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Sun 25 May, 2003 12:40 am
This may not be as exciting as Husker's colonoscopy (that's a word with no vowels except 'o', makes you think now!), I spotted this on the nineMSN site.
Alcohol myths
While drinking is one of our most popular pastimes, there are still lots of contradictions when it comes to the pros and cons. GOOD MEDICINE has found the truths behind some of the common myths regarding alcohol.
MIXING YOUR DRINKS MAKES YOU MORE INTOXICATED ?- FALSE
That's false, but it could make you sick. All drinks contain different levels of alcohol and it's alcohol that makes you drunk. Whether it's the 5.5 percent in a cooler or the 30 percent in a glass of liqueur, it's how much alcohol, not what type.
BEER IS THE LEAST POTENT DRINK FOR WOMEN ?- TRUE
While it's a known fact that women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol than men, the latest research shows that women are more biologically tolerant of beer than wine or spirits. It's all to do with an enzyme in the stomach that breaks down alcohol. Tests show that beer, which is around five percent alcohol, is absorbed at the same rate for both sexes. So, girls, if you want to match the guys for a drink, stick to beer.
ANYONE WHO PASSES OUT FROM DRINKING TOO MUCH SHOULD BE PUT TO BED ?- FALSE
If a friend has had too much to drink and passes out, the worst thing you can do is drag them into a bedroom away from everyone else and close the door to let them sleep it off. Alcohol slows down the heart rate and breathing and lowers the blood pressure. The amount of alcohol it takes to make you pass out is dangerously close to the amount it takes to kill you.
ALCOHOL WARMS YOU UP ?- FALSE
You may feel warmer drinking, but alcohol actually cools down core body temperature. So, drinking outdoors in cold weather could lead to hypothermia.
CHAMPAGNE OR ALCOHOL COMBINED WITH FIZZY MIXTURES IS MORE POTENT ?- TRUE
Most alcohol enters the bloodstream via the small intestine ?- the beginning of the bowel. It's separated from the stomach by the pyloric valve. Carbonation can cause the valve to open, which speeds up the whole process.
THE MORE YOU DRINK, THE MORE YOU BECOME TOLERANT TO ITS EFFECTS ?- TRUE
Have you ever wondered why someone can drink you under the table and seemingly walk out of the bar in a straight line? Well, it's not necessarily a good thing. It's a sign that their liver is being constantly exposed to alcohol and is working overtime to cope. And it may mean they've gone beyond being a social drinker.
Quote:While drinking is one of our most popular pastimes
There, it's official!! But you try and tell anyone that.............
Quote:It's a sign that their liver is being constantly exposed to alcohol and is working overtime to cope. And it may mean they've gone beyond being a social drinker.
Which is usually called 'alcoholic'.
And 'alcoholism' is an illness, which must be treated.
[The conception of inveterate drunkenness as a disease appears to be rooted in antiquity. The Roman philosopher Seneca classified it as a form of insanity. The term alcoholism, however, appeared first in the classical essay "Alcoholismus Chronicus" (1849) by the Swedish physician Magnus Huss. The phrase chronic alcoholism rapidly became a medical term for the condition of habitual inebriety conceived as a disease; and the bearer of the disease was called an alcoholic or alcoholist (e.g., Italian alcoolisto, French alcoolique, German Alkoholiker, Spanish alcohólico, Swedish alkoholist).]
Wow, I didn't know that about women and beer.
My question is this: if you can build up a tolerance to alcohol, then wouldn't your pass out amount be much closer to your death amount? I mean, I pass out after a smallish quantity of alcohol relative to some other people I know who aren't much different in size than I am.
Are you a social drinker, or do you drink alone? c.i.
"Does God count as a person?" -Homer Simpson
Cav, We've been told we're created in his 'image.' Whatever that may mean.
c.i.
Mr. Stillwater wrote:If a friend has had too much to drink and passes out, the worst thing you can do is drag them into a bedroom away from everyone else and close the door to let them sleep it off. Alcohol slows down the heart rate and breathing and lowers the blood pressure. The amount of alcohol it takes to make you pass out is dangerously close to the amount it takes to kill you.
There is one more reason why intoxicated person should not be left alone in horizontal position. Alcohol may cause vomiting, and the barely conscious person may just suffocate to death with his own puke.
Mr. Stillwater wrote:THE MORE YOU DRINK, THE MORE YOU BECOME TOLERANT TO ITS EFFECTS ?- TRUE
Have you ever wondered why someone can drink you under the table and seemingly walk out of the bar in a straight line? Well, it's not necessarily a good thing. It's a sign that their liver is being constantly exposed to alcohol and is working overtime to cope. And it may mean they've gone beyond being a social drinker.
Such an effect is characteristic to all the addictions, including these of narcotic drugs. Russian physicians consider high tolerance to alcohol being an advanced stage of alcoholism that requires immediate and intensive treatment, before the irreversible degeneration of personality occurs.
No, Margo, Heavens forbid, I did not mean anything personal.
Mr. Still has already transformed into a Klingon...definitely too late...stop it with the blood wine already!
Margo!! Wedgewood saucer to go with that cream puddy-tat?! Rwow-rwow!!
<you'll keep, Whiskers! Once I've sorted out a certain rodent>
You're going to sort out what, MR. Stillwater?
No, no, the other big grouping of Eutheria (placental mammals). Order Lagomorpha, sub-order Leporidae - no offense to those lovely creatures over there in Rodentia, sub-order Muridae.
<Jeez, ain't we tetchy?>
Time to hang out the dirty washing Margo!!
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad....
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow I want whiskey....
Anyone see the new meow mix commercial where the hubby sees the cat getting all the attention, so starts singing "beer beer beer beer..."
A student of mine became so drunk that he passed out. His friends took him home, put him on the sofa on his back and some time during the night he regurgitated and sucked it into his trachea. They found him dead the next morning. It was only two months short of his graduation.
At one time the State of Virginia sent brochures to the schools for all students to read:
So You are going to drink? Here's what you should know. Then proceeded to list basically the same things Mr. Stillwater has. I think that was one of the most positive approaches that has ever been used by a state government. Needless to say, it didn't survive.
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