|
Home / News / Tags / alcohol
|
|
More: << prev 50
Every geek is a tough warrior after drinking one beer. Even if after such a courageous act it's quite possible he won't be able to recover for a month. Now a team at University of Kentucky has investigated the link between alcohol and aggression to see why drunks get aggressive. Is this a general tendency o... |
20 July 2007
06:50 GMT |
 |
|
Lack of maternal instinct or severe alcoholism? Polish police announced on Friday that a baby came into the world under the influence of alcohol as his mother was drunk while giving birth!Doctors took the decision of checking his blood-alcohol level when they saw the mother's condition. What they saw left them s... |
19 July 2007
13:36 GMT |
|
|
According to French journalist Sam Bernett, the death of legendary "Doors" front man, Jim Morrison, was not quite as "natural" as stated at the time. As hinted in the Oliver Stone's biopic movie, Morrison's death, 36 years ago, was indeed caused by a massive drug and alcohol overdose. It seems that at the t... |
13 July 2007
10:13 GMT |
|
|
Britney Spears was supposed to release her comeback single last week, but she didn't. That much was expected. Britney went to rehab earlier this year but could not stop her partying spree. That too was expected. Britney is about to crash and burn again. This was also expected, just not so soon.It seems that noth... |
12 July 2007
10:07 GMT |
|
|
Tonight you are going to make history. You'll drink more than everybody else, have a good time and escape inhibitions, but the price you'll pay tomorrow will make you say "It's the last time I do that!"…of course, until the next party comes. But when binging, the consequences will be eased if you eat a... |
10 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
|
|
Vices never come alone. For example, 85 % of the alcoholics also smoke. There are several available pills to help smokers fight the deadly habit, like varenicline, a drug developed by Pfizer that blocks nicotine's action of turning on the "happiness hormone" dopamine neurons. Varnicline is synthesized from the a... |
10 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
|
|
We live in a world in which everything goes faster and if we used to play with toy cars, now kids can grab the wheel of a toy SUV. And before learning how to read, they master a cell phone. They are assaulted with information and offers from all sides. "There is this focus on a more savvy, more informed, more inclus... |
7 July 2007
05:33 GMT |
|
|
Being addicted to sex can be almost normal if it does not affect your social life and mental health. But other types of addictions hint directly to your brain. And some of us can be genetically vulnerable to many narcotic chemicals. There is a wave of new researches revealing the physical aspects of addiction and exp... |
6 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
|
|
When it comes to Britney Spears, some media outlets could say just about anything about the troubled pop star. So you can't believe everything you read. In Britney's case, that statement is taken to the extreme. One of those rumors that popped up recently claimed that Britney was dating none other than her ... |
6 July 2007
08:56 GMT |
|
|
Drinking is chic, drinking is sexy. You get rid of inhibitions, and as America is a nation without inhibitions, over 30 % of Americans suffer from alcohol abuse, as a new research found: 17.8% of them have alcohol abuse problems, and 12.5 % are alcohol-dependent."At some time in a person's life, 30 % of the popu... |
4 July 2007
09:16 GMT |
|
|
Some may feel offended if called alcoholics. And for good reason, as a new research made at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) established a first classification of the alcoholic people in US, resulting five distinct subtypes of the condition. "Our findings should help dispel the popular n... |
2 July 2007
06:13 GMT |
|
|
The race to find new alternative fuel sources is fully underway and some countries are seriously involved in the issue of cleaning up the air we breathe. Ethanol is a good example of such an application, diesel engines can very well run on used cooking oil and even newer sources are being taken into account, like c... |
26 June 2007
02:56 GMT |
|
|
Do you know why your teen kids drink alcohol, smoke, take drugs and have sex? All these make them feel maturer than they really are, as revealed by a Canadian research. With getting older, teens deepen the gap between their real age and their self-perceived age.The team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and th... |
19 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
|
|
One could blame the Siberian cold and long winters but, in many countries, Russians - both men and women - are famous for their heavy consumption of vodka. And this is also applied to Russian communities outside Russia, such as the Lipovans. But when a team led by David Leon at the London School of Hygiene and Tropic... |
18 June 2007
06:25 GMT |
|
|
Even the Aztecs drank their tequila, a fermented beverage made of agave, and produced a long time before the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521. Later, their drink turned into pulque. Later on, tequila turned into the most famous product of Mexico, and now the huge thirst for the drink is killing off more than just our... |
16 June 2007
06:55 GMT |
|
|
They say alcohol doesn't help if you want to get slimmer, even if the beer belly seems to be a myth; beer makes you fat rather by increasing your appetite than by the calories it contains. Now, another negative link between alcohol and physical shape has been found by researchers: people who undergo gastric bypa... |
16 June 2007
06:07 GMT |
|
|
Latino people know why they say "Salud!" ("health") when they clink glasses.Researches made in the last 20 years have showed that daily moderate alcohol consumption (especially red wine) has beneficial effects in fighting against heart attacks and strokes, controlling insulin levels (thus a possible cure for diabetes... |
9 June 2007
05:03 GMT |
|
|
A beer is a dynamic molecular world that does not stop evolving once it is in the bottle. Over 1,000 chemicals have been found in beer, giving it nearly 125 different flavors, referring to tastes, odors, and mouthfeel. About 40 flavors are common to the two broad types of beer, ales (pale ales, amber ales, and stouts... |
31 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
|
|
Many people consider drugs and alcohol as sexual stimulents and aphrodisiacs. The can have a deep impact on sexuality, but the effects can be far from the desired ones. Alcohol is employed to "loosen up" a bit. Of course, it removes inhibitions, easing the inter-personal contact. Alcohol gives people more (sometimes ... |
19 May 2007
12:06 GMT |
|
|
Boys think of all kinds of strategies on how to get girls drunk and then get them into bed. But, in fact, alcohol affects the women's brain more severely than that. It affects their cognitive abilities more than it manages to do in the case of men, and even when women consume less alcohol than men over long per... |
2 May 2007
07:08 GMT |
|
|
It is said that one-two cups of wine daily means a better heart. But a new research made at the University of Mississippi Medical Center revealed that moderate alcohol intake, of just about two drinks daily, can induce breast cancer. Breast tumors that grew in mice which were offered a similar daily drink were twic... |
30 April 2007
04:12 GMT |
|
|
After you get drunk to the bone, you are surely craving for sweets the next day. Well, researchers led by Francisco Sanchez from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) remained open-mouthed when they found that Egyptian fruit bats, close but smaller relatives of the huge flying foxes, also crave for specific... |
2 April 2007
07:15 GMT |
|
|
|
|
