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Alcohol
Consumption per Capita
Jews have 112 hereditary genetic
diseases nobody else
has
Annual per capita
alcohol consumption in Israel is 2 liters or
.53 gallons
http://www.columbia.edu/~dsh2/Israel%20genetics.htm
Alcohol consumption in Israel has been shown to be very low in numerous studies conducted since the 1970's. However, evidence now suggests that Israel may now be undergoing a period of change in terms of alcohol consumption, with younger adults and recent Russian immigrants drinking more. Elevated prevalence of ADH1B*2, an allele of a gene involved in the metabolism of alcohol in the liver, is elevated among Jewish groups in general, including Jewish Israelis. (Under an earlier nomenclature, the ADH1B*2 allele was known as ADH2*2.) Thus, Israel presents a unique conjunction of environmental and genetic influences on alcohol consumption and dependence symptoms. Findings from this research include: o Ashkenazic Jews in Israel are more likely than Sephardic Jews to report recent drinking (which was relatively common) and getting drunk (which was rare). o Immigrants from the former Soviet Union who arrived in Israel since 1989 are more likely to report recent drinking and getting drunk than other Israelis. o ADH1B*2 is protective against heavy drinking in Israeli Jews. o ADH1B*2 is protective against alcohol dependence symptoms in Israeli Jews. o ADH1B*2, an allele of a gene affecting the metabolism of alcohol in the liver, has an elevated prevalence in Israeli Jews compared to non-Jewish groups with a Nothern-European background, and is higher among Sephardics than Ashkenazis in Israel. o Younger Israelis are more likely than older Israelis to drink heavily and to experience DSM-IV alcohol dependence symptoms.
Topics of current investigation
in this area include the interaction of gene and environmental effects in
the occurrence of heavy drinking and alcohol dependence symptoms. A
population-based study of these issues was funded by the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA)
in 2003.
Alcohol Consumption vs. IQ, Selected Countries
When the country with the highest IQ, Korea at 108, is also the country with the highest per capita consumption of alcohol, and when the 86 nations of Africa with the lowest IQ are also the countries with the lowest per capita consumption of alcohol, the relationship between IQ and alcohol consumption cannot be denied, no matter what the cause. While the following chart doesn’t contain all the data for all the countries, it represents almost half the world population in countries which this author is familiar with. Almost 1 billion blacks of Africa with an average IQ of 75 are those who consume the least alcohol per capita, 6 ounces per year, whereas Bangladesh and India with an IQ of 81 consume about 5 times that, or 30 ounces per capita per year. Moving up the scale, Thailand with an IQ 10 points higher than India, 91, consumes 10 times as much alcohol per capita as Africa, or 64 ounces. Hungary and Australia have an IQ 7-8 points higher than Thailand and consume 16 times as much as Africa, or 100 ounces. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have an IQ 2-4 points higher and consume 20 times as much alcohol as Africa, or about 120 ounces. And finally Korea, with an IQ another 6-7 points higher consumes 25 times as much alcohol as Africa. Is Israeli IQ 78 rather than 94?The one country that doesn’t fit on the curve is Israel, whose 16.8 ounces of alcohol is not consistent with an IQ of 94 as Professor Lynn estimates. Israel fits on the curve perfectly if it really has an IQ of 78 rather than 94. This also does a great deal to explain Israel’s extremely low PISA and TIMSS scores, even in reading, which for a race which claims to have *invented* Hebrew is a shocking revelation.
Is the IQ of Israel 78 Rather than 94?
200
million Americans of drinking age drink 10.15 liters per capita of
pure alcohol per year which is 536 million gallons/year. The 62
million women who drink each consume an average 60% as much as men. 74
million men thus drink an average of 4.82 gallons and 62 million women each
drink an average of 2.9 gallons.
This is
an average of 1.7 ounces per day for men and 1 ounce per day for women,
which is enough alcohol to keep the
bac (blood
alcohol content) of drinkers above .10% every day of the year and above .01%
for 3 to 6 hours every day of the year, which means that drivers who drink
would have a bac > .01% for 20-40% of their waking day.
Scenario II If it's
true that 10% of the population drinks 50% of the alcohol, then this is
still enough to keep the bac of all drinkers above .01% for 3 hours of each
day, and to keep the bac of that 10% of the population above ,01% for up to
14 hours, every day. Thus, 120 million drivers would have a bac > .01%
for 20% of their waking day and 20 million drivers, if they started drinking
at 5 pm and went to bed at midnight, would have a bac > .01 for 45% of their
waking day. Most
alcohol is consumed in restaurants just before someone drives a car.
