The Latest Breaking News from Alcohol

Carlsberg toasts soft drinks and alcohol-free sales as beer demand dips

The drinks giant added that effective cost management has also helped position it to reach the upper limit of that target range

The Independent UK · Aug 19

‘Low carb’, ‘gluten-free’, with collagen or electrolytes: is it really possible for alcohol to be healthy?

Premixed drinks are ultra-processed products but their marketing claims create a ‘health halo’ that takes the focus away from the harms of alcohol, researchers say

The Guardian - AU · Aug 18

Tax office cracks down on alcohol distiller tax rorts

A tax incentive to help craft distillers is being rorted, the ATO says, costing the budget millions and blurring the line between legal and illicit spirits.

AAP · Aug 18

Hayden Panettiere Detailed Terrifying Withdrawal Where 'My Whole Body Shook' Prior to Her Death

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died at 36 in South Los Angeles, years after revealing a brutal battle with alcohol addiction and a doctor's warning that she might not survive.

International Business Times UK · Aug 17

Anthony Hopkins shares the horrifying drunken incident that changed his life

The 88-year-old Oscar-winning Welsh actor is preparing for the release of his debut album

The Independent UK · Aug 16

How Gen Z really drinks

Behind the sober-generation stereotype is careful spending and new ways to go out

Salon · Aug 15

Your Pancreas Controls Insulin, Digestion, and Your Diabetes Risk. Here Is How.

A Small Organ Doing Two Very Different JobsThe pancreas sits behind your stomach, about 15 centimetres long, and most people could not point to it on their own body. It runs two entirely separate systems simultaneously. The first is exocrine: it produces digestive enzymes, lipase, amylase, protease, that travel through…

Times Life · Aug 15

6 Daily Habits That Silently Damage Your Pancreas and Raise Your Risk of Diabetes and Inflammation

Eating at irregular hours or skipping breakfastThe pancreas releases digestive enzymes on a schedule tied closely to your eating pattern. When meals arrive unpredictably, a 7 a.m. breakfast one day, nothing until noon the next, the organ keeps producing enzymes that have nothing to digest. Over time, this misfiring stresses…

Times Life · Aug 15

Why Pancreatitis Is Alarmingly Common in India and What Your Diet and Alcohol Habits Have to Do With It

The numbers nobody talks aboutIndia accounts for a disproportionate share of acute pancreatitis cases in Asia, and the burden is growing. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that tropical chronic pancreatitis, a form almost exclusive to South and Southeast Asia, affects an estimated 125…

Times Life · Aug 15

Face of risky drinking 'quietly changing' in Australia

Increasing numbers of midlife women are turning to alcohol to soothe the negative effects of perimenopause but it might be worsening their symptoms.

AAP · Aug 14