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Why are Doctors recommending

DIGGADIGGADIGGADIGGA 456 Posts
edited August 2007 in Strut Central
Why are Doctors recommending to people who drink,not to drink dark liquor only light?

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  • Egbert_SouseEgbert_Souse 920 Posts
    Why are Doctors recommending to people who drink,not to drink dark liquor only light?


    WHAT?
  • DIGGADIGGADIGGADIGGA 456 Posts
    seriously,light meaning color,over dark liquor like hennesy!
  • HonkyFippleHonkyFipple 418 Posts
    Why are Doctors recommending to people who drink,not to drink dark liquor only light?

    cause doctors can be dumb too.


    doctors!!!
    i have a really strange thing going on... my left foot is feeling funny. my periosteum at the heel is itching all the time. it scares me. it's just a small area of my heel, but it's getting worse all the time. so i'm prepared for any diagnosis. i went to several doctors.
    what did they say? nothing! there's nothing they can do for me as long as there is nothing visble to the naked eye!!! isn't than dumb? do they wait until a tumor is growing through my epidermis? what century is this?
    oh wait... i'm freaking out again...
  • DIGGADIGGADIGGADIGGA 456 Posts
    wow!usually a doctor would recommend a Foot Specialist!What i believe is that dark liquors like Hennessy or Jack Daniels can be more harsher on the kidneys then vodkas...has anyone else heard about this?
  • JimBeamJimBeam Seattle. 2,012 Posts
    off of a food/health website:

    However there is also the belief, voiced in a 2000 study of hangover research in the Annals of Internal Medicine, that brown liquors do cause worse hangovers. The reason? Alcohols in the booze other than ethanol, commonly referred to as congeners.

    A distiller tries to isolate the ???good??? alcohol, or ethanol, from the ???impurities,??? including congeners, contained in the soupy fermented material he???s distilling (corn, barley, or rye for whiskey; sugarcane for rum; etc.). These include methanol, or wood alcohol, which can make you go blind if you drink too much of it, and a group of compounds called fusel oils. The distiller will do this by throwing out the first and last parts of what comes out of the still (known as the heads and tails), and in some cases by redistilling the alcohol to strip it further.

    Though all liquor, regardless of whether it???s destined to be cognac, whiskey, or vodka, comes out of the still clear (barrel aging turns it brown but doesn???t add any congeners), distillers making brown liquors usually don???t strip their booze of as many of the impurities as those making a clear spirit. While vodka in particular is supposed to be flavorless, and odorless, brown spirits don???t have to live up to such a standard of purity. Congeners, although they might cause worse hangovers, all produce flavor. And when it comes to brown spirits, that???s a good thing.
    http://www.chow.com/stories/10508
    I've heard several doctors recommend clear (vodka/gin/etc.) over dark. But, um. No.
  • HonkyFippleHonkyFipple 418 Posts
    wow!usually a doctor would recommend a Foot Specialist!



    at least i would expect some doctor to x-ray my foot. it seems to me like something cartilaginous is growing there. and i'm not kidding!!! doctors are weird sometimes.
  • Egbert_SouseEgbert_Souse 920 Posts
    But, um. No.


    seriously.

    from my cold drunk hands.
  • leisurebanditleisurebandit 1,006 Posts
    Why are Doctors recommending to people who drink,not to drink dark liquor only light?

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    This seems like it would only be an issue if you were drinking some bottom shelf shit.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    I had always heard that the darker the liquor, the higher the natural sugar content, the worse the hangover.
  • DIGGADIGGADIGGADIGGA 456 Posts
    off of a food/health website:

    However there is also the belief, voiced in a 2000 study of hangover research in the Annals of Internal Medicine, that brown liquors do cause worse hangovers. The reason? Alcohols in the booze other than ethanol, commonly referred to as congeners.

    A distiller tries to isolate the ???good??? alcohol, or ethanol, from the ???impurities,??? including congeners, contained in the soupy fermented material he???s distilling (corn, barley, or rye for whiskey; sugarcane for rum; etc.). These include methanol, or wood alcohol, which can make you go blind if you drink too much of it, and a group of compounds called fusel oils. The distiller will do this by throwing out the first and last parts of what comes out of the still (known as the heads and tails), and in some cases by redistilling the alcohol to strip it further.

    Though all liquor, regardless of whether it???s destined to be cognac, whiskey, or vodka, comes out of the still clear (barrel aging turns it brown but doesn???t add any congeners), distillers making brown liquors usually don???t strip their booze of as many of the impurities as those making a clear spirit. While vodka in particular is supposed to be flavorless, and odorless, brown spirits don???t have to live up to such a standard of purity. Congeners, although they might cause worse hangovers, all produce flavor. And when it comes to brown spirits, that???s a good thing.
    http://www.chow.com/stories/10508
    I've heard several doctors recommend clear (vodka/gin/etc.) over dark. But, um. No.

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