{"id":9459,"date":"2026-01-01T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/dry-january-moderate-drinking-research\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:02:20","slug":"dry-january-moderate-drinking-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/dry-january-moderate-drinking-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why I\u2019m skipping Dry January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Why I\u2019m skipping Dry January<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Like many of my friends, I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a beer with friends. But a recent\u00a0U.S. surgeon general\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/surgeongeneral\/priorities\/alcohol-cancer\/index.html\">report<\/a> warning that any alcohol consumption is unsafe made me pause. Should I embrace \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/thinking-of-trying-dry-january-steps-for-success-202201032662\">Dry January<\/a>,\u201d or even quit altogether?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, at least eight respected medical societies and government agencies have issued reports on alcohol and health. All agree on one point: moderate to heavy drinking causes serious health and social harms. Where they diverge \u2014 sometimes sharply \u2014 is in guidance for people deciding between abstinence and occasional drinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/dry-january-moderate-drinking-research\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Robert M. Kaplan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/dry-january-moderate-drinking-research\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Why I\u2019m skipping Dry January Like many of my friends, I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a beer with friends. But a recent\u00a0U.S. surgeon general\u00a0report warning that any alcohol consumption is unsafe made me pause. Should I embrace \u201cDry January,\u201d or even quit altogether? Recently, at least eight respected medical societies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2183,2143,2332,2180,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-first-opinion","category-nutrition","category-public-health","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}