Biden’s alcohol czar says US could follow Canada in limiting beer consumption to two a week: ‘What a joke’
President Bidens Alcohol czar says Americans could be told by officials not to drink more than two beers a week.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) director George Koob said the daily mail on Thursday that the US could follow in Canada’s footsteps on alcohol guidelines.
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Currently, American guidelines recommend men to limit themselves to this two drinks a day while women should have only one drink. The American recommendations are due for review in 2025.
Canadian guidelines recommend only having two drinks per week.
Koob, who said he drinks a few glasses of “buttery California chardonnay” a week, said he’s been following Canada’s “big experiment” with interest.
“If there are health benefits, I think people will start to reevaluate our current situation,” Koob said.
Koob said there were “no benefits” to physical health from drinking alcohol and he was “fairly confident” that American alcohol consumption recommendations “won’t go up.”
“So if [alcohol consumption guidelines] If we go any direction, it’s going to Canada,” Koob said.
“Most of the benefits that people attribute to alcohol, we think, have more to do with what someone eats than what they drink,” Koob added.
“So it really has something to do with the Mediterranean diet and the socio-economic status that allows you to afford that type of diet and make your own fresh food etc. With that in mind, most of the benefits kind of disappear on the health side.” “
Koob said alcohol also had social benefits, calling it a “social lubricant.”
Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls told Fox News Digital that “rich men north of Richmond are again recommending what hard-working Americans do and don’t do.”
“Biden’s Bierzar has nothing to do with giving advice on drinking,” Nehls said. “These are the Democrats. You want to control every aspect of your life.”
“Two beers a week? What a joke,” he continued. “Let’s not forget that JFK captured 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before banning all Cuban products from the United States.”
Amanda Berger, vice president for science and health for the Distilled Spirits Council, criticized Koob’s comments in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Dr. In his comments, Koob called for a drastic change in federal recommendations on alcohol the review of alcohol research “The scientific rigor and objectivity of the entire dietary guidelines process is already being undermined,” Berger said.
“For more than 30 years, the state alcohol consumption guideline has been no more than one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men for those who choose to drink,” she continued. “It is extremely alarming and inappropriate that a federal official should predetermine the outcome of the dietary guidelines and propose to change decades of precedent without resorting to the scientific scrutiny that supports such a sweeping move.”
At the moment, NIAAA Are defined heavy alcohol consumption in men: more than four drinks per day or 14 drinks per week. Heavy drinking in women is defined as having more than three drinks in a day, or seven drinks a week.
The potential new alcohol-drinking guidelines follow pushes by the Biden administration, which critics say is putting tough regulations on Americans’ lives, including proposals to limit the use of gas stoves.
The Biden administration has quietly revised its plans Data analysis of gas stove regulations She put forward proposals earlier this year, showing they would give consumers fewer savings than previously forecast.
The Department of Energy (DOE) This week, the company submitted a data availability notification as part of its ongoing gas stove rule, showing Americans will save 30% less than what was announced under the rules when they were first proposed in February. The agency’s new analysis found that the Gas Stove Ordinance should save consumers just 9 cents a month.
“The newly released DOE analysis revises the potential energy savings downwards from the original proposal to regulate cooking products and shows that the savings are even lower than originally projected by the DOE and are close to negligible,” according to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), a leading industry group, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“The changes in energy savings projected by the DOE are primarily a result of the DOE recognizing that currently available cooking products are more efficient than assumed in its previous analysis,” the statement continued.
AHAM added that while the DOE has revised the projected savings from its rulemaking, the agency is doing so to stick to its proposed standards which may be completed in the coming months. The group also called on the Department of Energy to “reconsider the very strict limits it is proposing” so manufacturers may be able to continue offering quality products to consumers.
On February 1, the Department of Energy proposed the regulations, saying they would take effect in 2027 and save Americans up to $1.7 billion while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the agency was immediately criticized by industry groups such as the AHAM, free market organizations, and Republicans and Democrats.
In June, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, introduced by Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Arizona, that would prevent the Department of Energy from imposing stricter environmental standards for stoves. Accompanying legislation, co-led by Senator Joe Manchin, DW.Va., goes through the Senate.
Fox News Digital’s Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.