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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."
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.
Lars T.
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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.