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Former model, actress, and businesswoman, Elizabeth Hurley knows, perhaps better than many other women in showbiz, that looking good is essential in her line of work. She also knows that losing weight and keeping fit doesn’t happen overnight without the least bit of effort on her part. However, she has a very g... |
12 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Experts from the Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) Jefferson Headache Center have recently announced in a new study that people usually suffering from migraines experience hangover headaches more harshly than those who do not suffer from the condition. The investigation is meant as a warning for those who know that t... |
19 October 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to draft its first sketch of a global plan of acting out against alcohol. Between now and January 2010, options will be analyzed and stitched together, providing the agency with the first-ever plan of combating the world's fifth leading cause of premature death. Th... |
15 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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David Hasselhoff has reportedly been clean and sober for many a month – at least, that’s the official story. According to several tabloid reports, he’s actually drinking heavily again and, as usual, such behavior sends him straight to the hospital bed. The former “Baywatch” star had to b... |
10 October 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Earlier this month, at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West rushed on stage, cut Taylor Swift short and gave audiences and fans at home a piece of his mind on who should have really won the Best Female Video award. Before the ceremony, he was pictured drinking cognac straight out of the bottle in what is a cle... |
30 September 2009
09:10 GMT |
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Former “Baywatch” star and current America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff was rushed to the emergency room Sunday night after his 17-year-old daughter called 911. Reports initially had it the actor had been binging on vodka for several hours when the paramedics were summoned, but his camp is no... |
22 September 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS) have recently released a new scientific report, showing that rats who consume alcohol when young tend to engage in more risky behavior than their peers, which were not allowed to drink. Scientists have been wondering for a long time if risk-taking is directly c... |
22 September 2009
02:25 GMT |
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All women know by now they should avoid high-calorie drinks, like fancy cocktails, especially if they go out with their friends on a regular basis. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that plain alcohol, like wine, is inoffensive if ingested in large quantities, neither as regards health nor weight. A new study cit... |
2 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The fact that inebriated people tend to speak highly of their future plans and to boast about their achievements is very well known to anyone who set foot in a bar at least once in their lives. In a new study, conducted by two German researchers, they termed this type of unrealistic commitment to fulfilling the most ... |
22 August 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Despite regulation aimed at preventing this, the number of alcohol commercials promoting beer and spirits still air at times when most teenagers are watching TV, a new study by experts at the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has found. In other words, teena... |
21 August 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Though it may seem a bit like a stretch, a new Spanish study has found that women who regularly drink moderate to low amounts of alcohol have stronger bones than those who rarely touch alcohol. The study, which was conducted on more than 1,700 women, is detailed in the latest issue of the respected journal Nutrition,... |
17 August 2009
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In a new scientific study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have offered a new manner of looking at the way alcohol influences brain cells, at a level never before observed. The molecular actions of the active ingredients in alcohol on neurons have been sparsely studied, mostly because all res... |
29 June 2009
05:50 GMT |
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In an effort to identify exactly how quickly alcohol acts on the human brain, scientists from the Heidelberg University Hospital, led by researcher Armin Biller, placed eight men and seven women in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, and gave them alcohol. The participants drank from straws the equivalent of ... |
16 June 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, researchers have been drawing attention to a very worrying trend, namely the fact that teens in college tend to drink a lot. That wouldn't be a problem in itself, if it weren't for the fact that more than 1,500 of them die in alcohol-related deaths each year, and also in acc... |
15 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse’s many addictions have held all headlines for so long that it’s somewhat hard to believe they are not rooted deep, but are rather prompted by something as casual as being bored. Yet, this is precisely what the singer’s mother is telling the media, stressing that all that Amy needs righ... |
26 May 2009
10:22 GMT |
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38-year-old Ewan McGregor was, until not long ago, the spitting image of a charming rock star, as he himself admits it in the June issue of Men’s Health (via People magazine). His addictions were his demons and, until he realized that they could as well kill him one day, leaving all his loved ones alone, he did... |
22 May 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Just yesterday, Amy Winehouse’s representative was saying she was ready to get her life back in order and her music career back on track with a string of live performances at summer festivals in the UK. Granted, this was not the first time that fans got to hear this kind of promise, but it did seem legit enough... |
