Practical info for the smarter drinker
Doesn’t just knowing there are three health benefits make you feel better? We should probably stop right here and think no more on the subject, but then no one would believe us at parties if we couldn’t back up our healthy habits with facts. Health Benefit #1 Although these aren’t in any order, it may …
The Liver: A Body’s Booze Defense System The liver is one of the most amazing machines in the human body. The fact that it can purify nearly any fool thing people can dump down their gullets is only the tip of the iceberg for this wonderful lozenge of organ love. Alcohol is basically a poison …
Booze (Unfortunately) Sets Hearts Ablaze It’s a dreaded gastrointestinal experience: that slowly creeping burn that rolls out over your chest and up into your throat, making you feel like there’s gassy lava pumping through your heart. Mmmm … heartburn from drinking! Once it arrives there’s little you can do but wait it out. Sure, you …
No one wants to hear that choices for life improvement can come with negative consequences, but it’s often hard to predict how changing one’s body will change that body’s future. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association links bariatric surgery with an increased risk of alcohol use disorders. A breakdown …
In the ultra-safe, padded and padlocked 21st century a woman who drinks while pregnant might be burned at the stake. Okay, so maybe she won’t be charbroiled, but she’ll definitely be ejected from the PTA and the golf club’s biannual garden party. That is, if she’s living free in the U.S.A. Soon-to-be moms in Denmark …