VEN 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blood Alcohol Content, Standard Drink, Alcoholic Drink
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Properties of wine: historical perspective, mysterious production, blood-colored liquid, medicinal solvent, most concentrated form of alcohol known, until distillation discovered by arabs in ~1100 (1300 in europe) The resins were believed to have their own health benefits, but also acted as a wine preservative. Historical trends: wine or other alcohol consumed in dilute form primary beverage until ~1650 (coffee; tea, moderate wine consumption recommended for health (safety, heavy use discouraged (in general, wine used as medicine & medium for other medicines. Antimicrobial effects: ethanol produced by yeast is toxic to other microbes that compete for sugar in fruit juice, until the rise of modern sanitation, wine, beer, other fermented beverages were safer to drink than water. If alcohol will be burned first and the calories from other sources will be stored: this results in weight gain. Spirits: 1 standard drink 80 calories, 2 drinks per day (cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:882)(cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882)
