Monitoring Alcohol

EXCESSIVE middle-aged drinkers risk setting a similar path for their kids as booze-related hospital admissions soar among older people.  Construction and hospitality industry workers have been identified as among the heaviest drinkers.  Most middle-aged people are drinking at home, but heavy sessions at sports bars also pose a risk.  New VicHealth analysis shows alcohol-related hospital

Alcohol takes a rapid toll on the brain, as most of us know, and caution is well warranted about what we choose to do while under its influence. What isn’t so well known is the hit our brains take much later, after the booze has left the system. The latest research on the topic was a meta-analysis of several

Esther Han 28 August 2018 Thousands of posters warning pregnant women about the dangers of alcohol have had to be removed from the walls of hospitals and GP clinics around the country. Fairfax Media can reveal DrinkWise, a “safe drinking” group almost entirely funded by alcohol companies, recently withdrew 2400 pregnancy warning posters after doctors and

New scientific study: No safe level of alcohol! Published on Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (http://www.healthdata.org)  August 23, 2018. 3 million deaths in 2016 attributed to alcohol; ‘Massive health risks’ The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths

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“Grey-area drinkers” aren’t falling-over drunks, but nor is their relationship with booze healthy. In recent times, many have been giving up or cutting back – being sober is the new black. Few would fit the cliched profile of an alcoholic. Most are closer to what American nutritionist and TEDx talker Jolene Park has dubbed “grey-area

“I do feel a sense of freedom from not drinking anymore, because it took up so much brain space,” said Laura Willoughby at London’s Mindful Drinking Festival, an event founded to suggest that you don’t need to be paralytic to have a good time. “It’s been the best decision of my life.”   Check every

Pressure to drink from friends is the number one influencing factor in drinking alcohol in the UK, a survey has revealed. From the 1,697 men and women questioned, a startling 85% had experienced bullying from friends to consume alcohol. The study was done by One Year No Beer (OYNB), in collaboration with Stirling University. “I

What the research actually says So, what are we to make of this research? In studies such as this, one of the many pitfalls of exploring the association between an exposure variable (alcohol) and the outcome variable (dementia) is the presence of confounders. Confounders are a statistician’s worse nightmare – they are variables that may justifiably be