Sentences with phrase «many heavy drinkers»

This headline demonstrates a surprising connection that you wouldn't expect — smart kids turning into heavy drinkers.

A British study found that women with visible tattoos were perceived as less attractive, heavier drinkers, and more promiscuous than females without any ink — which owes to stereotypes about women with tattoos.

The flavanol - heavy drinkers absolutely smoked the other group, performing 25 percent better on average.

As a college chaplain, I have known college students who were, heavy drinkers but who matured into adults who drink only moderately — because, I believe, they avoided the stigma of being diagnosed as «alcoholics.»

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.

Heavy drinkers may deceive themselves into thinking they are powerless to deal with their problem, as if they lacked that «power of taking care» to which Aristotle refers.

This approach invokes the moral cure before treatment begins and challenges the whole notion that heavy drinkers are out of control or lose control because of a disease.

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.»

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....

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.

Column two gives the percentage of the drinkers who could be classified as «heavy drinkers» 48.

The person upon whom we were calling mentioned that he wasn't sure whether he was an alcoholic or just a heavy drinker because he had never taken a morning drink.

It is noteworthy that the Mulford study figures, cited above, showed that heavy drinkers were four times as prevalent among male as among female drinkers.

To discuss whether one is a heavy drinker or an alcoholic can easily become a matter of semantics.

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To add on, chili powder lessens the effects of chronic congestion amongst heavy drinkers.

Casey was also a heavy drinker, a common failing among ballplayers of his day.

A heavy drinker (someone that has at least 5 drinks an evening) can use his / her past experience to recall how to open the door.

Recently I was reading this article and it said that a heavy drinker can open his / her front door more easily than someone that is a casual drinker.

In todays Prem the lifestyle of Tony Adams, Parlour and heavy drinkers, nightclub goers would never last in the game.

Heavy drinkers, even problem drinkers, were good ol' boys a few seasons back.

More recent studies indicate when one spouse drinks more than the other, the couple is more likely to divorce — especially if the heavy drinker is the wife (because it goes against — ugh — «proper gender roles for women.»

More recent studies indicate when one spouse drinks more than the other, the couple is more likely to divorce — especially if the heavy drinker is the wife (it goes against «proper gender roles for women» evidently.

Hartney, E., Orford, J., Dalton, S., Ferrins - Brown, M., Kerr, C., & Maslin, J. «Untreated heavy drinkers: a qualitative and quantitative study of dependence and readiness to change.»

Doctors will be specially trained to identify and treat patients drinking too much and the government plans for 60,000 new doctors to be taught to spot heavy drinkers over the next decade.

Middle class professionals remain the heaviest drinkers, for instance.

The two women who spoke on the record, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, both said the physical abuse escalated over time, including choking and hitting, and that Schneiderman also was a heavy drinker.

HEAVY drinkers might cure their hangover with a cup of coffee and a painkiller — at least if the chemical acetate is the cause of that pounding headache.

They also fit with earlier studies showing that the immune system of heavy drinkers might be less vigilant against cancer.

Potential new enrollees are also generally healthier than the current Medicaid population, with less prevalence of obesity and depression — but they are more likely to be smokers and heavy drinkers.

Szabo says heavy drinkers should beware of damaging their immune systems.

It was designed as a convenient method for individuals to monitor their alcohol intake, which could help reduce unsafe drinking that can lead to vehicle crashes, violence, and the degeneration of the health of heavy drinkers.

Szabo says that the results fit with evidence from medical records that chronic heavy drinkers with HIV die sooner than non-drinkers.

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

Smoking and drinking are often complementary behaviors: smokers are more likely than non-smokers to drink alcohol, and heavy smokers are more likely to be heavy drinkers.

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.

«This goes against the conventional wisdom of many economists, who assert that heavy drinkers are less responsive to tax changes, and has powerful implications for how we can keep our communities safer.»

«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.

-- 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.

The study group included 24 men, age 21 - 31, who were heavy drinkers.

A drug called propylthiouracil, currently used to treat an overactive thyroid, may protect heavy drinkers from cirrhosis.

Among those who have had the highest relative benefit from high fruit and veggie intake were smokers and heavy drinkers.

About 17 percent of both Native Americans and whites were found to be binge drinkers, and about 8 percent of both groups were heavy drinkers.

«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.