Working abroad as an expat seems to get more popular every year. The demand for specific skills makes large cities around the world lure foreigners with good salaries and other benefits people won’t receive in their own country. And of course for the adventurers there’s the romantic picture of working and living in a new…
Great news for new mothers who combine breastfeeding with the delight of an occasional alcoholic beverage. A scientific study in Australia showed that a few glasses of wine or beer are absolutely not harmful for the kids who receive their breast milk. The researchers even suggest that the opposite might be true, as the kids…
It’s no secret that the consumption of alcoholic beverages has many health benefits. Various scientific studies have already proven that. But now American scientists say that the most consumed alcoholic drink in the world, beer, could be the answer to the most feared disease of modern times; cancer. Researchers of the University of Idaho presented their findings…
You ever had a discussion with a self-proclaimed health expert that tried to convince you to stop drinking? Annoying right?! Especially since that person probably didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. One drops the word ‘cancer’ a few times and the ignorant majority embraces abstinence. Time to give you some ammo for…
Catchy header ey? Must have been made up by a man who was searching for a new way to excuse his alcohol intake to his wife, right? Wrong! This is one of the main conclusions from Dr. Kat van Kirk’s new book The Married Sex Solution: A Realistic Guide to Saving Your Sex Life. In…
Quite interesting news from the United States. Scientific research performed by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) has shown that people who drink alcohol in combination with cannabis get significally higher levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their blood. THC is the main psychoactive constituent in marijuana. In simple words: you can get a lot more…
Great news for everyone who loves to drink but still worries about the liver. Liver failure soon may well be a thing of the past, just like liver transplants and the frustrating times of waiting and hoping for a new organ. Dutch scientists have made a revolutionary breakthrough in stem cell research. An injection of cultured cells…
And the winner is…. Czech Republic! That’s right, Czechs drink most beer of all in the world. Well, not in total because that’s China with 54.000.000.000 liters, but with around 1.35 billion habitants that comes down to only 40 liters a year per person. When we calculate the average amount of beer drunk per person,…
It’s a known fact that huge amounts of alcohol can cause some memory loss. From a simple black out after a productive night to permanent damage on the brain like Korsakoff syndrome. It’s all fuel (maybe a bad choice of words considering they are teetotalers) for the engine of anti-alcohol propaganda. But now a combined…
Many times before we have read filthy lies about the negative effects of alcohol on the human health. But not often has the propaganda been as bad as the fixed results of a research by Public Health England (PHE). This organisation found out that the number of deaths by liver disease in the United Kingdom in…
Lords of the Drinks 