Abstinence makes the ritual healthier

By Heath Gilmore
Updated July 9 2014 - 1:08am, first published July 8 2014 - 8:27pm
Dry July
Dry July
Off the booze: Bligh Twyford-Moore, left, and Jack Colwell. Photo: Jon Reid
Off the booze: Bligh Twyford-Moore, left, and Jack Colwell. Photo: Jon Reid

It has become the secular Lent. Dry July and other charity-themed months are evolving into observations of abstinence and fasting for personal wellbeing rather than the betterment of society or religious practice.