Water accounts for just over half of what American adults drink on an average day (not counting alcoholic beverages). Water is 51.2 percent ...

In many ways, high school seniors are better behaved than they used to be. The results of the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (...

People lie about how much alcohol they drink, or maybe they just don't remember. This is a well known fact and occurs not just in the Un...

Beer is still the alcoholic beverage of choice for the largest share of drinking Americans (38 percent), but wine (30 percent) and liquor (2...

Pity the thirsty masses of 2006. Back then, there were only 398 breweries in the entire United States. Today, there are 2,843, according to ...

Beer is America's number-one alcoholic beverage, according to Gallup's annual Consumption Habits poll. But liquor is surging. When G...

How many Americans aged 18 or older drink at least one sugar-sweetened beverage every day? According to the CDC, a substantial 29 percent. T...

Only 1.8 percent of Americans aged 18 or older admit to driving while drunk in the past 30 days, according to the CDC. Here is the percentag...

The stereotype is true: the higher the educational attainment, the greater the preference for wine over beer, according to Gallup. Here is w...

Your health in six dimensions: drinking, smoking, aerobic activity, muscle strengthening activity, weight, and sleep. This is what the gover...

Percent of adults who drink alcoholic beverages, 1952 and 2012... Men 1952: 60% 2012: 66% Women 1952: 53% 2012: 64% Source: Gallup...

Beer, wine, and liquor provide 16 percent of the daily calories of the average American, according to the National Center for Health Statist...

One in five Americans drinks a diet soda on an average day, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Women aged 40 to 59 are ...

We get about one-third of our daily caffeine hit away from home, according to dietary data collected by the federal government--from coffee ...

Most Americans drink alcohol and they say they don't drink much. Sixty-six percent of adults aged 18 or older drink, but they say they c...

Young adults are more likely to drink soda than coffee on an average day. According to a Gallup survey , the 56 percent majority of people a...

Gallons of beverages consumed per person per year in the United States... Milk: 21 Coffee: 23 Alcohol: 25 Source: USDA, Economic Resea...

Percentage of all motor vehicle fatalities that involve at least one alcohol-impaired driver: 33%. Source: CDC, Vital Signs: Alcohol-Impai...

What men drink on an average day (number of cups)... Water: 4.4 Regular soda: 1.9 Coffee: 1.6 Alcohol: 1.3 Tea: 0.9 Diet soda: 0.7 M...

Percentage of high school students who drink at least one serving per day of the following beverages... Water: 72.4 Milk: 42.0 Fruit jui...