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Red Wine Drinkers Report Feeling Sexy, But Also Just Want To Sleep
Drinking red wine may elicit conflict- ing responses of feeling both sexy and tired, a new study suggests.
A quarter of red wine drinkers (25 per cent) report feeling sexy after a tipple. But the bev- erage also appears to make three in five con- sumers (60 per cent) feel tired.
The findings come from a large new study which dis- covered that differ- ent types of alco- hol elicit different emotional respons- es.
The research, pub- lished in the jour- nal BMJ Open, also suggests loutish drunken behaviour may be linked to the type of alcohol a person has consumed.
After examining anonymised responses to the world’s largest online survey of legal and illicit drug and alcohol use among adults, researchers found that drinking spirits such as vodka, gin or rum appeared to be more com-
monly associated with aggression than other drinks, 30 per cent of spir- it drinkers report- ing feeling aggres- sive after drinking spirits.
This compared to about 2.5 per cent of red or white wine drinkers and 7 per cent of beer drinkers reporting feelings of aggres- sion.
Spirits were also the type of alcohol most likely to bring on tearfulness among drinkers when compared to red wine, white wine and beer drinking, according
to data from the Global Drug Survey, an online questionnaire pro- vided in 11 lan- guages.
Red wine drinkers reported the high- est level of feel- ings of tiredness, according to the data from almost 30,000 people from 21 different countries.
Meanwhile, spirits appeared to make drinkers feel more “energised” than other drinks, with more than half of drinkers reporting energy boosts.
And 59 per cent of
spirit drinkers reported feelings of confidence com- pared to 45 per cent of beer drinkers and just over a quarter of wine drinkers.
Red wine and beer appeared to make drinkers feel most relaxed, with around half of drinkers reporting this emotion, according to the poll of 18 to 34- year-olds who had drunk each of the specified types of alcohol within the past year.
The researchers from Public Health Wales and
King’s College London also found that spirits were also associated with the highest levels of feeling sexy, with four in 10 saying that spir- its made them feel this way.
This compares to around a quarter of red or white wine drinkers and 19 per cent of beer drinkers.
The authors con- clude: “Understanding emotions associat- ed with alcohol consumption is imperative to addressing alcohol misuse, providing insight into what
emotions influence drink choice between different groups in the pop- ulation.”
Co-author Professor Mark Bellis, who is also Public Health Wales’ director of policy, research and international development, added: “For cen- turies, the history of rum, gin, vodka and other spirits has been laced with violence. This global study sug- gests even today consuming spirits is more likely to result in feelings of aggression than other drinks.”
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