Everywhere, you face cookies, candy, booze, and treats of every kind. While some people whole-heartedly can enjoy all this, many of us waver between wanting to try everything and wanting to resist everything.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green
Greg Allgood will do almost anything to draw attention to the huge number of poor people - more than 1 billion - whose only drinking water is loaded with bacteria and viruses.
Colonel Hector Bravado | Posted 12.03.2009 | Denver
In this week's adventure, Denver food writer and cocktail poetess Denveater shares her sketchbook from a two-week whirlwind of bars, receptions, lounges, afterparties and more bars.
The San Francisco Chronicle | Jon Bonne | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books
Books about drinking are in a curious place this season. Familiar names, familiar concepts. That's not a bad thing. It's a good year to provide solid ...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books
For a writer of memoirs, Mary Karr has had a charmed life. That is, a lot has happened, almost all of it colorful, much of it painful.
Gothamist | [10] | | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
After a recent drunken driving fatality involving an off-duty NYPD detective, the city detectives union is considering changing the schedule that some...
Dana Joy Altman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Style
I couldn't help but notice that there was an awful lot of cocktail drinking going on in Julie & Julia. There's a certain civility to occasionally unwinding and sharing your day over a cocktail.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
They say to start saving when you're young. After my 21st birthday I took this advice and made a commitment to cut down on spending. Unfortunately, beginning to save and turning 21 seem to mix about as well as Bailey's Irish cream and lime juice.
Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Australian police are gearing up for an annual crackdown on motor-racing fans - limiting race-goers to 24 cans of beer a day. The BBC reported that...
reuters.com | Amy Norton | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
Researchers from the University of Michigan found U.S. life expectancy increased by 6 years between 1929 and 1932, from 57 to 63, with the increase oc...
Huffington Post | Michael Macher | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Hangovers happen to the very best of us. We all know the familiar story: the evening starts off innocently enough--you go to a party to unwind after a...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Drinking copious amounts of alcohol in one session scuppers the immune system by knocking out proteins essential for fighting off bacteria and viruses...
wellness.com | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Insti...
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy
While hydration can have both short and long-term health benefits, scientists warn that "no beverages, regardless of what they actually are, should be consumed at either very warm or very cool temperatures."
Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Walk into any supermarket and you will be bombarded with the smarter, better, or life changing water. You walk down the ale and then you don't know what makes sense.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
I chase the adrenaline rush, the dopamine high, that is akin to the buzz I get from smoking an entire cigarette in three puffs after staying away from lung rockets for a year or more.
health.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
To treat a hangover, drink lots of water, get plenty of rest -- and eat your asparagus, researchers say. A new study shows that the amino acids and m...
NBC New York | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
"I never understood why we don't let you drink in the park," Bloomberg told Community Newspaper Groups, a chain of weeklies owned by News Corp., which...
TIME | Ada Calhoun Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
As recently as last month, drinking parents seemed to be all the rage. On the bookshelves: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, Rob...
Bill Sweetland | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago
College presidents now threaten to supplant high school principals as the new national symbol of moral and intellectual bankruptcy, imbecility, and incompetence.
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
Jade Liqueurs is one of the geekiest-yet-coolest endeavors in beverage history. By recreating specific vintage absinthes to the letter, Breaux created a time machine for the taste buds.
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
You don't quite realize just how much entertaining revolves around alcohol, until you stop revolving around alcohol. Here are my top 10 tips for sober entertaining that I've figured out after 10 years of sobriety.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
We here at HuffPost Green are always striving to green our lifestyles, so we thought we would pass along Greenopia's directory of sustainable United ...
prevention.com | Daryl Chen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Can you ever reverse the damage of a past smoking habit or the savage tans you sported into your 30s? Here, what's forgivable, what's regrettable, and...
Chris Kyle | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
For goodness sakes, if my grandfathers could survive World War II, surely I can survive my bachelor party.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living