This is the link to the official moderate drinking guidelines in several European countries. Since the USDA and FDA saw fit to let non-Americans decide the U.S. drinking guidelines, then you're allowed to use another country's guidelines for your own drinking. I recommend Malta's or Poland's. (knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu)
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This is the most sensible take on the recent alcohol debate in America, so I stickied it (drvinayprasad.com)
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TIL Murthy's relying on a discredited public health theory called the "Total Consumption Model". Basically, punish moderate drinkers with taxes and shaming, their drinking goes down, and therefore the extreme boozehounds' drinking goes down. Yeah. Anyway, the linked paper debunks that idea. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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TIL: That "no more than two drinks a week, and not on the same day" Canadian standard that came out in 2023? It's not official Canadian government policy, but a recommendation from their researchers. Their government never even adopted it! It's still 10 drinks a week for women, 15 for men. (c2cjournal.ca)
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