With alcohol consumption dropping by more than 18 percent since 2004, food and drink trends reporter, Claire Pheonix, explores the latest innovations in non-alcoholic drinks.
Studies that compare motor skill delays and
developments with alcohol consumption in infants are basing their research on mothers who drank at least one alcoholic beverage per day for three months straight.
Julie Mennella, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia who studies the effect of alcohol on lactation, explains that while prolactin (a hormone that aids milk production)
increases with alcohol consumption, oxytocin (a hormone that's responsible for milk letdown) decreases.
Glutathione can be depleted by eating conventional foods that are high in pesticides and insecticides, as well
as with alcohol consumption.
Energy expenditure through leisure - time physical activity had a U-shaped
relationship with alcohol consumption, with women who consumed intermediate amounts of alcohol having the highest level of physical activity.
Many scenes feature cigarette and tobacco use (accurate for the periods portrayed in this film)
along with alcohol consumption, sometimes to the point of intoxication.
A report on the research, published in the September issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, analyzed all alcohol ads that appeared in U.S. magazines from 2008 to 2010 to determine whether messages about responsibility define responsible drinking or provide clear warnings about the risks
associated with alcohol consumption.
Having performed extensive research on alcohol and its effects on health throughout her career, Mariann Piano, professor and head of the department of biobehavioral health science in the UIC College of Nursing, knew PEth is a biomarker associated
with alcohol consumption, but it had never been measured in young adults.
The keys, of course, are moderation — both
with your alcohol consumption and your food consumption.
What's going on
with alcohol consumption — is it lending a hand in the battle of the bulge or packing on more pounds?