{"id":2012902,"date":"2023-08-26T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alcohol-industry-displeased-with-biden-czar-considering-call-to-have-just-two-drinks-a-week\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:40:14","slug":"alcohol-industry-displeased-with-biden-czar-considering-call-to-have-just-two-drinks-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alcohol-industry-displeased-with-biden-czar-considering-call-to-have-just-two-drinks-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden czar&#8217;s suggestion of limiting alcohol intake to two drinks weekly irks alcohol industry."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falcohol-industry-displeased-with-biden-czar-considering-call-to-have-just-two-drinks-a-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Alcohol Industry Representatives Displeased with Proposed \u2064Changes to Alcohol Guidelines<\/h2>\n<p>Representatives of the alcohol industry\u200c were \u2063taken\u200d aback by a leading Biden administration\u200b official&#8217;s suggestion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-alcohol-really-offer-any-health-benefits\/\" title=\"Is Alcohol Beneficial for Health?\">reduce alcohol consumption<\/a>. George Koob, Director\u2064 of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), revealed in a recent \u200cinterview that he was contemplating revising the United States&#8217; health recommendations regarding alcohol. Koob expressed interest in Canada&#8217;s decision to limit alcohol intake \u2063to just two drinks per week, a move\u200c that did not sit well with the alcohol industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is extremely alarming and inappropriate for a federal official\u2063 to\u200c predetermine the \u200doutcome of the\u200c Dietary Guidelines and suggest changing decades of \u200cprecedent without the benefit of\u200d the scientific review to \u2062support such\u2063 a sweeping\u2064 move,&#8221; tweeted Amanda Berger, Vice President \u200bof the Distilled Spirits\u200b Council, which represents numerous alcohol companies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Koob, who admitted to enjoying a few glasses of Chardonnay each week, expressed \u2062his desire to align the U.S. \u2062alcohol guidelines\u200c with those of Canada. He stated, &#8220;If there \u2062are health benefits, I believe people will start to reassess our current situation in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the recommended\u2062 alcohol intake for women is up to one bottle of beer, a small glass of wine, or a shot of spirits per day, while men can have up to two. However, these guidelines may \u200bchange by\u2064 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Koob also expressed skepticism regarding \u200cthe\u200d alleged \u200dphysical benefits of alcohol.\u2063 He stated, &#8220;Most of \u2062the benefits people attribute to\u2063 alcohol are actually more related\u2064 to their diet rather than \u200ctheir drinking \u200bhabits. It&#8217;s really\u200c about the Mediterranean diet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ig-equity-official-used-gov-job-to-boost-her-entirely-duplicative-for-profit-firm\/\" title=\"IG: \u2018Equity\u2019 Official Used Gov Job To Boost Her \u2018Entirely Duplicative\u2019 For-Profit Firm\">socio-economic status<\/a>, which enable individuals to afford such a diet\u2062 and prepare fresh food. With this in mind, most \u2064of the health benefits\u200c associated with alcohol tend to diminish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Koob acknowledged the social benefits \u200bof alcohol, referring to it \u2064as a &#8220;social lubricant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, it is important \u2063to note that alcohol has \u2063several detrimental effects on one&#8217;s \u2063health. According to a 2021 report from the American Cancer Society, alcohol is responsible for\u2062 as many as one in 20 cases in the U.S. Additionally, another study found \u200dthat\u2064 alcohol increases the risk of heart disease by 1.4 times.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d review process for \u200bthe Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025\u2064 to 2030 is currently\u200c underway, although the new draft will not be published\u2062 until the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the\u200b Canadian Centre on \u2064Substance Use and Addiction recommended \u2062that Canadians limit their alcohol consumption to only two \u2063beverages per \u2062week. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alcohol-industry-displeased-with-biden-czar-considering-call-to-have-just-two-drinks-a-week\/\" title=\"Biden czar's suggestion of limiting alcohol intake to two drinks weekly irks alcohol industry.\">decision\u2064 sparked significant debate<\/a> within the country.<\/p>\n<h3>Click here\u2064 to read more from The \u2062Washington Examiner<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alcohol industry expressed dissatisfaction as a top Biden official suggested reducing alcohol intake. George Koob, Director of NIAAA, mentioned a potential revision of US health guidelines on alcohol consumption during a recent interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}