For many decades traditional alcohol congener analysis has provided the concentrations of fermentation by-product congeners found in blood, to ascertain if the claims of an individual regarding the alcoholic beverage(s) they have consumed were feasible, assisting in cases where after-drinking is involved. However, this technique does not provide information on the exact alcoholic beverage(s) co...

INTRODUCTION A large body of literature has substantiated the relationship between alcohol use and violent behaviors, but little consideration has been given to implicit interactions between the two. This study examines the implicit attitudes associated with alcoholic drinks and violent behaviors, and their relationship to explicit reports of problematic behaviors associated with alcohol use. ...

Though much has been written about the alcohol beverages industry, little has been said about its internationalisation. This article attempts to analyse the impact of multinational enterprises (hereafter MNEs) on the availability and consumption of alcohol in the world economy in the context of the evolution of the alcoholic beverages industry since the beginning of the 1960s. 2It also gives sp...

Alcoholic beverages have a proven impact on neuronal Introduction: development and other areas of the body, primarily the heart, kidneys and liver, which is why their consumption in children is prohibited. However, there are traditional drinks that may have alcohol content. The aim of this study was to characterize the consumption of traditional alcoholic beverages in children of a rural villag...

Mounting epidemiological evidence indicates an association between the moderate ingestion of alcoholic beverages and higher bone mineral density (v. abstainers). More limited findings provide some evidence for translation of this association into reduced fracture risk, but further studies are required. Here, these data are reviewed and caveats in their assimilation, comparison and interpretatio...

Marketing and advertising for alcoholic beverages is abundant throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Despite the fact that alcohol advertising is related to earlier initiation of drinking, higher rates of consumption, and positive expectancies among youth populations, alcohol companies continue to design new products and related campaigns with youth-friendly attributes. Alcopop...

The fermentation of sugars to alcohol is used for a number of different applications, most notably the production of alcoholic beverages. The beer and wine industry ferment extracts of barley and grapes respectively to produce numerous alcoholic beverages, while distilleries further concentrate ethanol using the evaporation and condensation differences of ethanol and water. Ethanol can be bioch...

Besides biochemical parameters such as increased aspartate aminotransferase (GOT), alanine aminotransferase (GPT) and especially gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT)-values, high blood-methanol levels indicate chronic abuse of alcoholic beverages. The paper will discuss the reliability of these markers. Several blood samples of male chronic alcoholics admitted alcoholized to a withdrawal clinic were...

341 Alcohol research is carried out from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives. From an economic perspective, alcoholic beverages are consumer goods, and therefore what is known about consumer behavior in general is likely to provide insights into alcohol consumption in particular. Perhaps the most basic prediction from the economic model of consumer behavior is that, other thi...

This paper explores the relationship between church attendance (religiosity) and reasons for not drinking alcohol among undergraduate college student in historically black university. The data for this study was based on a selfadministered survey of 188 student volunteers from various classes from a 4-year historically black university in Southwest Georgia. The findings indicate that church att...