Sialosis, rather than sialadenosis, has been recommended by the World Health Organization as the correct diagnostic term for a unique form of salivary gland swelling characterized by persistent painless bilateral parotid swellings with the occasional involvement of the submandibular salivary gland. Sialosis is known to occur in a variety of conditions including alcoholism, diabetes, malnutritio...

The fermentation of sugars to alcohol is used for a number of different applications, most notably the production of alcoholic beverages. The beer and wine industry ferment extracts of barley and grapes respectively to produce numerous alcoholic beverages, while distilleries further concentrate ethanol using the evaporation and condensation differences of ethanol and water. Ethanol can be bioch...

OBJECTIVES The preference for a specific alcoholic beverage may be related to an individual's overall lifestyle and health. The objective was to investigate associations between alcoholic beverage preference and several cardiometabolic and lifestyle factors, including adiposity, cholesterol, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), liver enzymes and dietary patterns. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETT...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Acidic foods and drinks can erode composite resins. Silorane-based composite is a new low shrinkage composite with higher hydrophobicity which might resist the erosive effect of beverages. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine the effects of 100% orange juice and non-alcoholic carbonated beer on microhardness of a silorane-based composite in comparison with t...

Beer consumption by nursing women altered the sensory qualities of their milk and the behavior of their infants during breast-feeding in the short term. The infants consumed significantly less milk during the 4-hr testing sessions in which their mothers drank alcoholic beer compared to when the mothers drank nonalcoholic beer; this decrease in milk intake was not due to a decrease in the number...

Since ancient times, people have attributed a variety of health benefits to moderate consumption of fermented beverages such as wine and beer, often without any scientific basis. There is evidence that excessive or binge alcohol consumption is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as with work related and traffic accidents. On the contrary, at the moment, several epidemiolo...

The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol. Pure ethanol in low concentrations (< 5% vol/vol) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one. Pure ethanol given by any route ...

Starting around 1996, Russia witnessed a strong growth in beer consumption, leading to a fivefold growth in average beer consumption and making beer the most important alcoholic drink today. We use survey data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to analyze individual determinants of beer drinking. Using both lagged and simultaneous measures to establish lower and upper bounds...