Health & Beer

Inflating Binge Drinking Statistics

October 6, 2010

The biggest problem with binge drinking statistics is that the definition keeps changing. Over the last few decades it’s gone from somewhat vague to an increasingly narrow definition. Each change in the definition increases the number of binge drinkers. It’s not that more people are binge drinking necessarily, but that more people fall under the [...]

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Original AA Bible More Religious

October 2, 2010

I’ve been somewhat suspicious of Alcoholics Anonymous for many years. I grew up with an alcoholic stepfather, and had some experience with AA when I was younger, which you can read about in an earlier post. One of my big issues has been the idea of powerlessness and giving yourself over to a “higher power.” [...]

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Anatomy Of A Hangover

August 28, 2010

Here’s an interesting couple of infographics about how a hangover effects your body. The first is from Sloshspot (though I can’t find the original post) and the second is from an academic paper, Alcohol Hangover: Mechanism and Mediators, written in 1998. For a larger view, click here. For a larger view, click here.

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Alcohol Consumption On The Rise

July 22, 2010

A new study was just published online, and will be in print in next month’s journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research with the nearly impenetrable title Sociodemographic Predictors of Pattern and Volume of Alcohol Consumption Across Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites: 10-Year Trend (1992–2002). CNN simplified the story’s title, originally from Health.com, to More Americans Drinking [...]

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Less Than 300 Chronic Drunks

July 12, 2010

Presumably to bolster his support for the proposed alcohol fee in San Francisco, Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius’ newest column, Chronic Drunks’ Treatment Costs S.F. Big Bucks, highlights the use of emergency and health services by the city’s chronic drunks. And it totals a lot of money and understandably frustrates the city’s service providers. But here’s [...]

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Read This, Not That

May 25, 2010

I started to write about this nonsense last year, when the authors of Eat This, Not That declared Sierra Nevada Stout to be the “worst beer” based almost solely on the fact that it’s 210 calories. This year, they’ve declared Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale to be the “worst beer for 2010,” again based [...]

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Moderate Drinking Lowers Diabetes Risk

May 6, 2010

A recent study from several universities in the Netherlands shows as much as a 40% decrease in the risk of type 2 diabetes for people who drink alcohol in moderation as compared to people who abstain altogether. Reuters is reporting today about the study, which went online last week at the website for the American [...]

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Beer, Health & Nutrition

March 15, 2010

There’s a nice article by the nutrition correspondent for Ask Men, Simon McNeil, entitled The Health Benefits of Beer. There’s no new ground covered, but he does offer a good overview of recent findings showing that beer is healthier for us — in moderation of course — than previously believed. It’s also great to see [...]

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Your Worst Nightmare

March 10, 2010

I probably shouldn’t speak for you, but this is certainly my worst nightmare. I tweeted this yesterday, but thought it still deserving of a snarky comment again today. Somewhere near Manchester, England is the Alcohol-Free Shop, a store dedicated to all things non-alcoholic. They carry non-alcoholic beer, wine, cider, ready-made cocktails and celebration drinks. They [...]

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Dem Bones & Beer Again

February 10, 2010

Earlier this week, both the UK Guardian and Reuters had stories about a study which confirmed that beer is a very rich source of silicon. It was done by Charlie Bamforth, among others, at the Department of Food Science & Technology at U.C. Davis, and the study, Silicon in Beer and Brewing, “found beer is [...]

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Marin Brewing Releases E.S.CHI

February 1, 2010

Marin Brewing released their newest beer, an herbal beer made in collaboration with San Anselmo herbalist Dr. Yen-Wei Choong. He runs the Yellow Emperor Natural Healing Center and Zen Garden and has been involved with Chinese herbs all his life. For the last twenty, he’s been working on just the right combination of herbs to [...]

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Texas Beer Columnist Throws Beer Under The Bus

January 14, 2010

This is strange and perplexing, especially given all the attacks on alcohol in both this country and, as I’ve recently been highlighting, in the UK as well. Beer columnist Eric Braun, who writes for the San Antonio Express-News, in his most recent column began with this incendiary headline: Beer Is Not Health Food. Except that [...]

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Stuff & Nonsense, Parts 6 Through 9

January 14, 2010

By now, even the casual Bulletin reader has likely noticed that I’ve been following Pete Brown’s brilliant refutation of his national health service’s attack on alcohol, beginning with, Stuff & Nonsense: The UK Health Select Committee Report On Alcohol. The first five parts of Pete’s rebuke have been published over the past few days, and [...]

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Stuff & Nonsense, Part 5

January 13, 2010

By now, even the casual Bulletin reader has likely noticed that I’ve been following Pete Brown’s brilliant refutation of his national health service’s attack on alcohol, beginning with, Stuff & Nonsense: The UK Health Select Committee Report On Alcohol. The first four parts of Pete’s rebuke have been published over the past few days, and [...]

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