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Previous studies have found a link between body tattoos or piercings and risky behavior. However, these studies only examined survey data but not real behavior. In a new study published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, French researchers approached people leaving bars and asked if they’d be willing to take a breathalyzer; they also asked if the respondents had tattoos or piercings.
Dr Martin Bobak from University College London and colleagues at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague questioned 891 Czech men and 1,098 women between the ages of 25 and 64 as part of their study, and found that beer drinkers aren’t more likely to have abdominal fat than non-beer drinkers.
Professor Jennifer Wiley of the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered that alcohol may enhance creativity problem solving by reducing the mind’s working memory capacity, which is the ability to concentrate on something in particular.
A 1967 study of over 6,000 participants showed that people who consumed between 1 and 30 alcohol drinks per week had significantly greater cognitive functioning than teetotalers.