Drinkers are currently being encouraged to have a sponsored alcohol-free January soon after the festive season. Photograph: Terry Waller/ Terry Waller/Demotix/Corbis
As get together-goers prepare to nurse their new year hangovers, health charities are urging people to consider staying off alcohol for the rest of the month.
Alcohol Concern and Cancer Research Uk are operating fundraising campaigns in which participants are sponsored for abstaining from drink all through January.
Alcohol Concern’s Dry January 2014 encourages people to avoid alcohol for 31 days and aims to “get folks talking and pondering about their drinking”.
Folks who consider component could “drop bodyweight, really feel far better, save income and make a big difference”, the charity stated.
A spokeswoman said thousands have previously signed up to the challenge.
She explained the campaign is aimed at social drinkers whose alcohol consumption could have “crept up on them”.
Emily Robinson, director of campaigns at Alcohol Concern, mentioned: “A lot of of us believe the way we drink isn’t a difficulty, but even obtaining just a few beers after work or a number of glasses of wine at residence also frequently can take you in excess of secure limits and shop up difficulties for the potential.
“We’re challenging individuals to consider component in Dry January and consider providing up booze for 31 days, and if it sounds like a large request you’re precisely the person we want to join us and have a go.
“It really is not about in no way drinking once again, it’s just the perfect opportunity for all of us to consider a breather and get pondering about our drinking.”
She additional: “We feel individuals will feel greater, sleep greater, conserve cash and they might also lose excess weight.
Cancer Investigation UK’s campaign, Dryathlon, is encouraging participants to turn out to be “dryathletes” by staying off booze for 31 days although obtaining sponsorship from close friends and family members members.
The 2013 Dryathlon campaign saw 35,000 dryathletes increase much more than £4m for the charity.
Anthony Newman, director of marketing and advertising at Cancer Investigation Uk, explained: “We know offering up alcohol and taking element in Dryathlon will genuinely test some people’s willpower, but we also know it’s something lots of people already do effectively.
“So, regardless of whether you are presently planning to give up alcohol for January or hunting to consider on an further challenge in the new year, why not signal up to Dryathlon and swap your lager for a latte, protected in the expertise that the income you raise will be helping us to beat cancer sooner.”
Wellness charities inspire drinkers to abstain from alcohol in January
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