Keeping track of those not-so-healthy habits, like how much wine you guzzle or beer you drink is not easy but now there’s a smartphone app – Alcohol Tracker to do that.
Developed by doctors in Singapore, the Alcohol Tracker is an app that tracks a person’s drinking habits on both a daily and weekly basis. It lets users enter how many drinks they have each day and if a user drinks more than the maximum amount of alcohol recommended by certain health organizations, then the app will send a notification, warning that the recommended limit has been reached. They developed it as a way to counteract the use of other apps like “Let’s Get Wasted!” that are set up like interactive drinking games, and promote drinking.
Users simply tell the app how many beers, glasses of wine or shots they’ve consumed, and the app does the rest. Since these different beverages contain varying amounts of alcohol, the app converts every drink into a certain number of alcohol “units,” based on guidelines. Most alcohol-consumption guidelines recommend different limits for men and women. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) recommends that women have no more than two to three units of alcohol a day, which is roughly equivalent to about 6 ounces (175 milliliters) of wine. For men, the daily recommended maximum is slightly higher, at three to four units, which is equivalent to 19 ounces, or about a pint of strong beer or cider.
In addition to helping users track their alcohol intake, the new app also features links to resources that might help heavy drinkers to limit their consumption, such as the phone number for an alcohol helpline……
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