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If you drink three or more alcoholic drinks in a week, you are putting your health at risk. That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Center on Substance Abuse and Addiction (CCSA). The Government of Canada’s current recommendations are more than a decade old. Armed with new information from nearly 6,000 studies, the CCSA is proposing an update to Canada’s low-risk drinking guidelines.
Dr. Catherine Paradis is the CCSA’s Interim Associate Director of Research. She is also the co-chair of this new report. He tells us what we’ve learned about how alcohol affects our health, the new guidelines CCSA hopes Canadians will follow and why they want mandatory portion labels on alcoholic beverages.