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First
up is this Plan Your Own Funeral service, which looks great.
For the complete
guide to the death business, there is always the "lively, colourful,
monthly magazine featuring news and mortality figures" that
is the Funeral Service Journal.
This is a well written
piece about the effects alcohol has on your liver.
Alcoholics Anonymous.
Well, you never know.
The Self Scoring Alcohol
Check-up is a pretty good way of determining if you drink too much
(as if you didn't already know!).
Ah, Micronodular cirrhosis
seen along with moderate fatty change. It is also worth noting the
regenerative nodule surrounded by fibrous connective tissue extending
between portal regions.
Compare the above to
a healthy liver. Hmmm.... scaryish - I could do with a drink now...
Wine has recently been suggested to be, in moderation, actually
beneficial to health. A study in 1995 by Morten Gronbaek, published
in the British Medical Journal, found that subjects who consumed
wine daily were much less likely to die from cardiovascular and
cerebrovascular disease. They suggest this may be due to some broad
acting factors in the wine. One compound in red wine, Resveratrol,
is known to lubricate platelets and therefore reduce arterial blocking.
As much as this page is a light hearted missive on alcohol generally,
there are no reasons to condone drinking and driving. This is a
semi-serious tool to estimate your blood alcohol levels depending
on a variety of variables. Most people realise that anything more
than one or two drinks is likely to put them close to the limit
(for the UK, at least) but what about driving the morning after
that big office party, or extended drinking sesh down the local?
The reults are quite surprising... check out the Drink Wheel.
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