The Disclaimer Alcohol and breastfeeding is not a common topic in meetings or anywhere else that I know of. Alcohol and breastfeeding is important to a very specific group of people and it is really only important to them when they are breastfeeding. I was able to dig up the following on alcohol and breastfeeding. […]
Pavlovian Alcohol and Drug Abuse Associations Addiction and alcohol dependency is an associative and memory disorder which has afflicted humankind for many thousands of years. The ancient Sumerians were getting intoxicated on opium centuries before Christ was born and Native Americans regularly consumed good sized quantities of peyote long before the Americas were even dreamt […]
Overripe Fruit – Alcohol Fermentation – The Elixer/Destroyer of Lives Alcohol fermentation is natures way of producing alcohol. By itself, nature cannot produce alcohol stronger than 14 percent. Fermentation is a natural process that occurs when yeast combines with the sugar in plants and produces an enzyme that then produces alcohol. So it is possible […]
Alcohol distillation begins with a fermented product. Distillation is the process of separating the alcohol from the other water or juice of the fermented product. This is done by boiling the wine or beer or mead. Because alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water it steams off first. This steam is caught in a […]
Alcohol Facts from the United States Alcohol Use in the United States: Prevalence of Drinking: In 2013, 86.8 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.4 percent reported that they drank in the past month.1 […]