I am a Bear of Very Little Brain (or What's REALLY in that Hunny Pot?) Drinking Shrinks The brain

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Damn! This takes all the Funny outta Hunny!


Alcohol Consumption Shrinks Brain
By: Psych Central News Editor
on Thursday, May, 3, 2007

A study presented this week in Boston suggests that the greater a person’s alcohol consumption over time, the more the brain shrinks in size.

Carol Ann Paul, a postgraduate researcher from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, who conducted the study, said yesterday “Research has shown that there is a beneficial effect of alcohol in reducing incidence of cardiovascular disease in people who consume low to moderate amounts of alcohol. However, this study found that greater alcohol consumption was negatively correlated with brain volume.”

Researchers in the study looked at the MRI brain scans of 1,839 people ages 34 to 88. Based upon self-report, the research subjects were classified as non-drinkers, former drinkers, low drinkers (those who drank one to seven drinks per week), moderate drinkers (eight to 14 drinks per week), or high drinkers (more than 14 drinks per week).

Excessive drinking appears to accelerate the natural reduction in brain size caused by aging. The researchers found that the more alcohol people drank on a regular basis, the smaller their brain volume. People who had more than 14 drinks per week had an average 1.6 percent reduction in brain volume compared with people who never drank, especially among older women.

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http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/05/03/alcohol-consumption-shrinks-brain/

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1. I understand that Bush did alot of drinking

when he was young and foolish.

Now if you put his brain on the edge of a razor blade, it's like a BB rolling down a four lane highway.