Aussie men told to drink more like a girl

Hard-drinking Australians were warned today to cut down their alcohol intake, and told that men and women's drink limits were the same.

Health experts published research proposing the limits of two drinks a day and no more than four on any occasion to keep their risk of dying from alcohol-related causes to one in 100.

The National Health and Medical Research Council, which took three years to compile the advice, stressed the guidelines were advisory, not "telling you what you can and can't do".

Study leader, Professor John Currie, said the guidelines would stop people "saving up" a week's drinks to have in one night.