In the age of nightclubbing and excessive binging, it’s interesting to see what people’s drinking habits are like.
University students are lucky enough to schedule their workload around going out and, well, just being students; hard-working 9-to-5ers don’t have the luxury of being invited to numerous house parties and designated midweek student nights. And even if they were, it’s a lot harder to motivate yourself to get up at 7am and travel to work in the midst of rush hour with a splitting headache than it is to attend a 10am lecture in which you can comfortably sleep without being noticed.
So, for most of us here at 247Moneybox.com, going out is restricted to the weekend. But with money tight for many of us at the moment, we’d guess quite a lot of people leave that major night out until pay day.
Well, new research has found that some people may not need to wait that long because of their inability to hold their drink, and surely they’ll always save a bit of money when out with the heavier drinkers. Scientists have apparently isolated a ‘lightweight’ gene that provides insight into why some get more merry than their mates do.
A BBC article, reporting on US based research, highlights that while saving you money, this gene actually has a protective effect against alcoholism, as those who have it don’t feel the need to carry on boozing after the first few. It’s all to do with how fast a person breaks down the alcohol in their liver and brain – the faster you do it the quicker you get drunk.
