Biden's 'alcohol czar' moves to recommend Americans consume only 2 drinks per week

President Joe Biden’s "alcohol czar" said in a recent interview that the USDA could soon be recommending that Americans limit themselves to just two drinks a week.

Dr. George Koob, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) told the Daily Mail that the USDA could revise its alcohol recommendations to match Canada’s guidelines which recommends residents limit their alcohol consumption to two drinks per week.



Currently, the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that men limit themselves to two drinks per day and that women limit themselves to one drink per day, but the guidelines are currently up for review and are expected to be published in 2025. 

Koob told the outlet, “If there’s health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we’re at [in the US]. So, if [alcohol consumption guidelines] go in any direction, it would be toward Canada.”

Koob added, “Most of the benefits people attribute to alcohol, we feel they really have more to do with what someone’s eating rather than what they’re drinking. So it really has to do with the Mediterranean diet, socio-economic status, that makes you able to afford that kind of diet and make your own fresh food and so forth.”

According to The New York Post, experts claim that a Mediterranean diet which is high in fats and proteins, but low in carbohydrates, protects against inflammation and heart disease.

The comments come as recent reports have circulated that Americans' alcohol consumption has spiked dramatically.