Posts Tagged: ‘drinking’

I think The Atlantic had a spy in Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast studio the other week when Molly and I were recording a very special St. Patrick’s Day episode on women and beer (by popular Facebook request!). Mere days after chitchatting about the dearth of women brewing beer, this article pops up on the magazine’s Web site: “Shattering Beer’s Glass Ceiling: The Rise of Women Brewers“.

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A few weeks ago on Stuff Mom Never Told You, Molly and I asked whether women are drinking more. This year’s health report card from the National Women’s Law Center shows that, yes, indeed, we are. The report card gave American women a failing grade for binge drinking, which is defined as pounding five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting. Nationwide, 10.6 percent of women fessed up to binge drinking at least once a month, compared to 7.3 percent in 2007.

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If your weekend plans include re-reading “Black Beauty” while drinking a few bottles of wine, then boy oh boy, do I have some podcast episodes for you. This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, we took on two of the great passions of women — a good horse and a good cocktail.

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In a podcast that should be out in the next couple of weeks, Chuck and I cover Prohibition in the U.S. One of the interesting things we found during our research was that societies that drink can be divided into pretty much two types: wet and dry. Wet societies are typified by Southern European nations like Spain and France, where drinking is extremely common and done mostly in moderation.

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Wait, sorry. Did I say “party”? My bad — I should’ve said “fight,” “argument,” “debate” or any similar synonym. I don’t know that any topic I’ve blogged about has ever attracted as much debate as last week’s post on a British study that found no danger in pregnant women downing one or two alcoholic drinks per week.

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Pregnant women everywhere can knock back a pint without feeling an ounce of guilt, thanks to study findings published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (via Discovery News). Based on long-term research that followed 18,500 children from the moment they exited the womb through their first couple years, it’s perfectly healthy to [...]

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Women might want to think twice about going to their local watering hole to meet men since a study recently published in the journal Alcohol (via Discovery News) found that the old “drunk goggle” effect is more potent for females. Imbibing blurs people’s abilities to detect facial symmetry, which is a cross-cultural beauty marker. For [...]

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I know. Once you’re a couple of shots into an evening, it can be really impossible to imagine that your latest love interest wouldn’t be better off knowing how much you’re dying to get with him or her, and how willing you are to drive over to his or her house that very second to make hot monkey love with them all night long.

Chances are about as high as a stripper’s heels that you’ll be laughed/yelled at and promptly hung up on. After drowning your disappointment and sexual frustration in several additional adult beverages, you’ll eventually hobble home and fall into bed.

The next morning there’s a good chance you’ll wake up with a pounding headache, but it might take a little longer before you start to get that nagging feeling of shame which prompts you to check your call log. With horror, you realize you called your crush, and worse, talked for a whole mysterious five minutes. What did you say? And more importantly, what did he or she say?!

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Red wine is one of life’s simple little pleasures for me and the wife. There’s something about turning a bunch of grapes into a bottle of Pinot Noir or Cabnernet that just knocks me out. I have a couple of friends in the wine industry and I’m always interested in talking shop with them — it’s a fascinating trade (or art form).

Many of you may be in the same boat as me, but some of you may be a little intimidated by the whole wine culture. Sure, there are some snooty snots that will turn up their nose if they realize you aren’t an experienced wine enthusiast, but worry not — we have some great articles on this very Web site that can take the fear out of learning about wine.

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