A quiet push to declare “no safe level” of drinking has officially fizzled.
Just over a year ago, I wrote about the bureaucratic machinations in the U.S. attempting to import an anti-alcohol agenda into the government's 2025 Dietary Guidelines. Now, it appears that alcohol has officially escaped the government's wrath—at least for another half-decade.
The U.S. dietary guidelines are revised every five years, with the latest revision expected this year. The lead-up to the revision unfolds over several years, and recommendations for safe drinking levels are traditionally included alongside food in the final guidance. For decades, the guidelines have held that men can safely consume up to two alcoholic drinks a day and women one. But myriad sources from inside the federal government were reporting that the new guidelines were planning to include a declaration that "no amount of alcohol is acceptable for a healthy lifestyle." (This was a standard imported from the World Health Organization, which declared in 2023 that "no amount of alcohol is safe").
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C. Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow for the Manhattan Institute.
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