Drinking even one sip of alcohol daily can prove fatal for you. This claim has been made in recent research by an American government agency. According to researchers, drinking one drink of alcohol every day increases the risk of untimely death. At the same time, consuming two pegs of alcohol daily is considered even more dangerous. American liquor companies have raised questions regarding this research.
This report, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, was initially accused of not being made public by the US government. According to the New York Times report, the government did not want such findings related to alcohol consumption to come to light. However, after much effort this study was made public.
What is there in this report regarding alcohol?
Researchers say that they conducted a research on alcohol consumption in two ways. First talked to those people who take a sip of alcohol every day. These people believe that it is absolutely good for health. Researchers say that 1 in 1000 cases were found in people who drank alcohol daily and died untimely. According to this report, these people died due to alcohol related diseases or injuries.
A research was conducted on people who drink 2 pegs of alcohol daily. It is said that 1 in 25 people die untimely due to drinking 2 pegs of alcohol daily.
The officer conducting the research lost his job.
According to NYT, former US Health Department official Robert M. Vincent had asked scientists to conduct research on alcohol consumption. Vincent claims that after this research he was fired from his job. The US Health Department has not made any comment regarding this.
According to Vincent, after this research, the Health Department had asked the government to withdraw the advice of drinking 2 pegs of alcohol under the dietary rules, but the government suppressed it in view of commercial interests.
Why are questions being raised on this research?
Under the diet rules in America, there is permission to consume up to 2 drinks. Standards have been set for this. For example, the definition of a standard drink is something like this: regular beer is 12 fluid ounces (about 355 ml), wine is 5 ounces (about 148 ml) and distilled spirits are 1.5 ounces (about 44 ml).
According to Ned Calonge, head of epidemiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, questions are always raised about the research done on alcohol. Calonje says that it is not necessary to drink alcohol to maintain good health.
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