During Wednesday’s briefing unveiling HHS’s new dietary guidelines, Dr. Mahmet Oz rambled incoherently on why HHS decided to forego thirty-five years of alcohol guidelines and replaced it with a caution to ‘moderate” alcohol intake.
Reuters has just eported that the Trump administration killed “a draft proposal to halve alcohol limits.”
The change eliminates a recommendation in place for 35 years that men limit alcohol consumption to two drinks per day and women to one drink per day. It also followed a years-long lobbying campaign by the alcohol industry, worth some $1.2 trillion in global sales according to drinks market research firm IWSR, to disrupt the health officials’ work.
The idiot Dr. Oz called alcohol a social lubricant, and then he claimed no real research has been done on the issue, which is a bald-faced lie.
DR OZ: So alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together.
In the best case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize.
And there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way. If you look at the blue zones, for example, around the world, people live the longest.
