a good start."Consuming this much alcohol would be fatal for the vast majority of people, even if spread out over a full day," he notes. I don't believe in health shaming, I believe in updated and innovative health education for all and reforms to make nutritious food more accessible to people from all socioeconomic backgrounds.Įveryone deserves to be given the tools and opportunity to live a long and healthy life.ĭo you think these are good measures? What do we need to to create a healthier society? □ We need to be nudged in the right direction. Introduce mandatory labelling of healthy food, which guides the consumer in stores and encourages producers to develop their products to qualify for the label. Limit the possibility of selling unhealthy food in or near schools and other tax-funded activities where children and young people stay.Ĥ. Introduce economic control measures such as tax on sugar in soft drinks and reduced VAT on healthy food.ģ. Protect children and young people from the marketing of unhealthy food through stricter legislation.Ģ. Here are the four actions the nutritionists propose:ġ. They argue it’s difficult for individuals to change their habits when over 80% of billboard food advertising promotes an unhealthy lifestyle. The main responsibility lies with policymakers, not individuals, according to them. We need clean and healthy, brain and body-friendly foods to dominate the food isles, and we need it now.Ī new debate article authored by fifteen nutritionists in Sweden, are demanding action to make eating healthy easier and decentivise the junk. Uncomfortable truth: our culture makes it easy to keep up damaging food habits that accelerate our ageing. Why is eating healthy considered dieting?
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