For a nice definition of blood alcohol content, we found that Wikipedia was pretty good:
“Blood alcohol content or blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the concentration of alcohol in a person’s blood. BAC is most commonly used as a metric of intoxication for legal or medical purposes. It is usually measured in terms of mass per volume, but can also be measured in terms of mass per mass. Blood alcohol concentration is given in many different units and notations, but they are all relatively synonymous with each other numerically.
The number of drinks consumed is a poor measure of BAC, largely because of variations in weight, sex, and body fat. However, it is generally accepted that the consumption from sober of one standard drink of alcohol (e.g. 14 grams ethanol content by U.S. standard) will increase the average person’s BAC roughly 0.02% to 0.05% and would return to 0% about 1.5 to 3 hours later (at a dissipation rate of around 0.015% per hour.”
Each one of us is unique and we all react differently to alcohol. How much one is effected by alcohol really depends on:
- one’s body -size, weight
- how much food one has had
- how many drinks one has had
- how much alcohol is present in each drink
- in general, how often one drinks
We have put up a simple blood alchol calculator here, to help you determine how much alcohol one might consume in a given time. Remember this is just an estimation. Always drink responsibly.
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