{"id":140727,"date":"2023-08-30T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=140727"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:01:20","slug":"drinking-alcohol-doesnt-give-you-beer-goggles-but-it-can-help-if-youre-single-scientists-find-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/lifestyle\/drinking-alcohol-doesnt-give-you-beer-goggles-but-it-can-help-if-youre-single-scientists-find-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking alcohol DOESN&#x27;T give you beer goggles but it can help if you&#x27;re single, scientists find | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRINKING alcohol does not give you beer goggles, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>A US study found boozing does not make people look more attractive, but it does give you \u201cDutch courage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/friends-pub-dublin-ireland-839683180.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Men were 71 per cent more likely to want to interact with people they thought were good-looking after having the equivalent of a bottle of beer, researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Michael Sayette, of Stanford University, said: \u201cThe well-known beer goggles effect of alcohol does sometimes appear in the literature but not as consistently as one might expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NHS recommends Brits don\u2019t drink more than no more than 14 units of alcohol \u2014 the equivalent of six pints of beer \u2014 a week, spread across three days or more.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown drinking alcohol can make you less fussy about who you fancy, but has focused on asking participants to rate pictures of people.<\/p>\n<h2><span>Read more on alcohol<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NINTCHDBPICT000829524653-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Glass of popular alcoholic drink can help men from flopping in bed<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/people-standing-glasses-office-party-826803880.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Fury as health chiefs ban booze at work events as &#8216;no safe level of drinking&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>The latest study, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, looked at people\u2019s actual intentions to see if this was really the case.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers asked 36 men in their 20s about their dating opinions after being given enough alcohol to meet the US driving limit \u2014 0.8 per cent in blood or around 330ml of beer.<\/p>\n<p>They were asked to rate the looks of people they viewed in photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were told that they may be given the opportunity to interact with one of those people in a future experiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Most read in Health<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RB-COMP-HEART-RISK-2.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>HEART TO HEART <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>From eating bananas to ditching caffeine, 10 ways to cut heart attack risk<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/newspress-collage-23691125-1693319772167.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>DEEPLY LOVED BY ALL<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Dad \u2018foams at the mouth\u2019 &amp; 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A US study found boozing does not make people look more attractive, but it does give you \u201cDutch courage\u201d. 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