UNDERNEWS: Trump Regime Abandons Longstanding Advice on Alcohol

January 8, 2026

Trump Regime Abandons Longstanding Advice on Alcohol

NY Times - Ever since the federal government began issuing the Dietary Guidelines in 1980, it has told Americans to limit themselves to one or two standard alcoholic drinks a day. Over time, the official advice morphed to no more than two drinks a day for men, and no more than one for women.

No longer. The updated guidelines issued on Wednesday say instead that people should consume less alcohol “for better overall health” and “limit alcohol beverages,” but they do not recommend clear limits.

The guidelines also no longer warn that alcohol may heighten the risk of breast cancer and other malignancies.

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Strelnikov said...: Trump has made us ex-Warsaw Pact in the early 1990s -- "Drink yourself stupid whenever you want, we Your Government are too out of it to care." All we need is a Yugoslav-style civil war in California between the Coast Towns and the Deep Inland Poor Counties, then everything will be like it was in the 1990s.; January 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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