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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."

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  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."