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Nutritional Info for Your Favorite Irish Beers!

Image Source Thinking about splurging on this famous drinking day? Well, unless you have the luck of the Irish on your side today, chances are you're going to pack on a few hundred calories by drinking your favorite…
Alcohol Detox - How I Survived

Image Source Everyone on Earth at sometime or another has had some bad times and has had stress in their lives. Some of us can handle these bad times, and then there are the ones, including myself, who turn to a diff…
Advice: Are "Wheat" Beers Healthier than Original Beers?

Image Source This comes from our Advice column!From MsEnergyDrink: "This may be a ridiculous question, but I had to ask! Are "wheat" beers healthier than regular (or light) beers? I know that a lot of companies (like…
Is Beer Our Last Hope In Fighting Cancer?

Image Source Perhaps so. Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center have identified a chemical present in hops that has been shown to prevent both breast and prostate cancers - the most frequent cancers in w…
Alcoholism is a Large Part of My Life

Image Source Since my father is an alcoholic, and I've spent the past eighteen years of my life living with him, alcoholism is a very large part of my everyday life. While doing an assignment for one of my classes, I…
Which Would You Ban: Weed or Alcohol?

Image Source I sent this to Healthkicker because I kind of want people to look at it from a pretty strictly physical perspective in terms of how each affects the human body, not from personal biases.If you were to becom…
Alcohol Detox: Keep Your New Years Resolution

source It’s a common New Year’s resolution: “I’m going to quit drinking.” It is actually the 4th most common resolution, coming in after “lose weight”, “quit smoking” and “start a savings account.” Why do so many people…
Study: Beer Has More Benefits Than Red Wine

source Good news for those of us who enjoy a good brew. According to this study conducted by Dr. Norman Kaplan of Univ. Texas Southwestern, beer appears to have even more health benefits than red wine. Beer is act…
Organic Wine?

Today, I dumped about half a bottle of red wine down the sink. I am a big wine drinker thanks to my parents, and now that I am living in my own apartment, which happens to be across the street from a Wine and Spiri…
Being Safe on New Years Eve

source Although we all like to party and let loose on New Year's Eve, there are always ways to be safe when enjoying the last night of the year - and in this case, the decade!Here are a few tips to follow when enjoying…