The Ministry of Health has identified a safe dose of alcohol per day

Ministry of Health identified dose of alcohol, which does not carry significant health risks. Shortly thereafter, the deputy head of the Ministry of Health, Oleg Salagaev disproved this message.

Statements were made by experts from the National Medical Research Center of Preventive Medicine, which belongs to the Ministry of Health. According to them, women can drink a day for 200 ml of wine fortress about 12%, and men - 900 ml of beer fortress 4.5%. We are talking about a maximum of two standard drinks per day for women and three for men. The standard portion - is 10 grams of pure alcohol.

Salagaev do not agree with this statement. He said that, according to current scientific data, a useful proportion of alcohol does not exist. However, there are exceptions, said the official.

It is one thing - the use of glasses of red wine a man with hypertension over 60 years in the calm home, the other - the use of the same glasses of a young man who plans to take over wheel.

Oleg Salagaev, deputy head of the Ministry of Health

The deputy minister added that these two cases are completely different risks. He also noted that due to such messages from people formed "unduly frivolous" attitude to alcohol.

In the original statement, the experts made a couple of reservations. They pointed out that two days a week should be sober, to alcohol is not harmful to health. They also pointed out that even the use of secure portions "can lead to problems if the drinking took place at the wrong time or in the wrong place."