Posted on 07/24/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An invasive vine called kudzu may help reduce alcohol intake and curb binge drinking, says new research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
The U.S. study of 14 men and women found that those who took capsules of kudzu drank an average of 1.8 beers per session, compared with 3.5 beers per session drunk by those who took a placebo, the Associated Press reported.
Researcher Scott Lukas of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital wasn't sure why kudzu seemed to reduce alcohol intake. It may be because kudzu increases blood alcohol levels and speeds up alcohol's effects, meaning that the people who took kudzu needed fewer drinks to feel drunk, Lukas suggested.
"That rapid infusion of alcohol is satisfying them and taking away their desire for more drinks. That's only a theory. It's the best we've got so far," Lukas told the AP.
As you already know, if an alcoholic takes the first drink there will be hell to pay.
Response: A little self control may help cut alcohol intake!
There aren't enough of us.
Other postings on this from two months ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405447/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404766/posts
Just for a lark, I was reading up on Kudzu.
There are recipes for it.
Used in oriental medicine, apparantly this treatment for alcoholism goes way back.
Said it had the nutritional value of alfalfa.
They're welcome to eat all the kudzu in my back yard.
grows like wild fire all over the south. Won't do them any good to ban it.
But This would be a wonderfull diet for me to get one, the ultimate Man's Man Diet Pill!!!!!!!!!
One way kudzu might help drinkers avoid binge drinking is to plant the vine inside bars. Soon the drinkers would be immobilized by the clinging vines and unable to raise a bottle or glass to their lips.
LOLOL!!
Vine That Ate The South bump!
BTW - You have to have grown up in the south to truely understand how funny this strip is. My brother sends me copies from the Durham paper about once a month.
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I am out in the yard already, but it keeps cutting up my mouth and it is getting stuck in my teeth. Maybe we have to crush it.
I've got a ton of kudzu around here. I've heard that it's a good natural anti-depressant. Seems to work for my goats anyway.
And then apparently stagger, slip off the curb and fall over into the gutter.
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