Category Archives: Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol Threshold
It is difficult to set a threshold dose or a dose limit beyond which the drinker is considered excessive drinker, alcoholic or alcohol-dependent. Very briefly, alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse begins when the amount of alcohol ingested is greater than what the body can tolerate, metabolize or oxidize. A consumption of more than four “cups” [...]
Alcohol Makes you Smarter and Quicker in Thought.
How fast it moves a herd of wildebeest? Well at the speed of its slowest wildebeest, and when the herd is threatened by a predator, it is the slowest wildebeest and herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the herd is improving with the steady loss of weaker elements. Similarly, the [...]
Consumption of Alcohol
If before 14 years of alcohol consumption is rare [1], in contrast to 17 years, alcohol is by far the psychoactive substance most consumed during the previous 30 days. Indeed, 8 of the young age of 10 (75% girls and 82% of boys) reported at least one use during this period [2, 3]. This gap [...]