Sentences with phrase «in heavy drinkers»

Another thing that confounds the reports on whether alcohol contributes to weight gain is the fact that the game changes in heavy drinkers.

It may explain why taste was impaired in heavy drinkers and light drinkers were less likely to have smell issues.

Reality: Even in heavy drinkers, alcohol consumption doesn't kill brain cells.

Physical activity increased with the number of cups of tea per day from 43 % in the moderate tea drinkers to 46 % in the heavy drinkers.

Thus, faster metabolization of alcohol in heavy drinkers did not lead to better performance on the more complex task.

-- While the odds were higher in heavy drinkers and smokers compared to people who never drank heavily and never smoked, respectively, the associations were not statistically significant.

But there are several points that deserve special emphasis here: (1) «The radical new view of alcoholism, not as a disease but as a «central activity in heavy drinkers» way of life,» as described by Herbert Fingarette... clearly has transforming implications for conceptualizing and dealing with the ethical issues in alcohol addiction....

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He is concerned that believing one is unable to control one's drinking may in fact discourage a heavy drinker from trying to stop.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

Instead we perceive a much larger and more diverse assortment of individual heavy drinkers who have little in common except that (1) they drink a lot, (2) they tend to have many more problems in life than nondrinkers or moderate drinkers, and (3) they show a puzzlingly inconsistent ability to manage their drinking» (p. 99).

As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

The lawyer: The lawyer was a «heavy drinker» and, in confessing his «weakness,» he expressed a belief that there was «something in the Bible that says no drunkard shall have any part in the kingdom of God.»

In addition to hampering academic excellence, binge drinking also inhibits ethical development by focusing heavy drinkers inwards, on private self - indulgence, rather than outwards to service of others.

Binge drinking hampers academic excellence insofar as heavy drinkers are more likely to skip class, fall behind in classwork, and have alcohol - related health problems that hamper academic success.

Those whom I have designated «heavy drinkers» were in the fifth category.

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Mainstream, commercial beers are in decline with drinkers wanting new and interesting offerings that small craft brewers are providing, albeit in tiny quantities, while the shifting trend toward better health and wellbeing has also dulled the appeal of heavy, full - strength beers.

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Other than that, I do recommend this little coffee maker to anyone who lives alone or isn't a heavy coffee drinker and just needs a quick cup of coffee in the morning.

Former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, testifying in a child custody battle with his estranged wife, described her as a heavy wine drinker who once punched him.

Binge drinkers must have had at least two episodes of heavy drinking in one sitting in the last month.

Economic losses mirror hangover trends, in that it isn't the heaviest drinkers who do the most damage.

Lee is hoping to do further work in countries such as South Korea to reveal any differences between ethnic groups, as well as to study more women who drink higher amounts of alcohol, to investigate whether the possible difference between genders holds up for heavier drinkers.

«We know that in humans, heavy drinking is associated with increased separation rates in couples in which one of the partners is a heavy drinker and the other is not, while separation rates don't seem to increase when both partners drink in a similar manner, or don't drink at all,» says Andrey Ryabinin, of Oregon Health & Science University and one of the study's authors.

After an 11 - minute training session and encouragement to continue practising mindfulness — which involves focusing on what's happening in the present moment — heavy drinkers drank less over the next week than people who were taught relaxation techniques, according to the study published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.

That said, the difference in energy saved by using one method over another is negligible: Choosing the most efficient process might save a heavy tea drinker a dollar or so a year.

«Hispanics may find it important to know that heavy drinkers can develop ALD at a younger age, that obesity contributes to this risk, and that preventive steps should be taken if their relatives or friends engage in risky drinking behavior,» said Medici.

Published in an upcoming issue of Clinical Psychological Science, the researchers found that compared to their peers who drink only in social settings, teens who drink alone have more alcohol problems, are heavier drinkers and are more likely to drink in response to negative emotions.