If drinking is a major cause of accidents, then 77% of all men drivers and
60% of all women drivers will be more likely to have an accident when they
have been drinking than when they haven't been. Even if these drinkers
manage to avoid driving most of the time, it's inevitible that at least half
of them, or 100 million, will have to drive at least once in a while after
they have been drinking. If it is alcohol that causes accidents, then
this is when they will have an accident--not when they have not been
drinking. If alcohol is such a considerable factor in causing
accidents, then it's not necessary to prove that drinking drivers are
over-represented in accidents relative to how often they drive altogether,
because it is precisely when they do drink and drive that they will have an
accident. It's thus
surprising that police reports state that only 4% of all accidents are
"alcohol involved", and that only 1.25% of those accidents involve a driver
with a bac > .10%. At the least, if people who drink are involved in
those accidents when they haven't been drinking, and if they represent more
of the drivers in accidents than teetotallers represent, then it's
inevitible that their sobriety is a
factor in the accident.
Government Studies
The least
reliable statistic is one collected by a government agency to justify its
existence. NHTSA
takes the police reports and gooses up the figures by up to ten times after
it runs it through its "statistical model", enabling the advocacy groups to
proclaim that "ALCOHOL CAUSES HALF OF ALL TRAFFIC FATALITIES". They
also know that they need to under-report the actual percentage of drivers
who drive with a bac < 0%, because if 40% of all drivers at say 8 pm at
night have a bac > 0%, but only 1.25% of all accidents involve those
drivers, then the public will realize that alcohol is
not a factor in
accidents.
Per Encyclopedia Britannica, "77 percent of adult men and 60 percent of
adult women are drinkers. Men, however, as is almost the universal custom,
drink substantially larger amounts, on average, than women. Among
adolescents, about 57 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls are drinkers"
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=118681&tocid=40557#40557.toc
Drinking in the
United States Drinking patterns and attitudes in the United States have been
studied more systematically and completely than those of any other country.
The results indicate there is no pattern or set of attitudes typical of the
nation as a whole; instead, there is a variety of patterns, customs, and
attitudes. American drinking patterns are a conglomerate of customs brought
over by repeated waves of immigrants from different places and of diverse
ethnic stocks, modified over time by intermixture, economic circumstances,
political developments, and the emergence of some indigenous ways.
Nevertheless, certain generalizations are possible. In the post-Prohibition
and post-World War II era, several changes in American drinking practices
and attitudes have been observed and confirmed by formal systematic studies.
The proportion of abstainers has declined, especially among women. In recent
years, approximately 77 percent of adult men and 60 percent of adult women
are drinkers. Men, however, as is almost the universal custom, drink
substantially larger amounts, on average, than women. Among adolescents,
about 57 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls are drinkers; these
percentages rise with age, and the age class 21–29 contains the highest
proportion of drinkers; drinking appears to be associated with separation
from home and with courtship behaviour. As they continue to age, apparently
many Americans become abstainers, perhaps settling down to living as they
were brought up to do by their parents or as they would like to exemplify
for their children. Rural populations, those with fewer years of education,
lower income, more frequent religious attendance, and membership in
fundamentalist Protestant denominations, contain larger proportions of
abstainers. Among drinkers, beer tends to be the preferred beverage of men
and, to a lesser extent, of unskilled and blue-collar workers. Spirits are
preferred by middle- and upper-class drinkers and by women��especially in the
form of mixed drinks, such as cocktails. Repeal of Prohibition was advocated
with the promise of no return of the saloon. Its successors, the bar,
tavern, and cocktail lounge, are a ubiquitous American institution. A good
deal of drinking, however, takes place at home—though not, most commonly,
with meals—and at parties, especially as part of the second indigenous
American drinking way, the cocktail party, now sometimes a substitute for
the vanished frontier drinking style. The popularity of the cocktail party
and, more specifically, the cocktail on coming home from work and before the
evening meal has been attributed to its function as a separator between the
working day and the relaxing evening—a sort of rite of passage, easing the
way from one into the other. Whether or not this is the actual reason, the
cocktail hour has become increasingly adopted in many countries, like other
American customs that are paradoxically sneered at while being assiduously
imitated.
