Posted on 12/14/2019 10:47:11 AM PST by BenLurkin
"Alcohol is basically pure calories, pure energy, non-nutritive and super toxic at high doses," study co-author Stephen Ilardi, PhD, an associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Kansas, said in a statement. "Sugars are very similar. We're learning when it comes to depression, people who optimize their diet should provide all the nutrients the brain needs and mostly avoid these potential toxins."
This is especially true for those who are prone to seasonal depression, which affects approximately half a million Americans. As with drinking several glasses of wine, eating a box of cookies might provide a temporary feeling of comfort and joy, but can make you feel worse overall if regularly consumed in large quantities.
"When we consume sweets, they act like a drug," Ilardi said. "They have an immediate mood-elevating effect, but in high doses they can also have a paradoxical, pernicious longer-term consequence of making mood worse, reducing well-being, elevating inflammation and causing weight gain."
Ilardi also said that a "large subset of people with depression have high levels of systemic inflammation," and since eating an excessive amount of sugar has been linked to low-grade inflammation, these "inflammatory hormones can directly push the brain into a state of severe depression."
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Right. I remember seeing “The Interview” with Hugo Weaving a while back...excellent.
Same here; it was a part of my every evening. Don’t miss it one iota.
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Congrats. It sure is better..
I don’t drink much...a few vodka tonics in the summer, wine with dinner the rest of the year. That’s enough.
EXCEPT, I really love Portuguese Port wine......A bit before bedtime, sipped slowly...but last night... three bits. Too many calories for sure.
“For heaven’s sake, someone stop me before I drink again.”
https://detectiverobertgoren.blogspot.com/2009/04/stop-me-before-i-kill-again.html
Congrats.
There is no safe level of drinking alcohol.
Ever since I learned that, life became happier.
Sober = Happy :-)
I think I posted this somewhere, but here it is again:
My cardiologist asked me if I smoked. I said no. He asked me if I drank. I said yes. He asked me if I drank socially. I said no. Well he looked at me with his eyebrows raised in question!! I said I take 2 pill supplements before bed, and rather than drinking a few swallows of water, I use red wine— as the resveratol in it is good for the heart. I drink 3 or 4 ounces to wash the pills down, and then I immediately go to bed. So I do drink but it is not sociable as I’m alone. The look on his face was priceless!
Fine redemption sir! Good work.
It’s hard to top Endeavor.
We knew that.
Hard liquor, corn whiskey, is one of the big reasons the US prospered in its early years before grain could be transported in bulk. All a farmer had to do to monetize his corn crop was ferment it and distill it into whiskey, with a HUGE volume reduction, and he could ship and sell the resulting whiskey all over, just as George Washington did with the whiskey he produced at Mt. Vernon in very large volumes. It also, through the alcohol tax, became the Federal Government’s largest source of income.
So let’s all take a drink, in moderation, to that good stuff.
A truly frightful thing, on the order of a Serious War Crime, to do to good, innocent, beer.
As the european monks did with converting the barley and wheat stocks to beer. At the time the grain stocks were driving people mad from the mold present during grain storage. By making beer, the grains could be stored in mass liquid form in wooden barrels. One pint of good Trappest Monk brew = 1/2 a loaf of bread in nutrition.
And upon Washington’s death he willed his businesses to the slaves that had worked them. Huge fish salting business from the shad and sucker runs. Big distillery business. Big vineyard, wine making business. The same wine his troops were rationed each day. A very hearty dry red.
The best I found are: Foyle’s War - nine seasons (available on Amazon prime).
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle’s War takes place far from the glory of the front.
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