Don’t be stupid! Seriously…
In the podcast Drink Now, Pay Later, Karen Hopkins reports that if you start drinking too early, lets say as a teen, it will set you up for a lifetime of bad choices. The study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists studied the effects of alcohol on teenage rats. The results showed that the rats that were pre-exposed to alcohol were more likely to eat food associated with high risk instead of an easy, non risk, meal.
I thought the article was rather ironic. I knew that alcohol made you make bad choices while under the influence, but I think it’s hilarious that it will make you do stupid things in the future as well. One more reason to wait for 21.
