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"If we want to help women, we can not continue to use models based on men" - said the researcher who led this experiment, and the results completely prove it


This thing makes women drink more alcohol than men.

Can you guess what it is?

"If we want to help women, we can not continue to use models based on men" - said the researcher who led this experiment, and its results illustrate exactly why it is so important

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19/12/2021

Sunday, 19 December 2021, 07:00 Updated: 08:43

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An occasional drink can be very nice, and for the most part it is not a cause for health concern.

But excessive alcohol consumption is a risk factor for many diseases and serious health conditions.

Therefore, it is important to understand the factors, or triggers, that lead different people to such excessive consumption.

For, without addressing the root of the problem, it will be difficult to change consumption habits.



Now, a new study sheds light on one of these triggers, and the significance it has for half of the population.

Stress, the researchers found, is a much more significant trigger for women in the context of excessive alcohol consumption, than for men.

In a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arizona and published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, they examined the chances that ordering a soft drink after a stressful day would cause participants in the experiment to continue from there to order alcoholic beverages.

They found that in women this transition is much more common than in men.

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Men in general are more likely to develop a drinking problem than women, but researchers say the gender gap is narrowing, and women are more likely to develop diseases due to excessive alcohol consumption.

"Some people can when they want to drink an alcoholic beverage or two and stop, while there are people who will just keep drinking and not stop," Dr. Julie Patok-Peckham, a researcher at the University of Arizona, said in a press release.

For women, stress is a trigger enough, they do not need another push.

Cocktail on a bar (Photo: ShutterStock)

"The impairment of alcohol control is one of the early markers of alcohol-related disorders, and we know that stress contributes to both impaired alcohol control and regulation. And this area of ​​the effect of stress on the ability to control the amount of alcohol we drink is not well researched. Women, "the researcher added.

Know when to stop

During the experiment, the researchers invited 105 men and 105 women to their lab, which they designed to look like a bar - there were bar stools, a real bartender and a general relaxed bar atmosphere. The researchers classified the participants into two groups - those who had a stress-saturated day, and those who had a calm day. Half of the subjects were served a drink containing the equivalent amount of alcohol for 3 cocktails, while the other half were served 3 soft drinks. Afterwards, all trial participants were given free access to the bar and could order any alcoholic beverage they wanted for 90 minutes.



"We know that both heredity and the environment have an effect on excessive drinking. As for genes, we have nothing to do. But in the environment we can intervene," explained Dr. Patuk-Peckham. "That stress is something we can influence, we wanted to examine whether certain stressors have led to a disruption in the regulation of alcohol consumption."

We can not change genetics, but our environment can.

Woman with headphones and glass of wine in hand (Photo: ShutterStock)

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At the end of the 90 minutes, participants underwent an owl test to assess the amount of alcohol they consumed.

Their findings showed that exposure to stress led to higher alcohol consumption in all trial participants.

In men who experienced it, however, a more significant difference was observed in the manner of alcohol consumption between those who started the experiment with an alcoholic beverage (drank more) and those who started it with a soft drink (drank less).

While women who experienced a stressful day drank more alcohol whether their first drink was alcoholic or not.



"Our finding that women have enough stress to drink more, but for that to happen to men they need this initial boost of the first alcoholic beverage - is exactly why studies of this kind are so important," Dr. Patok-Peckham stressed. "Alcohol is not the same for women and men, and we can not continue to use men-based models if we want to help women."

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