India, July 20 -- Alcohol is widely known to cause harm to your liver. However, some people drink only on weekends, believing that limiting alcohol consumption to two days a week is a safer option.ALSO READ: Gastroenterologist shares 3 everyday habits that could be silently harming liver: 'If you are drinking alcohol every.'

So, drinking occasionally and abstaining throughout the working week may create the impression that you are not putting too much stress on your liver.

You may feel perfectly fine on Monday morning. However, hear from a doctor on why this belief that weekend drinking is relatively safer may actually be misleading.

Dr Swasthik KS, consultant in gastro and liver transplant surgery at KMC Hospital, Mangalore, told HT L...