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Originally posted by occrider Au contraire ... Alcohol 'helps you lose weight' August 4, 2003 FOR years dieters have been told alcohol is one of the first things they should cut out if they want to lose weight. But research by a Melbourne team has turned that advice on its head. It found having up to four drinks a day for men and two for women may help melt the kilograms. John Dixon, a senior research fellow at Monash University and the Alfred hospital, and colleagues based their findings on observations of severely obese patients who had bariatric, or weight-loss, surgery. Dr Dixon said histories of the patients' alcohol consumption before and after surgery confirmed previous evidence light to moderate drinking had beneficial effects on cholesterol levels. But the team also found something that has begun to emerge over the past eight years: moderate drinkers seem to have a reduced risk of developing type 2, or adult onset diabetes. This was probably related to the effect alcohol had on improving insulin sensitivity, which appeared to aid weight loss as well as protect against diabetes, he said. "Most weight-loss programs have found diabetics have problems losing weight," Dr Dixon said. "After surgery, those who were drinking small amounts of alcohol were losing weight." The report, to be published in the journal Australian Family Physician, advises doctors they should no longer tell obese patients trying to lose weight to give up having a glass or two of wine with dinner. He said wine had a relatively low kilojoule content and tended to be burned immediately rather than being stored as fat. The problem with drinking and weight gain was mainly because of associated snacking or loss of inhibition leading to over-eating, Dr Dixon said. The results did not mean teetotallers should drink to become slim. Herald Sun IS THERE ANYTHING ALCOHOL CAN'T DO???? World's best drug EVER!! Where's orbax with me on this one? I'm signing us up for this: http://www.msnbc.com/news/947292.asp?vts=080220031850

that's cool. i have heard of teh benefits of red wine. i hav to wonder how biased taht study was though. but beer is bad in that it does slow down your metabolism. i still maintain that excessive drinking makes you fat, based on experience.

the freshman 15 thing is sorta true. basically from my experience this is how it works. coming up to college people party more then they ever had before and eat more fast food or junk food then before. the result is then a weight gain for a lot of people. if you workout a lot you don't need to worry that much, but really the effect is quite visible in the people around you. just picture the good looking girl in the room next to you...so popular...so bitchy...she will be putting on the weight from all that beer she's been drinking.

new study shows: junk food makes you gain weight

also in this issue: incredible findings!
teen pregnancy rate drops off after age 25 and 100% of all divorces have been preceded by a marriage

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Originally posted by whiskers new study shows: junk food makes you gain weight also in this issue: incredible findings! teen pregnancy rate drops off after age 25 and 100% of all divorces have been preceded by a marriage

after 25

keyword search drinking and read my post on the benefits of alcohol if youre curious

I'd watch out for dorm food. Its high in carbs (very easy to make a lot of), and a lot of high school students don't have that amount of carbs in their diet. Un burned carbs lead to fat. I gained like 10 pounds (I AM a guy tho), but I started working out and I avoided the dorm food, and I'm thinner than I was before I went to school. *shrug*

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Originally posted by occrider I'm signing us up for this: http://www.msnbc.com/news/947292.asp?vts=080220031850

SWEET!
http://www.usbdt.com/


edit:
Why dont we make an official TA beer drinking team chapter for the USBDT?

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Last edited by Izzy on Aug-05-2003 at 17:39

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Originally posted by butterfly after 25

beats me, i didn't get it off the top of my head, somebody else told me

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I should be Co-Captain. The captain has to worry about adminstrative details and what not. Ill be the NCO kind of keep-it-together guy the rallies the troops and gets the serious drink on.

Lets do this





(the pic is actually high rez but DP turns them to shit)

My recipe for prevention/loss of the frosh 15:

1 dose of your local fav dj every fri/sat night
1 dose of Tiesto every other month
1 dose of PVD every other month

dance all night or until sweaty (men) or 'glowing' (women)

drugs optional.


cheers

ps don't eat mcdonalds it's fucking trash