In Canada, according to the new national recommendations, it is considered free from a health risk if someone does not drink alcohol at all, but if the citizen consumes alcoholic beverages regularly, then the limit will be two drinks per week.
The Canadian government-backed guidelines are of course not mandatory, but a recommendation that indicates to citizens nationally that, according to the experts who developed the guidelines, alcohol consumption is harmful to health.
The news was picked up by the world press at about the same time as the local press. the BBC article He reminds him that the Canadian government has significantly tightened alcohol standards, with the same recommendation in 2011 allowing 10 drinks per week for women and 15 drinks per week for men.
The previous difference between a woman and a man was not born on a social basis, but on a physiological basis. The anatomical characteristics of men, especially their greater body weight, allow for a higher dose with the same mechanism of action.
The new recommendation no longer differentiates between the sexes, and aims to draw the attention of regular drinkers to the health risks that apply to everyone.
The new report, funded by Health Canada, also recommends mandatory warning labels on all alcoholic beverages.
the The Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) report is approximately 90 pages long It details the various health risks that were previously considered low alcohol consumption.
The CCSA defines more than two standard drinks as: 12 ounces (341 ml, 0.6 pint) of 5% alcohol beer or five ounces (142 ml, 0.26 pint) of 12% alcohol wine. Alcohol consumption then increases several health risks, such as developing breast and colon cancer, say the developers of the recommendation.
Critics of the guidelines say that most Canadian adults do not consider three drinks a week to be a significant amount of alcohol. Based on surveys, every fifth Canadian claims to be a regular alcohol user.
Alcohol standards in most Western countries are more lenient. France and Australia consider regular alcohol consumption to be a health risk of more than ten units per week, and the United States and United Kingdom recommend 14 units per week.
