Demand Sound Science in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines

Contact Congress & USDA by August 13

The federal government is currently updating guidance on healthy diets, called the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). For decades, the DGA has provided evidence-based, practical information about diet and health, including information on alcohol. Since 1990, the DGA has advised adults who choose to drink, to do so in moderation and has defined moderation as no more than one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men.

Now, an advisory committee is proposing the government slash the definition of moderate drinking in half for men, with insufficient scientific evidence to support the change. In fact, the advisory group’s 835-page report(see chapter 11) admits that “only one study examined differences among men comparing one versus two drinks.” This is far from the preponderance of evidence that would be needed to reverse decades of U.S. guidance that defines an adult man having two glasses of wine at a family meal as drinking in moderation.

Wine Institute has already been advocating against any such change with a formal letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We need you, your colleagues and industry partners to get involved to make sure that Congress and the USDA understand why this would be a disservice to consumers. To ensure your sentiments are reviewed by administration officials, please send your statement through the link below before the public comment period closes on Thursday, August 13, 2020.

SEND A MESSAGE THAT YOU OPPOSE ANY CHANGE TO THE GUIDANCE ON MODERATE CONSUMPTION→