HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 67: 2015 Fifa Women'S World Cup, Scientific Working Group
27 Nov 2018
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Do Canadians drink more than other countries?
• Canadian adults (aged 15+) drank 10L of pure alcohol per capita in 2016—3.6 more than the
world average
• Canada ranked 40th out of almost 200 countries
• On average – 1.6 SD per day or 11 SD per week.
• 17.05ml of pure alcohol in a SD in Canada.
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What beverages do Canadians’ drink?
Figure 3: Type of drinks consumed by Canadians in 2010
• Wine 22%
• Spirits 27%
• Beer 51%
• Chief Public Health Officer’s Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2015:
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/canada/health-canada/migration/healthy-
canadians/publications/department-ministere/state-public-health-alcohol-2015-etat-sante-
publique-alcool/alt/state-phac-alcohol-2015-etat-aspc-alcool-eng.pdf
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Canadians tend to drink alcohol at HOME
Graph – Where we drink
• 58% at home
• 16% someone else’s home
• 10% bar/club/lounge
• 6% restaurant
• 3% hotel/motel/banquet hall
• Alcohol Consumption Tracker, 2015 - more than 1,000 Canadians keep a monthly online diary of
their drinking behaviours
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How many calories are in your favourite alcoholic beverage? (7kcal/g)
• 153 calories in 341ml 5% beer
• 125 calories in 5oz 12% red wine
• 97 calories in 1.5oz 40% spirits
• Canadian adults who use alcohol consumed an average of 250 calories, 11.2% of their daily
estimated energy requirements (EER) from alcohol, with men (13.3%) consuming a higher
proportion of their EER from alcohol than women (8.2%).
• Alcoholic beverages represent ~11% of total calories consumed among adults in Canada
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