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...oldest hangover remedy is to simply keep drinking. The "hair of the dog" method of self-medication has been around since alcohol was invented, although the canine-related term is actually British (it refers to an old folk remedy for a rabid dog bite). Dean Martin recommended it. So did Ernest Hemingway - but then again, he had issues...
...think breast feeding pictures compare to other content on Facebook? Even among my acquaintances, there are pictures posted from parties they went to where people are under the influence of alcohol and wearing little or no clothing. I've seen other groups where there are offensive topics about women. Breast-feeding has nothing to do with sex and I just get so confused [as to] why people make such a big fuss about it. We're just using our breasts for what they evolved...
Marlatt is currently conducting studies of the latest version of his behavior-modification techniques - which he collectively calls "mindfulness-based relapse prevention" - in comparison with typical addiction treatment. His research, on alcohol and other drug abuse, isn't completed yet, but he says, "We're getting very positive results...
...Given that only "frigid, highly religious" students avoided Cambridge's vices, Bristed endeavored to engage with his peers in sin. In one humorous passage he explains how he created the illusion that he enjoyed the incessant flow of alcohol as much as his classmates did: "The colored glass enabled me to fill and empty, in appearance, many times, while in reality I only poured out and tasted a few drops." (See pictures of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race...
...that contribute to sleep, and then drawing scientifically sound connections between them and the host of things that can trigger heart disease, would be difficult at best. So the Chicago team isolated the most common confounding variables that could explain both poor sleep and heart problems, such as smoking, alcohol, and other medical conditions, and also found a way to record, as accurately as possible, the amount of sleep that the subjects got each night. Each volunteer wore a wrist monitor that measured and recorded activity at 30 second intervals; when the monitor was quiet, the subject was asleep...