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Why Loud Music Makes Us Drink More

New findings show music can make alcohol taste sweeter

(Newser) - Make sure you have a designated driver the next time you head to a rock concert: Booze tastes sweeter when it's drunk in an environment where loud music is playing, which means blaring tunes could lead to excessive alcohol consumption, finds a new study. "Since humans have an...

India Raids Bootleggers Amid Toxic Booze Deaths

Death toll hits 170, a dozen arrested

(Newser) - Police raided dozens of liquor dens and illegal distilleries in eastern India today, arresting a dozen people, as more and more people fell ill thanks to illegal methanol-tainted booze . Police are still searching for the mastermind behind the operation, a district magistrate tells the AP . So far 170 people have...

Teens Smoking More Pot but Drinking Less

Annual study shows 4th straight increase in marijuana use

(Newser) - Pot smoking among teenagers is increasing while teen alcohol consumption has sunk to historic lows, according to a national survey . Of 47,000 American students surveyed, 36.4% of 12th-graders had used marijuana in the past year, up from 32% in 2007, as had 28.8% of 11th-graders and 12....

Champagne Gets Out of Its Funk

Shipments from Champagne region rebound

(Newser) - Champagne has got its fizz back: In the first three quarters of the year, France's champagne industry shipped 192 million bottles; tack on the boffo sales that typically occur during the holiday season, and that number will likely rise to levels last seen in 2007, when 339 million bottles...

Brewing at Chicago Starbucks: Beer, Wine

Chicago-area stores to offer booze, entertainment

(Newser) - There's still no chance of getting an Irish coffee in Starbucks, but beer and wine will soon be available in up to seven of the coffee chain's Chicago-area outlets. Following a model first introduced in Seattle and Portland, Starbucks aims to boost traffic in the evenings by offering...

Moderate Drinking Can Fend Off Diabetes in Women
Moderate Drinking Can
Fend Off Diabetes in Women
study says
Nov 25, 2011 6:44 PM CST

Moderate Drinking Can Fend Off Diabetes in Women

If you eat a lot of refined carbs, a little bit of alcohol helps: study

(Newser) - Good news for you ladies who like a little bit of wine and a lot of carbs: A new study shows that middle-aged women who drink a moderate amount of alcohol but eat a large amount of refined carbohydrates are 30% less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than women...

New Music Trend: Rap About Your Own Vodka

Increasingly, rappers sing about brands they sell

(Newser) - Rappers have always name-checked alcohol in their music, but nowadays many artists are going beyond references to actually selling their own brands. From the way the Los Angeles Times describes it, Pitbull’s latest hits sound more like advertisements for Voli vodka. He’s part owner of the liquor brand,...

Beer Can Be Good For Your Heart, New Study Shows
 Beer Can Be 
 Good For 
 Your Heart 
study says
Nov 18, 2011 11:38 AM CST

Beer Can Be Good For Your Heart

...at least in moderation

(Newser) - Bottoms up, beer lovers, because wine fans aren’t the only ones who get to rationalize their drinking habits anymore! Researchers examining 16 studies involving some 200,000 participants have concluded that drinking about a pint of beer a day reduces your risk of heart disease by an average of...

Just a Few Drinks a Day Can Boost Your Cancer Risk
Just a Few Drinks a Day Can Boost Your Cancer Risk
studies say
Nov 1, 2011 12:40 PM CDT

Just a Few Drinks a Day Can Boost Your Cancer Risk

Body of evidence is large, and keeps growing

(Newser) - There’s a constant battle between studies showing that alcohol can be good for you (it might prevent sunburn !) and those that find it’s almost definitely bad for you (it ages you more quickly !)—but you should probably just ignore the headlines that make booze “seem...

Scottish Whisky Ranks Best in World

Old Pulteney takes prize in industry 'bible'

(Newser) - A single-malt whisky brewed in Scotland knocked out 1,200 rivals to triumph as the World Whisky of the Year, according to the influential 2012 Whisky Bible. The Old Pulteney whisky, produced by the Pulteney distillery in Wick, northern Scotland, totaled 97.5 out of 100 points—tying the highest...

