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How much do you drink? Join the BBC’s quest to find out.
Doctors should ask patients about their drinking habits as a matter of routine, say health advisers. But do you really know the answer?
It was so much easier in the old days. A small glass of wine. Half a pint of lager. Or a small whisky.They all contained roughly one unit of alcohol, which is 10ml of pure alcohol. At least, that was the general rule of thumb, however erroneous it was. link to continue reading
Your drinking diary for the week ahead
Source: BBC
Published: December 10, 2009
Every now and then I am forced to re-visit some of the wisdoms of youth. This week, the Journal of Behavioural Neuroscience landed a right hook by publishing a study that suggests that coffee and caffeinated drinks won’t sober you up. Instead, a cup of coffee may make it harder for you to realize you are drunk. OK, the subjects in this study were mice, but at least they are not stupid enough to try and drive 😉
Article: Effects of Ethanol and Caffeine on Behavior in C57BL/6 Mice in the Plus-Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task,Danielle Gulick, PhD, and Thomas J. Gould, PhD, Temple University; Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 123, No. 6.
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Published: November 19, 2009
The type of drink did not appear to change the results
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.
The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.
Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.
Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year. ….continue reading
Source: BBC
Published: October 14, 2009
Today’s focus is on alcohol abuse.The World Health Organization is launching the first global war against alcohol abuse.Can it replicate the success of the anti-smoking campaign?Well that at least is the hope of the World Health Organization, which, between now and January, will be honing its draft of the first global strategy on reducing health damage from alcohol abuse, the fifth leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide.
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Source: New Scientist
