What’s on the Alcohol Units poster
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- Units = volume in ml × ABV% ÷ 1000.
- units = (ml × ABV) ÷ 1000
- Pint of 4% beer (568 ml) = 2.3 units
- Large glass of 13% wine (250 ml) = 3.3 units
- Single 25 ml of 40% spirit = 1 unit
- Common mistake: Counting drinks rather than units → Counting units
UK guidance: no more than 14 units a week, spread over three or more days, with drink-free days. Public health guidance, not individual advice.
Questions about the Alcohol Units poster
- What’s on the Alcohol Units poster?
- The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Units = volume in ml × ABV% ÷ 1000.; units = (ml × ABV) ÷ 1000; Pint of 4% beer (568 ml) = 2.3 units; Large glass of 13% wine (250 ml) = 3.3 units; Single 25 ml of 40% spirit = 1 unit; Common mistake: Counting drinks rather than units → Counting units. UK guidance: no more than 14 units a week, spread over three or more days, with drink-free days. Public health guidance, not individual advice.
- Who is the Alcohol Units poster for?
- Alcohol Units belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Alcohol Units poster?
- Strength and size both matter. A large glass of strong wine is three units, not one. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Alcohol Units belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Alcohol Units?
- Added Sugar, Caffeine and Energy Balance sit alongside Alcohol Units in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarCaffeineEnergy Balance
- Is the Alcohol Units poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Alcohol Units downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Alcohol Units poster print at?
- Alcohol Units is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Alcohol Units loses nothing.Printing guide
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