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Dry January Benefits. Temporary Discipline, Lasting Health:
Towards the end of every year at the holiday season, we all seem to have a few drinks.
And while that’s fine, it’s the excesses that cause problems.
A little bit of fun can sometimes spiral out of control and have unforeseen consequences.
But a relatively new program launched in the UK a few years ago is seeing some interesting results,
And the study data is stacking up to back those results up….
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Hangover Cures Are Tough To Find, But This May Be It:
So as all of us get ready for some of the most prime drinking days of the season,
One of the “Ghosts of Christmas Past” that still lingers is: Hangovers.
And as much as we love to live-it-up on the big holidays, the after-effects often still haunt us.
Well, SCIENCE! is changing that with a set of experiments on how to power-up what our bodies already do,
Using natural enzymes to neutralize the worst parts of the drinking experience.
And it looks like they’re getting pretty close to that fabled “Hangover Cure”…
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Moderate Wine Drinking May Be Healthier At Least In Italy:
In the constant-war that seems to be the research-space dedicated to cell-phone cancers, organic vs. non-organic produce, and Does Alcohol Kill You?,
There seems to be a new study out every 3 months telling you the opposite of the last.
Recently, we all heard of one that suggests no amount of alcohol is safe.
This seemed to be an over-reaction typical of WHO or EU health-authorities.
So after a recent study hit the skids over some conflicts, a new team with one of those Harvard docs tried again with better data…
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Here we go again! Alcohol and the health space have an increasingly love/hate relationship, that’s becoming more hate/hate as time passes.
One study after another comes out; 2 Drinks a day is safe. Then 1. Then none. Then,
Well, to add more fuel to the fire Stanton Peele started awhile back,
A team of Danish researchers hanging out on the canals of Copenhagen getting hammered on Tuborg came up with a great new idea.
Alcohol is actually beneficial to you, and it just might reduce one of the conditions we can’t yet fix…
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Alcohol Linked With Dementia, The Odd Effects Examined:
While alcohol can be a lot of fun, science keeps finding reasons for us to be cautious.
And also to think very seriously about moderation.
For example, drinking to excess can result in endotoxin-related inflammation.
But still more consequences loom over the horizon as we progress through life.
And of all people, Power-Drinking British researchers are now reporting on the association between Alcohol and Dementia…
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Alcohol & Gut Microbes, Does A Little Fun Kill Your Health?:
So as science progresses we’re learning that microbes inside us play a very important part in our health.
Whether it’s worrying over how much fiber we get, if we’re too clean, too isolated,
Or if the probiotics we take can even help us avoid serious disease.
One of the other favorite human pastimes of course, is using a little nutritional alchemy to up the fun-quotient of life.
But according to the list of studies in this roundup by SciShow, that fun might have some consequences for that newest & tiniest frontier of our health…
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Pick Your Poison:
As you wade through the sea of feelings and alcoholic drinks at the end-of-year festivities, or festivities at any time,
You may pick one or another for an emotional, contextual, or even marketing-“appropriate” reason.
And though people have laughed-off the idea of different drinks doing different things,
And the Cthulhulian-mythos of “Tequila Drunk”,
Science is figuring-out that those ideas may not be such old-wives’ tales after all…
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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.
Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.
So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”
That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…
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