The Trump and Biden campaigns recently sparred over whether the government should tell people to lay off red meat. But a new proposal could see the Trump administration hit men with equally unpopular and unscientific advice later this year. A proposal being considered by the administration would change the United States’s definition of “moderate drinking,” telling men to have no more than one alcoholic drink on any given day.
If the proposal succeeds, the U.S. will be the latest country to allow anti-alcohol activists to overturn decades of evidence showing that people who drink moderately live longer than those who drink no alcohol at all. Moderate drinking, currently defined as up to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women, has a particularly strong protective effect against heart disease, which remains America’s biggest killer.
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