Article: DO YOU HAVE A WINE WAIST? The British woman's midriff has grown by more than six inches over the past 50 years. And the culprit, reports Judith Woods, is excess alcohol.

Byline: JUDITH WOODS

As a culture we are marinating ourselves in alcohol. If it's not the WAGs conspicuously ordering [pounds sterling]200 bottles of Cristal champagne at the World Cup, it's grainy newspaper photographs of young women who have collapsed in the street after a night on the town, plump mottled thighs on display to the ranks of staggering passers-by.

We're all at it; where once we would offer a cup of tea, a glass of wine is now the norm. Levels of consumption among middleclass professional women are rising inexorably; a third of women over 30 drink more than they did in their teens and 20s. At the other end of the scale, the number of ...

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