20 May 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a very complex medical issue, which mostly manifests through the fact that sufferers find they are unable to rest and sleep properly. The problem may affect as much as one third of the American public, with the vast majority of the population reporting sleeping less than they would fe... |
20 May 2009
05:37 GMT |
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The frontal and parietal cortices of the human brain are especially prone to being damaged by excessive alcohol consumption, researches show, but most of that damage can be reversed by simply kicking the habit. However, if patients smoke while quitting drinking, the recovery considerably slows down, a new study publi... |
12 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Enjoying a glass of wine every now and then at the end of a hard day’s work can be just what the doctor ordered but, in the case of many women, they may have taken this a little too far. A new study into the drinking habits of British women has provided evidence that binge drinking and increased alcohol consump... |
6 May 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Over the years, former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff has often kept the headlines with his erratic behavior when intoxicated, as well as with his longtime struggle with his alcohol addiction. Nevertheless, the most recent incident, which took place over the weekend and ended in an emergency visit to th... |
4 May 2009
02:46 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that drinking wine can be beneficial to your health, but its long-term effects on the human body have never before been analyzed at such a large scale. In a study lasting for 40 years, between 1960 and 2000, Dutch researchers monitored the life expectancy and drinking habits of more than 1,... |
1 May 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The exact implications of moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancies are still up for debate, with countless studies highlighting both the pros and the cons. Nevertheless, telling women to abstain altogether equals paternalist prohibition that takes out the element of patient choice on which the current healthca... |
30 April 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Parents should have a good relationship with their children for a vast number of reasons, and adding to those is the fact that, if they do so, then the children are very likely to start drinking at a much later age than they would otherwise. This is very important, psychologists say, because the older the teen is, th... |
24 April 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Pregnant women who drink moderate amounts of wine have problems in bonding with their newborn because the child is badly behaved, the findings of a new study reveal. These women also take longer to recover after childbirth, the same research shows, in what is the first study of its kind to focus on the impact of alco... |
22 April 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Rutgers University researcher Peter D. Loeb, a professor of Economics, has recently authored two new studies detailing the influence of cell phones in the deaths of countless drivers and pedestrians over the past years. His studies span across a period of 27 years, from 1975 to 2002. He has analyzed several key facto... |
5 March 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Dutch researchers announced on Wednesday that people who were exposed to films and TV shows or commercials that featured prominent alcohol consumption were very likely to start drinking themselves, and not later, but right on the spot. They have reached this conclusion after conducting a scientific experiment in whic... |
4 March 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Since alcohol abuse has first been tied to depression, doctors have thought that it's the latter that makes people pick up drinking, on account of the fact that depression has been believed to be caused by factors independent of beverages. Now, according to a new batch of studies, the opposite seems to be true, ... |
3 March 2009
07:03 GMT |
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For a long time, Tara Reid was the ultimate Hollywood party girl and nothing else. Her career took a turn for the worse after “American Pie,” while her reputation as an incontrollable drunk became tabloid fodder. Sixty days ago, the actress admitted herself into Promises Treatment Center, seeking help for... |
13 February 2009
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In late ‘90s, when the Backstreet Boys were ruling over the charts and there was no bigger musical act than this one band, Nick Carter was a ladies’ favorite for his innocent looks, blonde locks and blue eyes. Much has changed for Nick since then, including a 10-year period in which he constantly struggle... |
6 February 2009
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Just last week, a study revealed the relation between a pregnant woman’s consumption of alcohol and the chances of the baby becoming prone to alcoholism in teen years. Now, a new research shows that binge drinking in the first three months of pregnancy increases considerably the risk of premature birth. The st... |
21 January 2009
06:54 GMT |
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The relation between alcoholism and a baby’s exposure to alcohol while still in the womb has long been established. Now, a new research comes to show just how exactly this comes to happen, by defining the relation between a mother’s consumption of alcohol and the way it alters a baby’s sense of smel... |
16 January 2009
13:51 GMT |
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The time of the holidays is also a time when parents fear that too much sugar ingested by their children, usually in the form of chocolate, candy and other sweets, can harm them and make them hyperactive. Some also believe that festive meals, served late at night, can cause them to gain weight, even if they eat respo... |
19 December 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Most likely, many of you don't have access to or cannot afford a glass of exquisite wine and have to abide by a bottle of average plonk that a true connoisseur would call sewage. Perfect wines take way too long to be obtained; the required conditions are not easy to reproduce, while the know-how of the process i... |
