DRINKING from smaller glasses helps to chop wine consumption, a examine says.

Plonk-loving Brits drank two-thirds of a bottle much less per family every month after they used 290ml glasses at residence as a substitute of 350ml ones.

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Shopping for smaller bottles didn’t have the identical impact.

Cambridge College examine creator Dr Eleni Mantzari stated: “It would appear to be frequent sense nevertheless it might have gone both approach.

“Folks ingesting from smaller glasses could have thought they may have one other one or two as a result of they’re solely small.”

However every family concerned within the analysis noticed their wine consumption drop 500ml per 30 days.

Dr Mantzari stated: “If you give folks bigger glasses, they have a tendency to pour extra out and they also drink extra.”

The trial, revealed within the journal Habit, examined how glass and bottle measurement modified ingesting habits in 217 households that often guzzle not less than 4 750ml bottles a month.

Heavy ingesting is a significant public well being drawback within the UK, with a fifth of adults stated to be quaffing sufficient to lift their danger of growing liver illness and most cancers.