Wine Coolers
Wine Coolers: The Uncool Coolers Alcohol is alcohol. Wine coolers taste sweet and syrupy because they are made of fruit juice and sugar. But unlike fruit juice or soft drinks, they also contain enough wine to give them the same amount of alcohol as a can of beer. Wine coolers also have more than double the calories of most light beers. Wine coolers are a product of the 1980s. They were invented by two California businessmen who thought there might be a big market for “an alcoholic soft drink.” In 1985 they sold their business to a large liquor manufacturer for $143 million. Today...
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Alcohol intoxication destroys the liver and affects the brain, causing slurred speech, clumsiness, and delayed reflexes. Severe alcohol poisoning can be fatal. A blood alcohol content of .45% in test animals results in a median lethal dose. This means that .45% is the concentration of blood alcohol that is fatal in 50% of the test subjects. That is about six times the level of ordinary intoxication (0.08%), but vomiting or unconsciousness may occur much sooner in people who have a low tolerance for alcohol. The high tolerance of chronic heavy drinkers may allow some of them to remain...
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