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Kyle

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President Biden's alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week.

"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."

"Two beers a week? What a joke," he continued. "Let’s not forget that JFK snagged 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before banning all Cuban products from the United States."

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Biden alcohol czar says US may follow Canada, limit beers to two a week: 'what a joke'

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Director George Koob said the U.S. may follow Canada in recommending Americans limit alcohol consumption to two drinks per week from two per day.
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Kyle said:
President Biden's alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week.

"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."

"Two beers a week? What a joke," he continued. "Let’s not forget that JFK snagged 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before banning all Cuban products from the United States."

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Biden alcohol czar says US may follow Canada, limit beers to two a week: 'what a joke'

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Director George Koob said the U.S. may follow Canada in recommending Americans limit alcohol consumption to two drinks per week from two per day.
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Surprised they haven't proclaimed Bud Lite as the only legal beer in America.
 
Hijinx

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I might drink a six-pack in a year, but I don't try to place any limits on anyone else.
Beer is actually a pretty healthy drink.

Much better for you than Mountain Dew
 
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Anyone with the word czar in their title, officially or unofficially, should immediately raise red flags and be relieved of their "duties". This is how non-elected officials get a say in how we should live and how we should act. "Do as I say, not as I do." And the lemmings hop in line.
 
Hijinx

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Trying to limit alcohol to two beers while the country is drowning in fentanyl and marijuana is a strong indication of how crazy this bunch is.

Don't they see just how really stupid they are?
 
Kyle

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Sneakers said:
No problem. Just make sure that one beer is the size of a brew kettle.
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GURPS

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This announcement had both the neutered approach to things, but buried deep is also some pernicious statist thinking. Initially, there is little to be concerned with. These are, in the end, recommendations and guidelines, not governmental mandates. Just look at the specifics where what Dr. Koob is saying is that this would be a revision of current drinking guidelines. I think most people who savor the spirits would be as surprised to learn we have current drinking guidelines, as much as they were surprised to learn of an Alcohol Czar.

That said, this does carry some words of concern. The very fact that the government wants to involve itself in our private affairs yet again is a bother. But then Dr. Koob says he issues this new edict with an eye on Canada’s health standards regarding drinking, a country that has displayed a mounting tendency to view personal liberty as an annoyance. Using them as a guide should set off some warning lights.

And look at the language used by both Koob and the Daily Mail. “Americans could be told to limit themselves,” goes the introduction. In describing the current standards, they state what men and women “can have” on a daily basis. The other concern is the number of studies floating around that analyze the effects of drinking, as we have seen with the pandemic the lengths the governments will go in the name of protecting the health of the public.

A 2020 report cited health risks associated with drinking and suggested limiting intake to one drink a day. The next year the American Cancer Society attributed 5 percent of cancer cases to alcohol. Another study tied drinking to heart disease. This June, a larger medical study came out of Oxford and cited SIXTY diseases – 60 – to alcohol consumption. The science journal Nature elevated that disease risk to 200.




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America's Alcohol Czar Wants Stricter Federal Guidelines for Drinking​



Currently, the federal dietary guidelines advise no more than two drinks per day for adult men and one drink per day for adult women. Revising that down to two drinks per week would be a dramatic shift, to say the least.

Thankfully, most Americans don't give a crap what the federal guidelines for drinking say. Following federal dietary guidelines to the letter of the law would mean a joyless existence devoid of many fine drinks (particularly if you're a woman), anything less than well-done steak, or eggs benedict. Oh, and don't forget to microwave your prosciutto!

It's also true, of course, that the government is in no way forcing Americans to follow these rules. This doesn't even rise to the level of a backhanded ban like the ones that are aimed at driving gas stoves into extinction. Still, these guidelines come with an air of authority to them—or, at least, the sense that they were made by people who know what they're talking about.

But, often, they don't. Remember the food pyramid? My entire generation was raised on the notion that we were supposed to eat six to 11 servings of starch per day, thanks to poorly researched government-based dietary guidelines

If the U.S. follows Canada in issuing dramatically lower guidelines for alcohol consumption, the USDA will likely justify the decision by pointing to a headline-generating 2018 article published in the British medical journal The Lancet that argued the safe level of alcohol consumption was basically zero. Indeed, in his remarks to the Daily Mail, Koob echoed that study by claiming there are "no benefits" to drinking alcohol in terms of physical health. The World Health Organization has been pushing a similar message in recent years.

Of course, that ignores many of the possible benefits that human beings derive from drinking—like social lubrication, relaxation, and fun.

"[Alcohol] helps us to be more creative. It helps us to be more communal. It helps us to cooperate on a large scale," Edward Slingerland, author of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization told ReasonTV last year. "It helps to make it easier for us to kind of rub shoulders with each other in these large-scale societies that we live in. So it solved a bunch of adaptive problems that we uniquely face as a species because of this weird lifestyle we have."
 
Sneakers

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You can bet that it will only apply to the common folk. Can you imagine the geniuses that are making these rules giving up their daily evening stress reliever?

And you can be sure new names are already being used for Koob....
 
BOP

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Sneakers said:
You can bet that it will only apply to the common folk. Can you imagine the geniuses that are making these rules giving up their daily evening stress reliever?

And you can be sure new names are already being used for Koob....
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If they outlaw alcohol, only outlaws will drink alcohol.
 
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