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Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking

Posted by timothy on from the eat-up-everyone dept.

jeepliberty writes "CNN has a story that the invasive ground cover vegetation Kudzu is being tested to curb binge alcohol drinking. In the health story posted Monday, researchers at the Harvard-affiliated McClean Hospital in Boston stated that volunteers who were given kudzu drank about 50% less beer in a 90-minute period than the group that was given a plecebo. The kudzu group got just an intoxicated."

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  1. Well duh... by kniLnamiJ-neB · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone gave me a kudzu leaf, I'd probably think I'd had too much to drink already.

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  2. So... by GypC · · Score: 4, Funny
    Kudzu's incredible rate of growth and expansion of territory is just God's way of telling us we drink too damn much.

    "Here eat some already! It's all over the place now. And lay off the sauce."

  3. Not so sure by jtshaw · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it makes you feel drunker quicker eh? So instead of having 2 beers in 2 hours and driving safely home I could have 2 beers in 2 hours and get a DUI?

  4. Re:This just in... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 2, Funny


    Well, ground horn of rhinoceros and dried tiger penis has been used to treat impotence and other ailments "safely and effectively" in China for for more than a millennium. Guess that has to work too.

    Please cite your references.

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  5. I drank lots of alcohol but by PaddyM · · Score: 2, Funny

    when I tried kudzu, it said that my brain appeared to have been removed. Would I want to:
    Remove Configuration, Keep Configuration, or Do Nothing

  6. New hardware? by youknowmewell · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was wondering what Kudzu had to do with decreasing drinking? I'd think that if Kudzu didn't find your new hardware it would actually have the opposite effect.

  7. Re:This just in... by Blkdeath · · Score: 2, Funny
    Please cite your references.

    What is this, a post for the sake of posting something? References? How about thousands of years of documented literature, lore, endangered species cries (you know, kill tiger, take penis, leave remains to rot. Ditto rhino and horn), black market crackdowns, illegal imports into North America, Europe et al?

    You demanded references, I ask that you wait until you have something constructive to contribute before wailing on the Reply link.

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  8. Re:rahh, you're missing the point here ... by bcattwoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad this new didn't come out sooner. With all the end of year frat parties that have probably been going on we could have nipped this kudzu problem in bud.