Alcohol and health
- Alex Bridgeman
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Presumably if the salad had been properly washed in a product designed to kill bacteria and remove their toxins then the consumers would have been fine. So the morale of the story (apart from don't eat leaves) is that salad should be washed in vodka or gin before being eaten.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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It is alleged that doing exercise is good for you (not for me, for you). Alleged.
New learning amazes us. The BBC, in an article entitled Can you get the benefits of exercise by having a hot bath?, reports that hot baths and imagining exercise are also excellent for us.
This is fantastic!
New learning amazes us. The BBC, in an article entitled Can you get the benefits of exercise by having a hot bath?, reports that hot baths and imagining exercise are also excellent for us.
This is fantastic!
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I hate salad and exercise in equal measure, but neither of them compare to my hatred of lying in hot dirty water.jdaw1 wrote:It is alleged that doing exercise is good for you (not for me, for you). Alleged.
New learning amazes us. The BBC, in an article entitled Can you get the benefits of exercise by having a hot bath?, reports that hot baths and imagining exercise are also excellent for us.
This is fantastic!
Please can someone come up with a theory that having a shower is better than salads, exercise and baths?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Having a shower is excellent for your health, and is far better for you than baths:DRT wrote:Please can someone come up with a theory that having a shower is better than salads, exercise and baths?
- the regular pounding of water droplets on the skin invigorates and aids blood flow, reducing cholesterol and the chance of heart attack
- your muscles are active in the standing position, aiding both leg and core strength
- singing in the shower while standing allows correct breathing and strengthens the diagphragm and aerobic capacity, and boosts endorphins
- showering is more environmentally friendly, generally using less water and less energy for heating
- showering makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, and the same sex, makes you wealthy and can cure cancer
- if you really, really insist on a bath, you can always have a shower first to help minimise the "sitting in dirty water" issue
Since from the article linked, thinking about eating a salad while doing exercise is clearly as beneficial as actually doing, so I suggest thinking about eating a salad while doing exercise as soon as you wake, and then think about how great life is because you're not eating a salad while having a stimulating and health-beneficial shower first thing in the morning.
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Good news - According to this new study all we need to do to offset the dangers of alcohol is do some walking, gardening or play golf to offset the adverse effects of drinking........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... f-alcohol/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... f-alcohol/
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This is absolutely excellent news!CPR 1 wrote:Good news - According to this new study all we need to do to offset the dangers of alcohol is do some walking, gardening or play golf to offset the adverse effects of drinking........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... f-alcohol/
From 1980 to 2001 I was a very keen golfer. I have played lots of golf.
From 1998 to 2001 I was a very keen gardener. I have grown lots of things that grow in a garden.
From 2006 to 2012 I was a very keen hill walker. I have walked up lots of hills.
That is 32 years of mitigation in the bank. I should be fine.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Mention should be made of The Onion’s video entitled Top Benefits Of Drinking Water.
• Keeps insides nice and wet
• Flushes out toxins and other pseudoscientific scapegoats for what’s wrong with you
• Nice way to break up time between cans of Dr Pepper Cherry
• Your skin will look better for the two to three days it will take you to abandon this new health effort
• In a grand sense, each glass you consume is one less glass of water for Bashar Al-Assad
“With this collection of informative videos, The Onion shall strike a mortal blow to ignorance everywhere and shatter any pitiful illusions the world once had about how many video views a media juggernaut could accrue.”
• Keeps insides nice and wet
• Flushes out toxins and other pseudoscientific scapegoats for what’s wrong with you
• Nice way to break up time between cans of Dr Pepper Cherry
• Your skin will look better for the two to three days it will take you to abandon this new health effort
• In a grand sense, each glass you consume is one less glass of water for Bashar Al-Assad
“With this collection of informative videos, The Onion shall strike a mortal blow to ignorance everywhere and shatter any pitiful illusions the world once had about how many video views a media juggernaut could accrue.”
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From a BBC article entitled "Drinking a few times a week 'reduces diabetes risk'" :
"The researchers concluded that drinking moderately three to four times a week reduced a woman's risk of diabetes by 32% while it lowered a man's by 27%, compared with people drinking on less than one day a week."
