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HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?
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Posted on 05/23/2005 12:35:56 PM PDT by rface
.....the most revealing keepsake in this room is a collage of beer coasters, which Howard Dean collected as an exchange student in England. Its a memory of another life. Asked about Deans student hobbies, friend Ralph Dawson, now a Manhattan lawyerDawson offers an amused reply: Well, he drank.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health - A few days of binge drinking can lead to the almost immediate death of brain cells, new research conducted in laboratory animals confirms.
"Very high alcohol consumption, even for a short period of time, damages the brain," study lead author Dr. Fulton T. Crews, professor of pharmacology and director of the center for alcohol studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Reuters Health.
Studies of alcoholics have found that heavy consumption of alcohol can lead to neurodegeneration, death of brain cells and reduced brain tissue mass, and subsequent damaging effects such as a lack of impulse control and difficulty in setting goals.
"It might not just be a one-day celebration," he warned. "Once you've lost these brain cells, they're probably gone forever--how would you ever know?"
SOURCE: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 2002;26:547-557.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; chairmandean; dean
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:35:59 PM PDT
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rface
To: rface
HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?All of them, apparently.
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:37:20 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:38:46 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: rface
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:38:49 PM PDT
by
The_Victor
(Doh!... stupid tagline)
To: rface
More important, however, is the question - Did he ever engage in Bartender-shopping?
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:39:56 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(I have learned to deal with change. Any possibility of letting me try some currency?)
To: rface
Enough for beer goggles, apparently.
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:41:00 PM PDT
by
RushCrush
(Never give in. Never, never, never, never!)
To: rface
None, but he's deeply in debt now, cell-wise.
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:41:33 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: RushCrush
Ding ding ding!!
No more calls, we gots a winnah!
To: rface
I think some prosecutor should seize his medical records and make them public so we can find out if he still has some brain cells working.
To: rface
My comment to Mr. Dean is, "When did you stop being a drunk? You're still acting like one."
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:42:08 PM PDT
by
zerosix
To: rface
Dude! I am
so wasted!
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:42:52 PM PDT
by
evets
(God bless President Bush and VP Cheney)
To: rface
In order to lose brain cells, you must first have them.
To: rface
A double-edged sword. I wouldn't go that road.
To: rface
A double-edged sword. I wouldn't go that road.
To: rface
To: RushCrush
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:45:32 PM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Volunteer your computer to help researchers find a cure. www.grid.org)
To: proxy_user
A double-posted sword, at the very least.
To: rface
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:46:19 PM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(I just got my free credit report....cost me $69.95......I'm not paying the bill. I'm doomed!!)
To: rface
HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?Only the weak ones.
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:46:25 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: rface
Had to be a lot of cells. He's a medical doctor. yet is incapable of intelligently discussing, medically, scientifically, what happens in a partial birth abortion.
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:46:44 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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