Brumback provides an example of how this could play out in the real world, «Say a heavy drinker is out at a restaurant and becomes intoxicated.

The differences in blood pressure were small, with heavy coffee drinkers having a slightly lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) and higher diastolic blood pressure (DBP) compared to non-drinkers when adjusted for age.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Prairie vole pairs split up if only one is a heavy drinker»

In a prior report, the authors showed that light and heavy drinkers showed similar levels of impairment on both tasks during the initial testing.

Tea had a more marked effect on blood pressure than coffee, with a 4 - 5 mmHg decrease in SBP and 3 mmHg decrease in DBP in the heavy tea drinkers, compared to non-drinkers, when adjusted for age.

In scenarios such as this, alcohol tolerance may in fact lead heavy drinkers to judge that they are not impaired and attempt more difficult taskIn scenarios such as this, alcohol tolerance may in fact lead heavy drinkers to judge that they are not impaired and attempt more difficult taskin fact lead heavy drinkers to judge that they are not impaired and attempt more difficult tasks.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, a team led by Andrea King, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, analyzed the subjective response of 104 young adult heavy social drinkers to alcohol and tracked their long - term drinking habits.

To help understand the development of ALD, this study used a rodent model to examine differences in liver damage between binge drinkers and heavy drinkers.

Heavy social drinkers who report greater stimulation and reward from alcohol are more likely to develop alcohol use disorder over time, report researchers from the University of Chicago, May 15 in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

Long sleep duration was more common among heavy drinkers, but only in black men and white women.

The initial assessment when the participants were in their 20s revealed that the heavy drinkers showed a strongly positive preference to alcohol, reporting greater stimulating effects, «liking», and «wanting more», with lower sedative and cortisol effects.

In a recent study in BMJ of over 3,500 men and women, Doty, Harvard's Gang Liu and their colleagues found that many heavy drinkers had impaired taste but not smell, while most light to moderate drinkers were left unscathed and even fared better on smell tests than people who didn't drinIn a recent study in BMJ of over 3,500 men and women, Doty, Harvard's Gang Liu and their colleagues found that many heavy drinkers had impaired taste but not smell, while most light to moderate drinkers were left unscathed and even fared better on smell tests than people who didn't drinin BMJ of over 3,500 men and women, Doty, Harvard's Gang Liu and their colleagues found that many heavy drinkers had impaired taste but not smell, while most light to moderate drinkers were left unscathed and even fared better on smell tests than people who didn't drink.

But a new study published in Archives of General Psychiatry by University of Chicago researchers finds that heavy drinkers actually experience greater sensitivity to the rewarding and stimulating effects of alcohol, along with lower sedation.

«In other words, you can take a 150 - pound male light drinker and a 150 - pound male heavy drinker and give them each the exact same dose of alcohol, but their brains respond very differently to this substance, hence the divergent experiences and mood reports after consumption.

In fact, a 2010 study by Rabiner and his colleagues found that freshmen who reported having attention problems their first semester were more likely to take up stimulant misuse by the end of their sophomore year, even if they were not heavy drinkers and users of marijuana or other drugs.

A study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics found that patients with chronic hepatitis C who had three or more drinks a day were five times more likely to die than heavy drinkers without the disease.

But they add to the «strong, consistent evidence» that people who drink in moderation are less likely than nondrinkers or heavy drinkers to experience health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, says Qi Sun, MD, the lead author of the study and a nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.

According to a round - up of studies published in Consumer Reports, moderate amounts of red wine may confer some benefits, but any pluses rapidly change to risks for heavy drinkers.

While a 2006 French study found that people with diets high in beta - carotene had a slower decline in lung function over an eight - year period, heavy smokers and drinkers may not benefit.

Plus, many coffee drinkers are only adding calories and fat to their diet by mixing in heavy cream and too much sugar.

There was an article posted in the NY Times last year, basically reviewing some new science on the difference in longevity between different groups of people: non drinkers, moderate drinkers, heavy drinkers.

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