Brain Post: Study Says NOT Drinking Will Shorten Your Life Not drinking is killing you… Seriously. There have been many studies showing that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol (2 drinks/day for men, 1 drink/day for women) is good for your health and can actually lengthen life. These studies generally focus on alcohol being healthy as it thins the blood and causes benefits to heart and circulatory health. A 2010 study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research that followed 1,824 participants between the ages of 55 and 65 for 20 years is showing that the benefits of moderate alcohol use may actually be social. There are some great facts from this study and we’re […] Brains SnowBrains | December 17, 2013 0 Comments
How To: Legally Smuggle Alcohol onto a Plane Alcohol is expensive on almost any flight. Remember when flying used to be fun? Free food, free booze, blankets, pillows, nice flight attendants? Those days are over, at least with USA airlines. Thus, we’ve gotta be intelligent in the ways we approach flying. If we go into it knowing that it’s a rough ride, we’ll be better off. We’ll be even […] SnowBrains | October 24, 2013 6 Comments
Brain Post: Why You Eat When You’re Drunk We’ve all done this. You have a few drinks (or more) and you come home and eat like crazy. It makes sense because it seems to help dilute the booze, help you sleep, and make you less hung over in the morning, right? Not exactly. Amazingly, researchers in the UK, Holland, USA, and Spain have been looking into this stuff […] Brains SnowBrains | June 19, 2013 1 Comment
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