Gen Z and Millennials Young people lead a significant decrease in American drinking, and Gallup Reconcilaments

A high standard of American adults, 53 %, now says that moderate drinking is bad for their health, an increase of 28 % in 2015. The increase in alcohol benefits is largely driven by adult youth – the age group that is likely to believe to drink alcoholic beverages in one day. ”

As concerns about health effects, fewer Americans are drinking. The survey finds that 54 % of adults say they drink alcoholic drinks such as wine, wine or beer. This is less than any other point in the past three decades.

The results of the survey, conducted in July, indicate that after years of believing that moderate drinking was not harmful – or even useful – is alcohol consumption. According to Gallup data, even those who consume alcohol drink less.

The federal government updates new food guidelines, including those around alcohol. Before the Covid-19 epidemic, Government data showed American alcohol consumption was heading. But other government surveys showed a decrease in certain types of drinking, especially Among adolescents And young people.

This comes alongside a new shield of information about alcohol risks. While it was moderate drinking Once it is believed to have benefits For the health of the heart, health professionals in recent years pointed out overwhelming evidence that alcohol consumption leads to negative health results A major cause of cancer.

Increased doubt about the benefits of alcohol

The younger adults were faster than the older Americans to accept that drinking was harmful, but the older adults wandered into the same opinion.

About two-thirds of children between the ages of 18 and 34 believes that moderate drinking, according to the survey survey, is about 4 in 10 in 2015. The elderly is unlikely that alcohol is harmful-about half of Americans between the ages of 55 years or older think this-but this is also a significant increase. In 2015, about 2 out of 10 adults were 55 years old or older believed that alcohol was bad for his health.

In the past, it was believed that moderate drinking had some benefits. This idea came from incomplete studies that largely did not include younger people and were unable to prove the cause and the result. Now the scientific consensus has turned, and many countries have recently reduced their consumption of alcohol. Earlier this year, the outgoing American surgeon recommended that Vivic Murthi recommend, A sign of bottles of beer, wine and alcoholic drinks This would clearly determine the relationship between alcohol consumption and cancer.

The current food guidelines of the federal government of Americans who do not drink or, if they consume alcohol, men should be limited to daily or less drinks while women must adhere to one or less.

Lydia Saad, Director of Social Research in Gallup, said that the transformation of health advice throughout the lives of the older Americans may be a more gradual cause than young people to recognize alcohol as harmful.

“The older people may be more stiff in terms of the injury they get with recommendations,” Saad said. “It may take a little longer to accommodate or accept information. While, for young people, this is the environment in which they grew up … In many cases, it would be the first thing that young people could have heard during their arrival at adulthood.”

The government is expected to issue new instructions later this year, according to the direction of the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy JuniorWho promised great changes. Kennedy did not hint how alcohol recommendations were turned.

Drinking rates decreased to the lowest level

More than half of the Americans, 54 %, reported that they drink alcohol – which is low in Gallup data, especially between women and youth.

American alcohol consumption has been heading down for years, which accelerated the total decrease in alcohol consumption. In sharp contradiction with Gallup results Two decades agoWhen young adults were most due to the reporting of drinking, the rate of drinking young adults is now just less than middle -aged adults and the elderly.

The American drinking that he mentioned is among the lowest rates since the question was asked for the first time in 1939. During most of the past few decades, 6 out of 10 Americans have reached drinking alcoholic beverages, just sliding below this point several times on the date of the question.

Americans who drink alcohol consume less

Even if fears about health risks do not cause some adults to abandon alcohol completely, these concerns may affect the number of times they drink.

The poll found that adults who believe that moderate drinking is badly on the health of the individual like people who do not share these concerns to report that they are drinking, but fewer people with health concerns have recently consumed alcohol.

Nearly half of those who worried about moderate drinking, they said they had a drink in the previous week, compared to about 7 out of 10 and who did not believe that drinking was bad for their health.

In general, about a quarter of the Americans who drank they consumed alcohol during the previous 24 hours, which is a record in the questionnaire. About 4 out of 10 said that it was more than a week since he poured a drink.

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The Associated Press Amandz Cates contributed to this report.

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