Saturday, June 21, 2025

Make Alcoholism Great Again

Multiple internal sources have stated that the US Government is expected to eliminate the the dietary guideline that adults not consume more than two alcohol drinks per day when new guidelines are released in the coming weeks. The new guidelines are still subject to change prior to their release.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 12:33 PM | 25 COMMENTS | permalink

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New U.S. Dietary Guidelines might soon be issued loosening the longstanding recommendations for daily alcohol use--but researchers still stress the links between alcohol and several types of cancer.

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-- Forbes (@forbes.com) Jun 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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Pete Hegseth must be ecstatic.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-19 12:12 AM

Pete Hegseth must be ecstatic.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-19 12:12 AM

What an apropos hiccup.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-19 12:15 AM

I don't like to brag, but I'm a very high-functioning alcoholic.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-19 01:07 AM

About twenty years ago a local radio station interviewed a guy who just turned 100. Other than being a little hard of hearing the guy clearly still had his mental faculties. They asked h8m his secret. Answer: 2 beers per day. Every day. No more, no less.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 01:24 AM

I don't like to brag, but I'm a very high-functioning alcoholic.

If Foster Brooks can be a pilot, who can't?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-19 01:27 AM

I also have a relative who turned 100 this year (she lives in another state and I was out of town when she came into town to celebrate her birthday). She still has her faculties and still gets around without physical assistance (no walker or wheelchair). Out of caution she takes a driving test every year. In her 99th year she told my mom that the DMV agent who administered her test told her she drives better than most of the other people he's tested over the years.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-19 01:54 AM

That's horrible, not for her, us. Means you have longevity in your genes. :)

#8 | Posted by mattm at 2025-06-19 08:58 AM

When you see pictures of anybody from the 60s or 70s, even 80s....pictures of people at parties, at their home, vacations, etc.....what do you see?

a cigarette in 1 hand and a drink in the other.

It has to be challenging to determine how much alcohol generates a greater risk of disease such as cancer, etc. when it's hard to separate alcohol from tobacco, poor diet, obesity, other drugs, lack of exercise, etc.

It has to be very difficult to isolate alcohol from those other factors.

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-19 09:42 AM

If Foster Brooks can be a pilot, who can't?
#6 | Posted by REDIAL

"I used to be a bus driver, but I quit. Too many drunks on the road."

#10 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-19 09:49 AM

Alcoholism has ALWAYS been great!

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-19 09:50 AM

#12 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-19 11:33 AM

"Again"????

#13 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-20 07:40 AM

Sipping a Salty Dog while reading this : )

'The Salty Dog is a refreshing cocktail made with gin or vodka and grapefruit juice, served over ice in a glass with a salted rim.'

My wife [before I met her] paid her way thorough college by bartending and teaching at a bartending school ni Ohio. I get perfect drinks as she always measures to ensure a quality cocktails : )

#14 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-20 10:14 AM

Salty Dog is a sissy drink.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-21 08:28 PM

It has to be challenging to determine how much alcohol generates a greater risk of disease such as cancer, etc. when it's hard to separate alcohol from tobacco, poor diet, obesity, other drugs, lack of exercise, etc.

It has to be very difficult to isolate alcohol from those other factors.

It is, but not impossible. They look at the array of dependent and independent variables but they're weighed statistically on their odds of affecting the outcome.

PAL and PAL2 study use multivariate analysis on a wide variety of dependent and independent variables to see which are statistically significant in affecting one's ability to stay abstinent at 1 year.

#16 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-06-21 09:57 PM

#15 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD AT 2025-06-21 08:28 PM | FLAG: I drink perfectly adequate cockatils from my wonderful wife., Also like Dry Bombay sapphire martinis, as well as gin and tonic, vodka and cranberry, Teeling Irish Whiskey and The Balvenie DoubleWood single malt whiskey. Even consume an occasional Yuengling Traditional Lager. Then it is good wines with meals and for celebration it is Perrier-Jout Belle Epoque for anniversaries and birthdays.

Just have a 'varied taste' when it comes to adult beverages : )

#17 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-21 10:56 PM

#15 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD: In the words of the late great RAH's Notebooks of Lazarus Long - "Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks."

I still have a copy that I bought in '78/79 when approximately it came out.

www.baen.com

#18 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-21 11:05 PM

I remember those ball caps that say:

I Don't Have A Drinking Problem
I Drink - I Fall Down - No Problem

Made me think their home lives must be messy

#19 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-22 03:12 AM

With regards to the above about being 100 years old and drinking...

In my previous work, I would occasionally run into people who were 90 and older and walking around with good mobility and mentally sharp as a tack. I would always make it a point to ask them "their secret." They fell into roughly two camps:

One group would say something like, "I never drank, I never smoked," and some would add "I hardly ate red meat."

The other group would say things like, "I still smoke a pack (or more) a day, I always drank beer and loved hamburgers." Some of them even bragged about still drinking beer with the burgers.

BUT...

There was ONE thing that BOTH groups inevitably said..."I don't stress about anything."

That has always been the one constant I've run into with folks who seem to be healthy regardless of whatever they eat or smoke or whatever...they all say they didn't let life stress them out. Perhaps the poor management of how we react to things that can stress us out is the biggest health risk of all?

#20 | Posted by Idependant97 at 2025-06-22 03:44 AM

In my experience... I don't see a lot of really old fat people... other than that... all bets are off with the odds defying.

#21 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-22 12:43 PM

Yeah, I'm sure dropping those guidelines will bring my daughter back to life.

#22 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-06-22 08:01 PM

... the US Government is expected to eliminate the the dietary guideline that adults not consume more than two alcohol drinks per day when new guidelines are released in the coming weeks. ...

Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show (1986)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Intro]
"Get three coffins ready..."
"Huh?"

[Verse 1]
Covered wagon, medicine show
Take you to a place where the healing flows, oh-ho
Weak in spirit, we got the juice
Won't save your soul; it'll shine your shoes, oh

Treated king to kangaroo
Santa Fe to Timbuktu, oh-ho
Don't be fooled by imitation
This is the stuff that cured a nation

[Pre-Chorus 1]
We took the Tube and the high plains too
Never stopped long, just passing through
A drop of the laughter of the maids of France
Makes a hopeless cripple dance, oh

[Chorus 1]
It was really vile weather
When we got tarred and feathered
You could hear the six-guns sound
As they chased us out of town
...



#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-22 11:41 PM

Why does Sec Kennedy come to mind when I hear that song?

#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-22 11:42 PM

Hey, we live in a country, a culture, that ignores human caused global warming, our greatest enemy, so that the rich oil barons don't have to sweat. The rest of us sweat plenty for them.

#25 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-06-23 08:18 AM

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