Dispensary Corner 30 Oct 13
October 30, 2013
Not quite what you’d call a diet food - but certainly a way to get drunk and fat at the same time. An American company is claiming a world first after launching alcoholic beer-flavoured ice cream (pictured). The so-called ‘Frozen Pints’ product range comes in seven different flavours, all based on different types of boutique beers and the strongest one - called Pumpkin Ale - has an alcohol content of 3.2%, about the same as that of a light beer. You have to be over 21 to buy the product - and it’s pretty hard to get inebriated on it. “One pint of Frozen Pints ice cream is equal to one pint of beer - so you would have to eat a lot of ice cream to get drunk,” the New York-based company said.
You always knew it was true, but
now it’s been scientifically proven.
Researchers in the UK have
shown that women really are
better at multitasking, according
to a study reported in the BMC
Psychology journal.
They studied 120 men and
120 women who undertook a
computer test involving switching
between tasks.
When the questions were
tackled one at a time both
genders came up equal, but when
they were mixed up there was a
clear difference, with more errors
and slower responses.
Both men and women showed
an impact, but women took 69%
longer to answer, compared to
77% of the male subjects.
“This difference may seem
small, but it adds up over a
working day or week,” said study
leader Gijsbert Stoet from the
University of Glasgow.
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