Canada _ (Commonwealth Union) _ According to recent government recommendations that state that consuming no alcohol is the only risk-free strategy, Canada should observe Dry January all year long. The government-backed advice recommends limiting your drinking to no more than two drinks a week if you must. From the prior suggestion, which was made in 2011, the recommendations is a sharp decrease. According to such rules, men and women were only permitted to have 10 and 15 drinks respectively every week.
Health Canada-funded research also recommended that all alcoholic beverages have warning labels that must be present. The new suggestions distance the nation from a number of other Western countries. Australia’s official guidelines, which were released in 2020, suggest a weekly limit of 10 standard drinks. The same is proposed by France.
The US advises against having more than two drinks per day for males and one drink per day for women, while the UK advises against consuming more than 14 “units” of alcohol per week, or around six glasses of wine or pints of beer. But Canada is hardly a wholly unique case. The health council of the Netherlands suggested that individuals limit their alcohol consumption to one standard drink per day or refrain from it entirely as of 2015.
If Canadians, who like beer almost as much as they adore hockey, will be persuaded to drink less as a result of this advice is still up in the air. Canada does not place in the top 10 nations globally for drinking frequency, placing below the average for all countries, according to the Global Drug Survey. Canada, however, moved up to sixth place on the “feeling intoxicated” metric, just behind the US and the UK.
The required labeling of all alcoholic beverages with health warnings, which is currently standard practice for cigarettes, is a vital first step, according to CCSA scientists and other experts.
