Reuters reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Government will remove the current recommendation that men should only indulge in two alcoholic drinks a day and women drink one alcoholic drink a day. The new U.S. alcohol guidelines could drop this month at the earliest.
According to Forbes, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines face a review every five years. Anonymous sources informed Reuters that the new guidelines would push for moderation at this moment in time and not give specific numbers for maximum consumption.
Alcohol lobbyists might raise a toast to the new administration should the new, more relaxed guidelines go through. Big alcohol has faced plenty of scrutiny over the past year after a bombshell study from the World Health Organization dropped, stating that no amount of alcohol is safe for the human body. Should the new guidelines go through on the current administration, they would be moving in the opposite direction from the recent findings.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently serving as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the new guidelines are a part of his administration.
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Kennedy Jr.’s platform has seen no shortage of controversy. RFK is the principle figure behind the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, with a platform based on vaccine skepticism, advancements for regenerative agriculture according to its website, eliminating harmful chemicals and support for unpasturized foods like raw milk.
The Times reported that since RFK Jr. took on the Health Secretary position, an excess of 10,000 people lost their jobs in high-ranking government positions within the CDC, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH.)
Interestingly enough, RFK Jr. does not drink alcohol, making the government’s newer, more lax approach to alcohol consumption an interesting choice. Kennedy readily vocalized his struggles with addiction, and PBS reported on the fact that the Health Secretary used heroin as a teenager.
“Every addict feels that in one way or another — that they have to fix what’s wrong with them, and the only thing that works are drugs,” Kennedy shared during a speech at a conference on addiction, according to PBS. “And so the threats that you might die, that you are going to ruin your life, are completely meaningless.”
The outlet reported that Kennedy mentioned God over 20 times in the speech, and claimed addiction prevention involved having a healthy family and spiritual life.
The shift to the guidelines will probably be one of the more radical shifts in decades, as the Drinks Business reports they have been the same since 1990.
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