"The researchers concluded that drinking moderately three to four times a week reduced a woman's risk of diabetes by 32% while it lowered a man's by 27%, compared with people drinking on less than one day a week."
- Alex Bridgeman
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I vaguely remember reading an article a couple of days ago that said drinking alcohol improves your memory.
I've been dry for five days now. Time to open the next bottle of port, I think. If only I can remember where I put the next bottle.
I've been dry for five days now. Time to open the next bottle of port, I think. If only I can remember where I put the next bottle.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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The BBC, GP warns Santa to 'give sherry a miss', could have had much better reasoning:
Father Christmas could be doing serious harm to his health by overloading with mince pies and sherry, a leading doctor has warned.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, head of the Royal College of GPs, said Santa could face a raft of health issues because of his diet and busy schedule.
Some of his conditions could include gout, sleep deprivation and alcoholism.
But we can all help Santa get a bit fitter, and inspire ourselves too, she says.
Professor Stokes-Lampard said: "He's overweight, and all of us do our bit to add to his obesity by leaving mince pies and cookies out for him, and milk or alcohol.
"If Mr Claus was a patient at my practice, I would be encouraging him to adopt a vastly healthier diet and take more exercise in the new year."
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Santa should take plenty of sample bottles with him, then the accumulated sherry could last him all year.
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From Consciousness and Cognition 21 (2012) 487–493, Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... /add.14249
Women who reported drinking 1–11 units and men who reported drinking 1–34 units of alcohol per week in both surveys were the reference group. Compared with them, women and men who reported no alcohol use in either survey had a higher risk of sickness absence due to mental disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, diseases of the digestive system and diseases of the respiratory system.
Moderate drinkers off sick less than those that don't drink at all.
Women who reported drinking 1–11 units and men who reported drinking 1–34 units of alcohol per week in both surveys were the reference group. Compared with them, women and men who reported no alcohol use in either survey had a higher risk of sickness absence due to mental disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, diseases of the digestive system and diseases of the respiratory system.
Moderate drinkers off sick less than those that don't drink at all.
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BBC, The peasant whose binge drinking went global:
“Most of Liu's supporters are men - "I guess they also love drinking, maybe there is a little sense of jealousy" - but his wife does not share their admiration.”
“… Dr Sara Kayat, a doctor in London, says - despite his iron constitution - Liu risks passing out, vomiting, and even asphyxiation. There are also long-term dangers, she says. "Binge drinking and excessive alcohol consumption can lead to mental health problems and liver damage, and are associated with increased blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms, and even some cancers."”
“Most of Liu's supporters are men - "I guess they also love drinking, maybe there is a little sense of jealousy" - but his wife does not share their admiration.”
“… Dr Sara Kayat, a doctor in London, says - despite his iron constitution - Liu risks passing out, vomiting, and even asphyxiation. There are also long-term dangers, she says. "Binge drinking and excessive alcohol consumption can lead to mental health problems and liver damage, and are associated with increased blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms, and even some cancers."”
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BBC: Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy? Summary: drink red wine.
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BBC, 'A bottle of wine a night was normal for me', 21 April 2024:
For almost 20 years it was not unusual for Anna Donaghey to drink a bottle of wine every night.
The advertising professional said it was a part of normal life, nothing "atypical or abnormal", until it began to impact her relationships with her husband and children.
Her story, she told BBC Radio Bristol, external, is a "frighteningly common" one.
Since becoming sober, the Thornbury resident has launched a podcast to encourage more conversations about our relationships with alcohol.
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Alcohol, freedom, and responsibility are firmly linked.
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/why-we-drink
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/why-we-drink
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Interesting read. There is another way that the swedes acquire their full strength beer. There is a ferry from Helsingborg in Sweden to Helsingør in Denmark which only takes about 20mins and I travelled on it lots in the late 90s and early 2000s when I used to go to Denmark fairly frequently. You would see lots of Swedes making the trip with hand carts loaded with cases of carlsberg Elephant beer on their return leg that gave them some decent beer for the weekend. The same is done on the bridge from Malmo to Copenhagen but that is a car job as it is a bit obvious in the train shuttle. There are always ways to get a proper quantity of decent drink!flash_uk wrote: ↑12:44 Wed 09 Oct 2024 Alcohol, freedom, and responsibility are firmly linked.
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/why-we-drink