September 04, 2018 12:14 Koreans are drinking more alcohol but eating less protein, and there is still too much salt in their diet despite wall-to-wall health coverage in the media. ◆ Drinking The Ministry of Health and Welfare surveyed 10,000 households and found that alcohol consumption increased 2.5 times from 46.5 g on average a day in 1998 to 115.6 g in 2016, perhaps because more people are happy to drink alone. Men still drink much more than women at 182.2 g of alcohol a day, but women are also drinking much harder than they used to, with the amount almost tripling from 16.6 g a day to 48.6 g over the same 18 years period. An even bigger problem is high-risk drinking, which is set at more than seven shot glasses of soju or five cans of beer in one sitting at least twice a week. Some 21.2 percent of men fall into this category. Among men in their 70s, high-risk drinkers dwindled from 12.8 to 6.3 percent over the period, but among those in their 20s it rose from 13 to 17.7 percent and among 30-somethings from 19.3 to 23.5 percent. Among women, high-risk drinkers rose 1.5 to… Read full this story
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