When Binging, 3 out of 4 Adults Prefer Beer

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• August 8, 2007 at 4:18 am #7861
  David Lauterbach

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  Binge-drinking is popular across a spectrum of age groups, but recent analyses reveal that adults have a preference for beer binges while teens tend to swill the harder spirits.<br />
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  &quot;Beer accounted for more than three times as many drinks as the next most common beverage types,&quot; said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who found that nearly 75 percent of adult men and women who binge exclusively prefer beer, 17 percent drank the harder stuff and 9 percent drank wine. &quot;Beer is king when it comes to binge drinking.&quot;<br />
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  As I can attest, not all binge drinkers all are chug-a-lugging frat boys. &quot;People of college age 18 to 25 account for only 30 percent of all binge drinking episodes,&quot; Naimi said.<br />
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  Dr. Naimi also defined binge drinkers (which, by his accounts, are all readers of this site) and added to his definition… &quot;binge drinkers tend to imbibe at least 5 or more drinks one drink after another, which leads to a host of calamities — some of them deadly — such as auto accidents as well as aberrant sexual behavior.&quot;<br />
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  Read the original story at <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/am-drink0808,0,2618937.story"><strong>Newsday</strong></a&gt;

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