The new nutrition guidance notably removes the previous recommendation to limit alcohol consumption to 1 drink or fewer daily for women and 2 drinks or fewer per men.

The amounts and parameters around how much alcohol is safe for consumption was just altered significantly. Here's what you need to know.

Its previous guidance provided limits for alcohol use to reduce long-term health risks, such as no more than 15 standard drinks for men and 10 standard drinks for women per week. But in a stark change, the new guidance says that consuming more than two standard drinks per week is risky for both men and women — and that no amount of alcohol is safe.

The World Health Organization has said there’s no risk-free level of alcohol consumption. And studies increasingly debunk what have been called protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption, including findings of fewer all-cause deaths, strokes and ...

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Oz said that federal officials are recommending moderation — rather than abstinence — because booze facilitates social relationships, which can have beneficial health effects.

The change eliminates a recommendation in place for 35 years that men limit alcohol consumption to two drinks per day and women to one drink per day. It also followed a years-long lobbying campaign by the alcohol industry, worth some $1.2 trillion in global sales according to drinks market research firm IWSR, to disrupt the health officials' work.