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TOAST your health by not drinking alcohol for two days a week, says a .

“The evidence we received suggests that people should be advised to take at least two drink-free days a week,” said Andrew Miller, chairman of the cross-party House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The booze break gives the liver a chance to regenerate, advice by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The UK government’s imply that people can safely drink every day if they remain within recommended limits.

, a liver specialist at the University of Southampton, UK, supports the idea of giving the liver a weekly break, but says an annual “liver holiday” of four to six weeks is more likely to heal liver damage. He says the benefit of a weekly break is more psychological because it proves to people that they can regularly manage without alcohol, and avoids escalation of intake.