alcohol and exercise

January 5, 2011, 12:01 am

Phys Ed: Does Exercising Make You Drink More Alcohol?

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

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Can regular exercise avert or undo some of the harm associated with binge drinking? Perhaps even better, could exercising beforehand pre-emptively reduce your urge to overindulge in alcohol later? Or does exercising actually drive you to drink? Those questions, relevant to any of us whose memories of New Year’s Eve are fuzzy, have been the subject of a growing number of studies recently, with thought-provoking results.

 

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/does-exercising-make-you-drink-more-alcohol/?ref=magazine