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Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking
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."
Kudzu grows as fast as one foot per day.
If only beer grew this fast in the wild!
Depends... how long did it take you to consume them? 3 years, probably not. 3 minutes, probably so.
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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.
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I mean, come on! Anyone who's ever dealt with it knows that kudzu stops everything.
Why not say "kudzu stops house panting" or "kudzu stops lawn mowing" or "kudzu stops grocery shopping" or "kudzu stops carjackings" or...well, the point is, unless you fight back with a nuke-it-from-orbit mentality, kudzu stops everything.
What? They ate it? Eeew.
--MarkusQ
"Lukas was not certain why but speculated that kudzu increases blood alcohol levels and speeds up its effects. More simply put, the subjects needed fewer beers to feel drunk."
:" THE SUBJECTS NEEDED FEWER BEERS TO FEEL DRUNK"
I REPEAT
Now that I brought the important point to your attention, please consider the difference.
On one side a process to cure drunkeness
On the other side the same process to get me high faster on less money...
as MY beer sure ain't free, this mean that grazing a few kudzu leaves as an appetizer will find me dancing half naked after two shots...
Next thing we hear, kudzu will become a rarity as all night clubs in the world are collecting as much as they can so their parties can be more fun 8)
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In other news, researchers have proven that performing trapeze acts without a net dramatically reduces that chances that a person will die of heart disease. Astonishingly, persons with less skill in acrobatics show the greatest overall reduction in heart disease deaths!
Maybe not so astonishing. What is astonishing is that the people who only do one net-less trapeze act a day have a lower mortality rate than the people sitting int the audience....
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Based on the article it looks like BAC level is still elevated similarly as the control. This is an important point of the article... It would follow that the kudzu is making the alcohol travel through the stomach lining and into the bloodstream faster. But, on the flip-side, your liver metabolizes alcohol at a basically fixed rate. Try this experiment with real alocoholics (or hardened binge drinkers) that don't naturally moderate their own consumption based on thier perceived level of enebriation, and they could possibly drink themselves into a coma.
With major beer producers now adulterating their products with such odd additives as guarana and caffeine, they would have to be worried that if a couple of herbal pills meant that Joe Nineteenyrold would only need a beer or two before he's blitzed, their profits would be hurt. How long before the big brewers and distillers lobby for a ban?
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