A record low number of Americans are drinking, according to a new Gallup poll released this week. Just 54% of Americans said they consume alcohol at all.
Gallup has been tracking Americans’ drinking behavior since 1939, and their views of the health implications of drinking since 2001. For the first time, a majority of Americans – 53% – said that moderate drinking, defined as one or two drinks per day, is bad for your health.
I enjoy drinking, I’m under no delusion that it has any physical health benefits, it’s quite literally poison.
There’s maybe an argument for it having mental health benefits if used in moderation, but probably not any more than having any hobby or socialization would do for you, we all need to unwind somehow.
Also, this definition of “moderate” drinking really rubs me the wrong way, one to two drinks a day really sounds to me like someone with a drinking problem.
Not that two drinks is really a lot of alcohol, on the occasions I drink, I’ll usually have more than that, sometimes a lot more.
But on an average week, I’m having maybe about two drinks, probably less.
And even if I make some pretty wild overestimates about how often I go to parties or whatever and how much I drink there, I still average out to less than 2 drinks a day. More realistically I probably average out to more like ½ a drink per day.
And like I said, I’m someone who likes alcohol. I have a fully-stocked bar at home that would put some nicer establishments to shame. For certain date nights it’s pretty much a given that my wife and I are going to kill a bottle of wine between us. I’m certainly no teetotaler.
I think the two drinks a day is supposed to be an average. I don’t drink every day anymore, but when I did it was almost always more than two, usually at least double that by typical serving standards. On days I do drink now, it’s still about the same amount, but it’s once or twice a week, so my average is probably around a drink a day or so.
The fuck? Nobody is having 7 drinks on friday and the same on Saturday and claiming they have two drinks a day
I mean, I don’t know what to tell you. I drink 5 or 6 on Friday and Saturday and don’t drink the rest of the week.
Yes, you are doing more damage than someone who only drinks two drinks a day
one to two drinks a day really sounds to me like someone with a drinking problem.
This is typical of someone who drinks beer or wine with their evening meal. Many people who do that always do that unless they have a specific reason not to. This is not behavior most medical professionals see as problematic, though it likely has a small health impact/risk.
on the occasions I drink, I’ll usually have more than [two drinks], sometimes a lot more.
The US CDC describes that behavior as binge drinking.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks, and when women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.
By that definition, most of my drinking probably wouldn’t count as a binge. I might, over the course of a day hanging around camp or whatever, have a dozen or so drinks, but that’s spread out over almost as many hours.
I have seen other definitions that call any day you have more than 2 a binge, and by that definition, sure, I have an occasional binge, but I don’t know if I’m a fan of that definition, it feels like there’s too many variables with body weight and metabolism and such, and of course how quickly you’re drinking, there’s a big difference between a 300lb man killing a 6 pack over the course of a day and a 100lb woman pounding them one after another, so I like how the NIAAA definition ties it to BAC.
Alhamdulillah America is becoming halal mashallah.
America is not becoming halal. If anything, we’re trending more secular. Participation in Christianity is declining and “Other Religions” are remaining steady at around 6%, as of 2021. We’ll see if trends continue.
Bro no, alhamdullilah America is on the path to Jannah mashallah.
I think it was just a joke 😂
We’ll see what happens with the crazies at the switch. They are trying to crowbar their little book club into the culture and government. I wouldn’t be surprised to see their chosen lifestyle getting unwarranted privileges (again), and even some instances where they are able to compel people to be xtians.
Because the elites among the crazies certainly know that belief and participation in their little book club has been trending down for years now (losing about 1% of xtians a year or so for decades). Ironically, they may be doing a disservice to their numbers with their assault on Hispanics, since I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those numbers were buttressed by Catholics among Hispanics.
It hurts to drink.
Then don’t do it. Seems pretty cut and dry.
Life is bad for your health.
Time is bad for you
If living wasn’t bad for your health you wouldn’t die.
Couple years ago a NYTimes article showed that alcohol of any type and in any amount is bad for your health. This is quite the departure from people drinking red wine because it was thought to benefit one’s health.
That’s because people don’t understand statistics, or willfully misunderstand them.
French people are less likely to die from heart failure (than, say, Americans).
French people are more likely to drink red wine (than, say, Americans).
Therefore drinking red wine reduces the risk of heart failure.
Therefore drinking red wine is healthy.
It’s not even that specifically, at least in my family they latched onto the “resveratrol has health benefits” study, and expanded that to “red wine is healthy”
Like oh yeah cookies are healthy now because eggs have choline. So dumb.
Wow. 140k deaths is… A lot. For a population of ~330mil that’s six times the already ridiculous US homicide rate. Stop drinking, y’all.
What, and rawdog reality? That seems far more dangerous for me right now.
They took the part of the wine that was healthy for you and turned it into a pill. Guess how many people wanted the pill Vs the wine lol
Kombucha on the other hand is awesome. Plus some Bulgarian yogurt with L.Reuteri. all good things!
I’ll drink occasionally and eat an edible occasionally. Pretty much only socially. I don’t get the people who obsessively have to explain why what they’re using recreationally is actually healthy. Been around people like that since I was a pre-teen. About middle aged now and they’re all a bunch of burnouts including the sad they missed out in their teens/early 20s that decided to dive in late 20s because they watched all the YouTube videos on the benefits. All burned out. Not just alcohol and weed. All my acid, shrooms, ketamine, 2c-i, peyote, dmt, whatever friends - damn near all of them burned out and talk like teenagers in their 30s and 40s. Most generally don’t even they’re enlightened anymore and just want to chill with drugs
Moderation folks. Don’t make drugs your religion or personality and you won’t have early emotional burn out in life
Believe me, I was headed toward emotional burnout long before I discovered drugs.
Would you look at that, education reducing drug use. Who would have thought? Maybe this is how we reduce the other types of drug use? Nah send them to jail.
Are other drugs down too?
Nah, just elect trump and defund the education system so the alcohol industry can reign supreme.
The alcohol industry is in serious trouble right now because of Trump’s trade war.
The resources required are all agricultural, which the US actually does produce.
The equipment required is pretty simple (so most could be sourced locally).
What am I overlooking?
I think they were referring to the significant decrease in alcohol sales to Canada now that the tariffs are in place
It literally kills your liver
its been well know even moderate or even low amounts of alcohol daily consumption increases risk of cancers.
It’s literally toxic
Got too easy during Covid so I took a break. Turns out it agreed with me so haven’t had a drop since. Don’t miss it at all despite being a craft beer fan. Easy to replace and I don’t get stupid when I’ve had too much tea.
I just stopped drinking recently as well. It is a much better life.
Nearly two years for me, life is better 💪
Found the cause of the fertility crisis
There is no fertility crisis though.
People are plenty fertile lol
they just don’t want kids. Also since they don’t want them and are satisfied with that, not a crisis
Both things can be true. I think it’s something like 25-30% of younger men with sperm cells so weak they’d at least struggle greatly to procreate. Probably more due to microplastics and fastfood though, but drinking doesn’t help. Same reason there are so many allergies etc in the West
They want them, but can’t afford a nice place to raise them. It’s no wonder in places like SF the fertility rate is much lower than the national average
If only conservative people have kids the youngest voters will lean conservative
I’m of the opinion that there’s no reversing a fertility crisis until we make teenage pregnancy great again. A 25 year old has seen too much, knows too much
Why do you think Republicans regularly try to cut sex ed out of schools?
Decrease in demand = lower prices
LFGG!
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