Their conclusion differs from the current U.S. dietary guidelines.
Americans should limit their alcohol consumption to no more than one drink per day, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
The recommendation — from an international team of scientists — differs from the U.S. dietary guidelines, both past and present. Previous guidelines recommended a daily limit of two alcoholic drinks for men and one for women. The latest version, released by the Trump administration in January, is less precise. It recommends only that Americans “consume less alcohol for better overall health.”
The current less-is-best message is accurate but too vague, said study co-author Priscilla Martinez-Matyszczyk, deputy scientific director of the Alcohol Research Group at the Public Health Institute, an independent nonprofit organization in California. People need quantified guidance so they can make informed decisions about their drinking, she said.
As an American, having no drinks will shorten my lifespan dealing with the utter fucking bullshit we have to live through right now.
That’s high. I would think a few drinks per month max if any lol. Most likely none. Who paid for thIs?
I like a drink, but every day seems excessive to me. I do 2-3 a week, or sometimes less. Like honestly I think if you drink daily you have a problem.
I am drinking more than ever, and it seems like a lot of other people are too.
What, like average?
I think I’ve had all the drinks for my lifetime up front
Killjoys.
World health organization is at zero drinks per day max at the moment so
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Jesus, you just gonna leave us hanging?
Well, do they?
In Canada, 7 drinks a week is considered heavy drinker, which describes 25% of the population.
If you told me that back when I was having 12 a week I would have scoffed. Funny thing though is these days I’ll go months without a single drink, and if I do have a cocktail at a restaurant or something it very noticeably affects my sport performance for several days.
Removing alcohol from my life entirely somehow feels a little “too extreme” but the more I think about it the less I can justify keeping it around
My partner caught a drinking problem and it took him some time to get sober for good. I quit alcohol before he did, and continue to abstain for him. I did miss it sometimes, but Im about five years “sober” and honestly, I didnt realize how much alcohol was affecting me too.
I usually had 3-4 drinks a week in my hey day, but when I quit, most of my anxiety did too. My depression symptoms lessened, and I found multiple other ways to have fun, and honestly, got more comfortable with being goofy and dancing sober. It oddly helped my self esteem too.
About once a year, summer time vibes will trigger a wish to drink, I just cope through it and move on from it, on a whole I feel so much better day to day, this really surprised me.
No problemo.
Setting the goal of having the longest lifespan does not guarantee having the life most worth living.
Absolutely true, but feeling good for a higher proportion of your years is much more likely if you act like you want a longer life. Most longevity stuff is geared more towards “healthspan” than lifespan.
Having said that - moderation is what I practice. I don’t overeat or drink too much but do not eat a tightly controlled diet either, eat healthy food mostly but not exclusively. Work out but not excessively.
Alcohol is a known carcinogen. It’s estimated that 5% of US cancer diagnoses are alcohol-related. Having cancer does not make for a life worth living.
As someone who was stone-cold sober for the first 30-some years of their life, rawdogging life doesn’t always make for a life worth living, either.
I don’t drink regularly now. I’m not against it, but I drink less than one alcoholic drink per year on average. There was a time where I used to drink about two drinks per week, but never more than three within a week.
On the other hand, I do eat THC edibles regularly(again, about 2-3 times per week), and I can state VERY strongly that I am doing a lot better having that. It gives me the ability to not focus on bad things constantly.
I came to a conclusion a while back that I would rather have a shorter life full of enjoyable things rather than the longest life I could possibly have. I’m not saying that I would smoke or do hard drugs or anything like that, but I absolutely go out and do things like skydiving. If I die from one of those things, so be it, but I will have lived my life by filling it with as many reasons to live as possible.
That means there’s a 95% chance your cancer comes from something else. Yes cancer sucks, but it almost feels inevitable, so why deny myself a coping mechanism for gestures wildly
oh come now. living longer is a boon to capitalists because more labor can be extracted. won’t someone please think of the bourgeoisie?
Big Science trying to keep the world too sober. Can’t they see what’s going on outside?
Agreed. What is this even trying to tell us?
They study found men who had more than 6.5 drinks per week and women who had more than seven per week had greater than a 1-in-1,000 lifetime risk of dying from alcohol-related diseases or injuries.
Obviously, I’ll die no matter what. This just says I’ve got 999 problems and alcohol ain’t one of them.
Not to mention it doesn’t say anything about when. Is that an alcohol related death in their 30s, 50s, or 80s? What is the impact of removing DUI-related deaths for drinkers who don’t drive? Hell, does it count people who drink more than a drink per day but get killed by someone else driving drunk?
I gotta say that this falls below the risk threshold that I care about. Actually, I wonder if that is the intent, like a bit of reverse psychology by saying “don’t do this dangeous thing, or you risk increasing split ends in your hair by 12%!” when it is actually trying to discredit people talking about the legitimate risks by treating trivial ones as serious. Though probably not because most people would probably just take the main message rather than look closely enough to see the misdirection.
Congrats on your sobriety!
Hmmm. I guess either you misread, or more than likely I misspoke. I should have said that I have 999 out of 1000 problems that are not alcohol, with the remaining problem very much being alcohol.
Yeah, I figured that’s what you meant, but it’s not what you said. You’ve got 1000 problems and alcohol is exactly one. Congrats on the 1,000 micromorts!
PSA: non-alcoholic beers have gotten way better since your gramps drank O’Doul’s for two years before he fell back off the wagon for good and started deliberately hitting women with his grocery cart at price chopper.
PSA: alcohol free wine on the other side is still utterly undrinkable.
LPT: Feels good to switch to alcohol only 1-2 per week.
I do not understand why more restaurants and shops are not pushing premium sparkling grape juice, apple cider, and ginger ale for when you want something to pour into stemware with dinner. So many restaurant’s only alternative to a bottle of wine is cheap HFCS-based soda.
Probably because most people who choose not to drink wine simply choose to drink water. The restaurant buys a case of the cheapest NA alternative they can find for the one person who comes in twice a month and wants some.
I mean, as a non drinker, I fucking love Martinelli Apple Cider. At events, my alcoholic grandparents would always have it for kids too young for wine (to them, 10yos) and I just kept drinking it into adulthood.
Granted I also found better conversation with my kid cousins over my other relatives, but that’s an added bonus.
Martinellis cider is my favorite part of holidays, haha! It’s just so much fun!
I quite like grape juice.
Agreed. I still prefer a real one in most cases, but the NA options taste identical in some cases and there are a ton of NA options that taste great. I’d not have given them a try if my friend hadn’t stopped drinking. Glad he did and I may follow his decision in time.
at price chopper
They’re called Market 32 now, thank you very much!
The Heineken 0.0 is practically indistinguishable from the real thing.
That’s cause Heineken was indistinguishable from sparkling water all along.
I prefer it over Athletic NA beers that taste more like herbal water than beer to me lol
I’m sober and sometimes one of those Heineken 0.0 just hits the spot when I’m out with friends or otherwise would have drank.
You know what? Your comment just reminded me that I’ve put off quitting for way too long, now.
The half gallon of beer I drink every night really isn’t fun anymore.
I will not drink with you today!I will not drink with you today, friend :)
“Adults should have no more than one drink a day, a team of scientists says, however children should get shitfaced on the regular.”
Something tells me the Kid Beer sketch has been rewatched recently
I’m fuckin ready twats.
That’s where the Theseus strategy comes in. Start with one drink and just keep topping it off.
Just drink from the bottle, its 1 glass.
“My grandmother lived to be a hundred and never needed glasses. Drank right outta the bottle.” - Henny Youngman
