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Light drinking may protect brain function:
UGA study shows that for older people it could help cognitive condition
[...] The study examined the link between alcohol consumption and changes in cognitive function over time among middle-aged and older adults in the U.S.
[...] Compared to nondrinkers, they found that those who had a drink or two a day tended to perform better on cognitive tests over time.
Even when other important factors known to impact cognition such as age, smoking or education level were controlled for, they saw a pattern of light drinking associated with high cognitive trajectories.
The optimal amount of drinks per week was between 10 and 14 drinks. But that doesn't mean those who drink less should start indulging more, says Zhang.
"It is hard to say this effect is causal," he said. "So, if some people don't drink alcoholic beverages, this study does not encourage them to drink to prevent cognitive function decline."
Journal Reference:
Ruiyuan Zhang, Luqi Shen, Toni Miles, et al. Association of Low to Moderate Alcohol Drinking With Cognitive Functions in US Adults [open], JAMA Network Open (DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.7922)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @11:40PM (8 children)
Look at some footage of Iran in the70s. They were chevy-driving, bikini-clad-sun-tanning, Aryan hedonists.
Iranians are different from desert dwelling Saudi Arabs. For that matter, Iraqis, their Arab neighbors to the west, are/were quite different from the desert dwelling Saudis.
And then there are the Lebanese - they think they are Europeans, and they are not wrong.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @11:46PM
Arabs own the magic rock so the other muzzies have to put up with them, even though they give the religion a bad name. If all Muslims were Iranian the world would be a much better place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @11:53PM (5 children)
Yeah, Persians I know are more Rita Panahi than Ali Khamenei, however, when we look at pictures from the '70s and see a forward looking society we overlook that the religious loons were demographically significant to have instituted and held theocratic power for so long.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @11:59PM (1 child)
Pahlevi regime was pretty damn corrupt, and the resistance found its focus thru their version of Islam - sorta "back-to-basics" ideology, given that it's the "West" - i.e., UK/BP/CIA - that overthrew Mossadeq regime.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Friday July 03 2020, @12:32AM
The Pahlavi regime was incredibly corrupt, and vicious which is why it enjoyed almost no public support by the end.
The people who really pushed the Iranian Revolution early on were actually pretty liberal students, but the Ayatollah Khomeini was a leader everyone could get behind, and he purged the movement of the more liberal groups once it was clear the Shah was not coming back, which is a real shame.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @04:16AM (2 children)
You need better friends. :)
Alt-right Liberal-apologist ambulance chasing Trumpian loony troll in the service of Uncle Rupert.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @04:29PM (1 child)
^ Communist identified. How does it feel to support an authoritarian ideology responsible for 100,000,000 deaths and believe you have a right to call other people names?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @11:29PM
The 'Liberal party' of Australia, i.e. the kleptocrats in government. Panahi is nothing more than a socket puppet of Canberra.
I support nobody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @02:18PM
My in-laws are Persian and particularly because they're Zoroastrians rather than Muslims, they really do not like what the Ayatollah has done to the country. My wife regularly suggests that she wants the US to change the regime. I keep reminding her that the Ayatollah is there in large part because the US tried to change the regime there by reinstating the Shah over the ruler that they had chosen, but she still wants us to do it. Personally, I have no reason to believe that us doing it would be any better than in other countries where we've engaged in regime change.
And yeah, back before the revolution, the country was pretty liberal and yes, Persians don't necessarily like Arabs as they're completely different groups of people with different cultural values and beliefs.