Practical info for the smarter drinker
Cheers To Your Health? The short story is that drinking is bad for you. Despite the squawking in the press that a glass of red wine a day will be the key to seeing your 200th birthday, alcohol is just not that healthy. It depletes nutrients and offers none in return. In fact, alcohol can …
Alcohol and the Food Pyramid If we were to insert an alcoholic drink into the Food Pyramid, where would it go? Most alcohols are either grain- or fruit-based, so perhaps drinks are not as unhealthy as it seems. Maybe, just maybe, drinking is actually healthy. Of course, like most everything else in this world, it’s …
Consuming alcohol does lots of things to a body besides loosening it up and turning it into a dancing machine. It acts as both a stimulant and depressant by shutting down some brain functions and revving up others, it increases reaction time and so increases the chance of error, and it impairs judgment and reduces …
The Purple People-Greeter It’s a simple problem – you’d like to drink red wine without it staining your teeth. It was funny when your Sno Cone lit up your face when you were 12, and it’s kind of sexy during Halloween, especially in the era of Twilight, but it is generally not a good look. …
The human body is a wondrous and mysterious machine. But, modern science has solved many of these mysteries, some of which are easily digestible by the layperson … pun intended. Simply put, the membrane lining the stomach is highly absorbent. And, alcohol is easily broken down and absorbed into the bloodstream when that stomach is …