Your health: Drink a glass of wine to be more attractive
Drink a glass of wine to be more attractive
No more, no less.
Want to seem more attractive to the opposite sex? Drink one — exactly one — very large glass of wine, TIME reports.
That's what a recent study by a group of researchers at the University of Bristol's School of Psychology, published in Science Daily, suggests.
The researchers asked 40 heterosexual men and women, divided equally between both genders, to complete an attractiveness-rating exercise. The volunteers were then shown two images of a person, one taken while the subject was sober, one after the subject had consumed 250 mL of wine (equivalent to a very large glass), and one after 500 mL of wine (two-thirds of a bottle) had been consumed.
The photos of those who drank 250 mL wine were rated as more attractive, followed by images of sober subjects. The photos of those who had drank 500 mL were considered least attractive.
The researchers attributed this to the increased facial flushing that comes with consuming low amounts of alcohol, along with additional muscle relaxation and subtle smiles that portray a heightened positive mood.
One more good reason to drink in moderation.
Parents think sugary drinks are healthy
Bamboozled by misleading product marketing and labeling, parents have failed to get the message that sugary drinks — beyond soda — are not healthy for kids.
That's the conclusion of a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at University of Connecticut, published recently in Public Health Nutrition, USA Today reports.
Many parents believe that drinks with high amounts of added sugar — particularly fruit drinks, sports drinks and flavored water — are “healthy” options for kids, according to the report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which focuses on improving health and health care. Never mind that the most recent federal dietary guidelines recommended limiting added sugar to 10 percent of total calories.
“Although many parents know that soda is not good for children, many still believe that sugary drinks are healthy options,” says Jennifer Harris, who wrote the study and is director of marketing initiatives at Rudd Center. “The labeling and marketing for these products imply that they are nutritious, and these misperceptions may explain why so many parents buy them.”
The vast majority of parents give kids sugary drinks regularly. Some 96 percent of parents say they gave sugary drinks to their kids in the month prior to the survey. The most common sugary drinks that parents give kids are fruit drinks — given by 77 percent of parents in the past month, the survey found. Some 80 percent of parents of children age 2 to 5 provided fruit drinks, such as Capri Sun or Sunny D.