{"id":84033,"date":"2025-08-15T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:52:10","slug":"u-s-adults-are-consuming-less-alcohol-new-poll-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84033\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. adults are consuming less alcohol, new poll says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) &#8211; A record low number of adults in the United States are consuming less alcohol, according to a new poll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new poll conducted by Gallup shows the percentage of adults who say they consume alcohol has decreased to 54%, which is the lowest number by 1 percentage point in Gallup\u2019s 90-year trend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gallup says that the decrease appears to be linked to consumers\u2019 growing health concerns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Gallup\u2019s data, a record high 53% of U.S. adults say that moderate drinking is bad for their health, which is a 28% increase from 2015. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gallup has tracked Americans\u2019 drinking behavior since 1939 and their views on the health impacts of moderate drinking since 2001. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The latest results are from Gallup\u2019s Annual Consumption Habits Survey, which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/693362\/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/693362\/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KKCO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) &#8211; A record low number of adults in the United States are consuming less&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3832,9045,58417,58420,58406,58408,58410,58405,58407,58409,58411,58412,3,21,19,22,20,25,58419,58418,58414,58415,58416,24,58413,58404,58403],"class_list":["post-84033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-drinking-in-us","tag-gallip","tag-kjct","tag-kjct8","tag-kjctnews8","tag-kkco","tag-kkco11","tag-kkco11news","tag-mesa-county","tag-mesa-county-news","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-alcohol","tag-us-alcohol-consumption","tag-us-drinking","tag-us-drinking-adults","tag-us-legal-alcohol-consumption-age","tag-usa","tag-western-co","tag-western-co-news","tag-western-colorado-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}