Bad Booze News

[scratchline]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008...ins_133553.htm

Read this while sipping some Stagg. Didn't stop sipping.

-Mike

[boss302]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008...ins_133553.htm

Read this while sipping some Stagg. Didn't stop sipping.

-Mike

"Heavy drinkers - those who downed at least 14 drinks per week - had a brain that was an average of 1 percent smaller compared to teetotalers."

ONE PERCENT-- that's smaller than the margin of error, for pete's sake!

Just ate a BBQ cheeseburger with a glass of Bulleit, because it nicely compliments Stubb's spicy BBQ sauce. Then read this article, and poured myself a second ounce.

[barturtle]

Show me proof that those people's brains shrunk over a period of time at a rate greater than average and maybe we'll talk.

[cowdery]

Yeah, I mean, like, my brain is HUGE!!!

[CorvallisCracker]

Yeah, I mean, like, my brain is HUGE!!!

Now, don't go confusin' yer brain with yer haid.

As for myself, despite a lifetime of hard drinking (and other activities durring my misspent youth), my IQ tested at age 50 was only 2.3% lower than at age 10. I can live with that.

[bvscfanatic]

Sounds like a pleasant and more economical alternative to that brain reduction surgery that my chiropractor had been recommending for me.

I find that superior brain power only leads to severe depression in this country.

So here is yet another good example to support my theory that bourbon is health food.

[T47]

I don't use most of what I've got anyway....

[Skunk]

Show me proof that those people's brains shrunk over a period of time at a rate greater than average and maybe we'll talk.

Well you have to pay $15 to read the whole text, but from the abstract:"1839 subjects from the Framingham Offspring Study"..."[showed] a significant negative linear relationship between alcohol consumption and Total Brain Volume (r = –0.25; P < .001)":: http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/con...363&view=short

More worrisome than volume is activity though, and apparently there is an increased risk of dementia too. But add a point to your score if you do the crossword every week...

And now more breaking news:
Use of Alcohol as a Risk Factor for Bicycling Injury
Guohua Li, MD,DrPH; Susan P. Baker, MPH; John E. Smialek, MD; Carl A. Soderstrom, MD
JAMA. 2001;285:893-896
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content...urcetype=HWCIT

[J.W.]

I was woundering what that rattling sound I keep hearing was.

[Hondo]

Hmmm... I think I'm going to use a larger glass so I can stay under 14 drinks per week!