No more than two drinks a week says Canada 

By Dana Malcolm 

Staff Writer

#Canada, January 23, 2023 – Anything over two glasses of alcohol per week is inadvisable and detrimental to your health according to new Canadian guidelines on Alcohol and Health published this January.

The Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) doubled down on their 2022 stance making it clear “drinking even a small amount of alcohol could be detrimental to health.”

No amount or type of alcohol is good for health, not even red wine, the CCSA confirmed, going further to detail what could happen if you go over this limit.

Increased risk of developing several different types of cancer, including breast and colon cancer were logged with only 3 to 6 standard drinks per week.

If you drink seven or more standard drinks per week, heart disease or stroke increases along with the other factors and every additional standard drink “radically increases the risk of these alcohol-related consequences.”

For a global society that thrives on alcohol with more than 2.8 billion regular drinkers the news is sobering.  The CSSA is now recommending that people count their drinks instead of mindlessly opening bottles and sipping along while making dinner.

The new recommendations, yet to be adapted globally, turn previous alcohol guidance on its head, exposing the extreme risk that consuming alcohol in any of its forms has on our bodies and challenging countries to reassess their own guidelines on drinking.