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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. Re:This just in... by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dunno about the OP, but I have something constructive to contribute: a sense of humor. please go away until you have one, too. kthx.

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