How Much Alcohol is Safe to Consume?

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For years, people felt good drinking a glass or two of red wine for the supposed health benefits, but last year the World Health Organization declared that “no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.” The debate over alcohol and health is happening as the federal government prepares to release new dietary and nutrition guidelines next year. We’ll talk to experts about whether light drinking is harmful and what we can expect from the new guidelines. And we want to hear from you, how much alcohol do you deem safe? Guests: Esther Mobley, senior wine critic, San Francisco Chronicle Dr. Gregory Marcus, cardiologist, electrophysiologist and professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco Adam Sherk, scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria - He is also a researcher for the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Alcohol and Public Health Policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	How much alcohol should you drink for optimal health?
1:00.0	Everyone knows that drinking a ton is bad for you.
1:03.0	But for years, there have been some good feelings about red wine's prospective health bonuses.
1:08.0	How nice to think you could unwind with a glass or two of red wine,
1:11.5	and maybe it would be good for your physical health. Last year, the World Health Organization
1:16.5	declared that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health, but what's the evidence
1:22.0	base for that statement? We talk with experts about what our own government's guidelines
1:26.9	could and should be.
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2:02.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I like gin and decent wine, but I also like running and biking and getting as much from this old bag of bones as I possibly can. Are these two desires fundamentally in conflict? How much does light or moderate drinking negatively affect your health? Setting aside, disorder drinking, outright alcoholism, the federal government,
2:09.5	many national governments really, set guidelines for what they consider a moderate amount of
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