Although, in
general, styles and customs of drinking are influenced by geographic and
ethnic backgrounds, Americans tend to be members of multiple small
societies, and, to some extent, they drink differently within each of these
societies. People from diverse origins may drink alike when joined in some
special association—as fellow collegians, members of a business convention,
comrades in one of the armed services, or guests at a special kind of social
function. Even then, the expected way and amount of drinking is likely to be
at least modified by an individual's background. Even within a situation
where drinking—indeed, drunkenness—is institutionalized (that is, on the
skid rows), patterned differences are discernible to the systematic
observer, giving rise to named classes, such as lushes, bums, winos, and
rubby-dubs (habitual drinkers of non-beverage alcohols, such as rubbing
alcohol and canned heat), and distinct consequences. The fact that most
Americans drink, that drinking rather than abstinence is the norm, does not
prevent the paradoxical existence of ambiguous attitudes about the behaviour
among the drinkers themselves, many of whom express such views as that which
maintains that alcohol, or drinking, is more harmful than beneficent, more
wrong than right. These ambivalences account for the massive array of
regulations on the sale and distribution of alcohol, most of them intended
to interfere with the availability of beverages at certain times, in certain
places, or to certain classes of persons.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/GraphicsGallery/consfigs4text.htm
U.S. total = 2.24 gallons
1.99 or below:
Alabama
2.00–2.24:
California
2.25–2.49:
Arizona
2.50 or over:
Alaska
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/sci_data/surveys/nhis/type_txt/alcohol.asp
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM DATA
APPARENT PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION (PCCONSU)
Apparent Total Alcohol Consumption
for States and U.S., 1987
(Volume and ethanol in thousands of
gallons)
Beer
Wine
Spirits
Total
State
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Vol.
Eth.
Vol.
Eth.
Vol.
Eth.
Eth.
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AL
78,730
3,543 4,571
590
4,803 1,988
6,121
AK
14,041
632
1,605 207
1,208
500
1,339
AZ
98,739
4,443 9,557
1,233
5,546 2,296
7,972
AR
45,262
2,037 1,548
200
2,420 1,002
3,238
CA
662,484
29,812 125,764
16,224
49,516 20,500
66,535
CO
83,022
3,736 8,941
1,153
5,875 2,432
7,322
CT
67,603
3,042 10,596
1,367
7,183 2,974
7,383
DE
16,691
751
1,711
221 1,537
636
1,608
DC
16,926 762
3,987
514
2,971 1,230
2,506
FL
332,631
14,968 32,128
4,145 24,895
10,306
29,419
GA
132,740
5,973 10,166
1,311 11,971
4,956
12,241
HI
29,852
1,343 2,661
343 1,587
657
2,344
ID
21,972
989
2,219
286 1,061
439
1,714
IL
288,792
12,996 27,637
3,565 19,489
8,068
24,629
IN
121,685
5,476
7,624
983 7,150
2,960
9,419
IA
65,507
2,948 3,699
477
3,171 1,313
4,738
KS
48,926
2,202 2,481
320
2,671 1,106
3,628
KY
67,736
3,048 3,155
407
4,297 1,779
5,234
LA
103,346
4,651
6,348
819 6,218
2,574
8,044
ME
26,872
1,209 2,783
359
2,113
875
2,443
MD
105,649
4,754 10,791
1,392
9,534 3,947
10,093
MA
138,965
6,253 19,189
2,475 13,255
5,488
14,216
MI
215,038
9,677 18,944
2,444 15,204
6,294
18,415
MN
98,593
4,437 8,256
1,065
7,689 3,183
8,685
MS
56,609
2,547 1,455
188
3,217 1,332
4,067
MO
123,762
5,569
8,682 1,120
7,164
2,966
9,655
MT
22,017
991
1,624
209 1,178
488
1,688
NE
39,155
1,762 2,162
279
2,011
832
2,873
NV
36,850
1,658 5,292
683
4,118 1,705
4,046
NH
36,631
1,648 3,302
426
4,118 1,705
3,779
NJ
164,728
7,413 26,171
3,376 15,388
6,371
17,159
NM
41,494
1,867 3,128
404
1,863
771
3,042
NY
370,987
16,694 53,585
6,912 31,814
13,171
36,778
NC
127,989
5,760 11,174
1,441
8,965 3,712
10,913
ND
15,635
704
817
105
1,110
460
1,269
OH
258,237
11,621
15,795 2,038
12,292
5,089 18,747
OK
59,591
2,682 2,975
384
3,539 1,465
4,531
OR
61,539
2,769 8,925
1,151
3,814 1,579
5,500
PA
299,912
13,496 15,352
1,980 14,607
6,047
21,524
RI
25,221
1,135 3,242
418
1,858
769
2,322
SC
80,644
3,629 5,699
735
5,791 2,397
6,762
SD
15,215
685
829
107
1,063 440
1,232
TN
101,866
4,584
4,600
593 5,876
2,432
7,610
TX
461,986
20,789 28,992
3,740 19,066
7,893
32,423
UT
21,850
983
1,366
176 1,407
582
1,742
VT
15,229
685
1,970
254 1,055
437
1,376
VA
148,506
6,683
9,497 1,225
8,233
3,408 11,316
WA
99,376
4,472 15,647
2,018
6,978 2,889
9,379
WV
37,683
1,696 1,525
197
1,508
624
2,517
WI
157,474
6,816 10,516
1,357
9,066 3,753
11,926
WY
12,020
541
698
90
780
323
954
U.S. Total
5,768,009 259,560
571,381 73,708
389,243 161,147
494,416
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