It's Official: Alcohol Killed Winehouse

Coroner rules it 'death by misadventure'

(Newser) - It wasn’t a lack of alcohol , but alcohol itself that killed Amy Winehouse. A coroner has determined that Winehouse consumed a “potentially fatal” amount of alcohol the night she died, and ruled it a “death by misadventure,” the AP reports. A pathologist says Winehouse drank a...

Binge Boozers Cost Society $2 a Drink
 Binge Boozers 
 Cost Society 
 $2 a Drink 
study says
Oct 18, 2011 1:13 PM CDT

Binge Boozers Cost Society $2 a Drink

New CDC research tallies up impact of excessive drinking

(Newser) - Are you willing to pay an extra $2 for your beer? That’s the amount, per drink, that excessive drinking costs the US in medical expenses and other societal costs including lost work productivity, car crash-related property damage, and incarceration for alcohol-related crimes, according to a new CDC calculation. Such...

Upscale Wines Come in ... a Box?

Sales are surging and critics are approving of new deluxe boxed wines

(Newser) - Companies selling boxed wines want Americans to pour their next glass of fine vino from, dare we say it, a spigot. In fact, sales of new deluxe boxed wines spiked 19% last year, and wine reviewers are beginning to dispense praise. While upmarket boxed wines may still turn off wine...

Ken Burns' 'Prohibition' a Slow But Fascinating PBS Documentary: Reviewers
 Ken Burns' Prohibition 
 a Long, Tall Drink 
TV Review
Oct 1, 2011 5:12 PM CDT

Ken Burns' Prohibition a Long, Tall Drink

'A Nation of Drunkards' is the best episode: reviewers

(Newser) - Ken Burns' latest mega-documentary, Prohibition, starts a three-night run tomorrow on PBS. Reviewers are praising the 5 1/2-hour survey of America's war on booze, but warn that it's a bit slow and may reveal its best stuff in the first episode:
  • "It's a great subject with
...

Do Your Brain a Favor: Meditate


 Do Your Brain 
 a Favor: Meditate 
studies say
Sep 25, 2011 2:24 PM CDT

Do Your Brain a Favor: Meditate

Other coping mechanisms do more harm than good: research

(Newser) - Humankind has developed plenty of coping mechanisms over the centuries, from long walks to hard drugs. While many of these methods have endured, not all of them are in our brains’ best interests, writes Alice Walton at Forbes . Smoking and drinking, for example, can lead to a vicious cycle of...

Drunken Student Drowns Fêting Month of Sobriety

Niall Pawsey stripped down and jumped in River Thames

(Newser) - A law student drowned in the River Thames after getting drunk to celebrate a month of sobriety, a London inquest found this week. Niall Pawsey, 20, drank more than four times the legal driving limit after winning a bet to go 28 days without alcohol. Kicked out of a pub...

Medvedev: To Combat Alcoholism, Let's Drink Wine

'Alcohol abuse stem from other drinks,' he says

(Newser) - In order to combat alcoholism, Dmitry Medvedev would like Russia to push people to drink more wine. That is not a joke ... and neither is Russia's battle with alcoholism . Medvedev believes that encouraging people to put down the vodka bottle and pick up a nice chardonnay is one way...

How to Know When You've Hit .08%

The 'Wall Street Journal' discovers ... it's kind of hard to tell

(Newser) - It's that magical line that we try to avoid crossing while out on the town: a blood-alcohol concentration of .08%. And as the Wall Street Journal reports, most of us figure a few glasses of wine over dinner won't put us over the legal limit. The paper set...

Cell Phone, Smartphone Survey: Sex or Texts?
 33% of You 
 Would Ditch 
 Sex for Phones 
survey says
Aug 4, 2011 2:06 PM CDT

33% of You Would Ditch Sex for Phones

Respondents weigh a week of sacrifice

(Newser) - If you’d prefer a sexless week to a phoneless one, you’re in good company: A third of Americans agree with you, a survey finds. Some 70% of Americans would turn down alcohol for a week rather than leave their phones behind, and 55% would kick their caffeine habits,...

Could Quitting Booze Really Have Killed Winehouse?

Sadly, yes

(Newser) - It wasn't too much booze that killed Amy Winehouse, but not enough . At least, that's what her family thinks felled the singer, who they say quit alcohol cold turkey three weeks before she died. We won't know the cause of her death for at least two weeks—...

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