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#20831 - 01/20/12 09:07 AM Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN
Steve C WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 2780 Loc: Fresno, CA	This just in, from UCLA: (Thanks, Wagga) From The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress We're filing this from the pub, naturally By Anna Leach Posted in Biology, 20th January 2012 17:53 GMT Quote: Pour yourself another one, quickly, as scientists have proven that alcohol can double life-span. Moderate levels of alcohol delivered an increase in longevity among test subjects in a recent study that Steven Clarke, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and senior author on a study published yesterday in the journal PLoS One, described as "shocking"......
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#20833 - 01/20/12 10:05 AM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Steve C]
Mike Condron WHA member Registered: 11/05/09 Posts: 170 Loc: Now Manteca, CA	The one beer to one hundred gallons of water sounds like the recipe for Bud Lite. _________________________ Mike Your limit is the thing you did just before the one that killed you. Anon
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#20834 - 01/20/12 10:13 AM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Mike Condron]
wagga Registered: 10/07/09 Posts: 987 Loc: Fresno, CA	Originally Posted By: Mike Condron The one beer to one hundred gallons of water sounds like the recipe for Bud Lite. Which is like having sex in a canoe... _________________________ Adventurum veris sub ubi albus nihil. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
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#20837 - 01/20/12 01:20 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: wagga]
AlanK WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 394 Loc: Glendale, CA	Originally Posted By: wagga Originally Posted By: Mike Condron The one beer to one hundred gallons of water sounds like the recipe for Bud Lite. Which is like having sex in a canoe... Some people get a lot out of a beer.
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#20841 - 01/20/12 02:02 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: AlanK]
SierraNevada WHA member Registered: 09/05/11 Posts: 171 Loc: NorCal	Great news! I'm all over this one. According to my back of the beer bottle calculations, I should live to the ripe old age of 438, if my liver holds out. Cheers!
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#20844 - 01/20/12 02:34 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Steve C]
RoguePhotonic Registered: 12/08/09 Posts: 381 Loc: Bakersfield CA	I don't doubt it. Not only do I not drink but I have never drank enough to feel anything from it even once and now I am 27 with a quickly expanding head of grey hair and it does not run in my family. But then again I stress heavily for a number of reasons that alcohol could not help so I don't want to make a complete fallacy of causation and correlation. Edited by RoguePhotonic (01/20/12 02:37 PM) _________________________ Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen ~ John Muir FlickR
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#20863 - 01/20/12 07:20 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: wagga]
Steve C WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 2780 Loc: Fresno, CA	Originally Posted By: wagga Originally Posted By: Mike Condron The one beer to one hundred gallons of water sounds like the recipe for Bud Lite. Which is like having sex in a canoe... > Which is like sex in a canoe... In case anyone asks why: Click to reveal.. 'Cause it's f....ing near water!
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#20864 - 01/20/12 07:27 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Steve C]
Bee WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 755 Loc: Northern California	This one is sinking fast.... _________________________ The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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#20866 - 01/20/12 08:01 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Bee]
Steve C WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 2780 Loc: Fresno, CA	> This one is sinking fast.... Which opens the door to yet another wagga special... From the WITWHH thread: Originally Posted By: wagga Not a new puzzle, just an image that connects LXXXIII and LXXIX (Captain Stay Gone). Story with details in the HufPo - they'll name a drink after the this one... "I'd like to order a Schettino on the rocks, Sunken not stirred please. ...and with everything on the side."
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#20891 - 01/21/12 12:34 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: Steve C]
AlanK WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 394 Loc: Glendale, CA	Originally Posted By: Steve C In case anyone asks why: Click to reveal.. 'Cause it's f....ing near water! I think I once heard Coors compared to sex in a canoe.
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#20941 - 01/23/12 04:40 PM Re: Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN [Re: AlanK]
lynn-a-roo WHA member Registered: 08/14/10 Posts: 293 Loc: OrangeCounty	I'm so glad I didn't miss this post. Good one, SteveC, you all gave me a good chuckle.
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#21676 - 02/29/12 02:03 PM Re: Schettino on the rocks [Re: Steve C]
Steve C WHA member Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 2780 Loc: Fresno, CA	Originally Posted By: Steve C - they'll name a drink after the this one... "I'd like to order a Schettino on the rocks, Sunken not stirred please. ...and with everything on the side." For that special evening on an Italian cruise.... this goes with that drink:
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