"I drink excessively," he said.
I've seen all the education, I don't think I drink excessively but if you put me on a scale according to the Government I am off the scale but, I feel fit, healthy.. (Male, Focus group 3)" When discussions focused upon the more severe health and social order impact of alcohol use, negative language and the construction of stereotypes were used to dissociate this from personal 'acceptable' use.
But, even someone like Mr. Lodor who claims, as I did, "I'm in good shape, I don't eat meat, I don't drink excessively, I've never smoked," can, at 53, get a medical surprise that he won't be able to pay for.
"I'm in good shape, I don't eat meat, I don't drink excessively, I've never smoked," said Mr. Lodor, 53, who estimates he would have to spend at least $1,200 a month to cover himself and his college-age daughter.
He said he drank excessively for 40 years.
It once seemed that only people who drank excessively were at risk for fatty liver disease.
Wired in the evenings with extreme anxiety, he drank excessively to get himself to sleep.
He became a habitué of the literary cafés of Moscow, where he gave poetry recitals and drank excessively.
His two marriages (the second was to the political columnist Dorothy Thompson) ended in divorce, and he drank excessively.
He drank excessively, it was rumored, and Henry Green — an aristocrat of a non-Puritan sort — certainly did.
Nearly a quarter had high cholesterol and 12% had high blood pressure, while 11% drank excessively and the same percentage smoked daily.
