BACKGROUND Taxing soft-drinks may reduce their purchase, but assessing the impact on health demands wider consideration on alternative beverage choices. Effects on alcoholic drinks are of particular concern, as many contain similar or greater amounts of sugar than soft-drinks and have additional health harms. Changes in consumption of alcoholic drinks may reinforce or negate the intended effect...

Alcohol is fundamental to the character of wine, yet too much can put a wine off-balance. A wine is regarded to be well balanced if its alcoholic strength, acidity, sweetness, fruitiness and tannin structure complement each other so that no single component dominates on the palate. Balancing a wine's positive fruit flavours with the optimal absolute and relative concentration of alcohol can be ...

In the title compound, C(33)H(34)O(5)S·H(2)O, the mannopyran-oside ring adopts a chair conformation with the 2-α-thio-phenyl group occupying an axial position. One of the pendant benzyl groups is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.5:0.5 ratio. In the crystal, the water mol-ecule makes two O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds to an adjacent sugar mol-ecule with the O atoms of the primary alcohol and ether...

The next 3 pictures are progressively worse indications. They reflect a loss of “electrical charge” of the RBC’s which causes them to stick together. Cells find it more difficult to transfer oxygen to tissues and to circulate freely. CAUSE: Too much cooked animal protein in diet, low digestive capacity, low HCL production and enzyme utilization, dehydration, diet not proper for blood type, cons...