The Biden Administration is going double or nothing.
According to a report from Fox News, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) George Koob is looking at Canada as inspiration for America’s updated drinking recommendations.
Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week. Currently, the guidelines recommend a limit of two drinks a day.
From Fox News:
Koob said there are “no benefits” to physical health from drinking alcohol and that he was “pretty sure” American alcohol consumption recommendations are “not going to go up.”
“So, if [alcohol consumption guidelines] go in any direction, it would be toward Canada,” Koob said.
“Most of the benefits people attribute to alcohol, we feel they really have more to do with what someone’s eating rather than what they’re drinking,” Koob added.
“So it really has to do with the Mediterranean diet, socio-economic status, that makes you able to afford that kind of diet and make your own fresh food and so forth. With this in mind, most of the benefits kind of disappear on the health side.”
Koob did say alcohol had its social benefits, as well, calling it a “social lubricant.”
Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls told Fox News Digital the “rich men north of Richmond are once again recommending what hard-working Americans should and shouldn’t do.”
“Biden’s beer czar has no business advising ‘guidance’ on alcohol consumption,” Nehls said. “This is who the Democrats are. They want to control every aspect of your life.”
More over at Fox News:
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