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After 13 years, women consuming the highest amount of alcohol per day (more than two drinks daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. "We certainly don't want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a...
The association led the team to consider several possible explanations. First, it could be that women who drink more simply substitute alcohol for other sources of calories - in essence adopting a form of the liquid diet. Indeed, when the researchers analyzed the data, it appeared that the women who drank...
Second, there is evidence that alcohol may cause physiologic changes to appetite and metabolism that may drive women to lose weight as they drink more. Women may metabolize alcohol differently from men, using a more inefficient, high-energy process that causes them to burn more of the calories from alcohol...
Both Waxman and Adams have held leadership positions on the Board of Overseers—Waxman currently chairs the board’s social sciences committee and previously led the committee on institutional policy. Adams is presently vice chair of the committee on schools, the College, and continuing education. Both...
Pick a dictator, almost any dictator - Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the Shah of Iran, Central African Republic Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa - and they all have this in common: they allegedly stashed their loot in secret, numbered accounts...