18 December 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Sapporo Breweries, one of the most ancient beer producing companies in Japan, apparently said "why not?" to the concept of space beer. Since they have so much history, background, experience and success supporting them, the company's officials were likely to extend their views on their main product. But space be... |
8 December 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Taking notice of the fact that slogans like "Just say No" are not that effective, scientists decided to turn to teenagers' curiosity towards themselves and their bodies, in an attempt to stop surging alcohol usage in the United States. Currently, drinking is the most widespread vice in the country, with a report... |
4 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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Support groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, have more than 5 million members throughout the United States, a recent Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) survey reveals. Some 50 percent of them reported giving up their bad habits after attending these meetings an... |
25 November 2008
06:07 GMT |
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The human brain is designed since birth to begin reducing its volume on its own, past a certain age. The process usually shows a 1.9 percent decrease over approximately ten years, in a regular person. But studies conducted on moderate drinkers revealed that the decrease is much more accelerated in their brains, and a... |
14 October 2008
09:20 GMT |
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As studies point out, alcohol has been with us since late Stone Age (judging by the discovery of beer jugs dated 10.000 BC). It may have even been invented before bread. Still, it is the subject of many disputes and the stated cause of many wrongdoings. Some claim it's a medicine, while others point out its nega... |
10 September 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Unlike humans, who have to pay the price for drinking too much in the evening the next morning, pen-tailed tree shrews and a few species of other animals that consume small to large amounts of alcoholic nectar on a regular basis do not feel the effects of their habit. This is because these species have evolved to a s... |
29 July 2008
02:53 GMT |
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A study conducted in the UK suggests that as much as 25 percent of the population of the country is protected against alcohol-related cancers as a result of having certain genetic mutations that allows the body to eliminate the alcohol much faster than in the case of the rest of the population. This in turn alters th... |
21 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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I'm going to make this easy and simply say that a breathalyzer is a drunk driver's worst nightmare. You might have seen one on television, used on a person or even on you, but how does it work? A breathalyzer is a simple device used by law enforcements to determine whether or not a person driving a certain ... |
9 July 2008
07:36 GMT |
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In recent years, energy drinks have become part of our daily lives, whether we use them when there's a hard night's work ahead of us, an unfinished project with a deadline the following morning or simply when we're out dancing and want to "last the night", as word goes. Mixed with alcohol, energy drink... |
18 June 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Bloating is one of those embarrassing conditions that affect the vast majority of people and yet very few of us are willing to openly talk about it - for obvious reasons. The corollary of this "hush-hush" attitude, the fact that we rarely talk about bloating and usually just grit our teeth and do our best to hide it,... |
9 June 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Moderate wine consumption never harmed anyone - in fact, a study carried out by UC San Diego School of Medicine shows that a daily glass of wine can be beneficial for your health, especially in combating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. By comparison, people who never consume alcohol have double the chances of cont... |
20 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Since our health really is - or at least, it should be - our most precious asset, we're all likely to feel extremely protective when it comes to our own bodies, so much so in fact that to some extent, we all believe in small "superstitions", things we acquired or were taught, various myths about certain aspects ... |
13 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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What they say about men being from Mars and women from Venus is now an almost established fact, as is also that they have different brains and different behaviors. However, this becomes all the more obvious when it comes to them coping with stress. Women facing stressful situations are more prone to depression and an... |
13 May 2008
04:35 GMT |
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It is clear that alcohol consumption can turn a gentleman into a rude beast. For the first time, a new research study published in The Journal of Neuroscience explains why. Social drinkers intoxicated with alcohol have lowered sensitivity in brain nuclei controlling threat detection, while displaying higher activity ... |
30 April 2008
10:44 GMT |
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Jessica Simpson was hospitalized for a few days a little over two weeks ago, and details are now emerging that might point out her rumored kidney infection was triggered by a very agitated lifestyle and a dramatic increase in her alcohol consumption. Star magazine broke the story citing "inside sources" - which can o... |
19 April 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan could hardly be called "sober" these days, despite the fact that the thrice-rehabbed actress has repeatedly claimed she managed to get her drug and alcohol abuse under control. There is no shortage of "Lindsay Lohan drunken photos" depicting LiLo usually accompanied by a friend making her way out of var... |
16 April 2008
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