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If you do one thing this week . . . slow down with a straight glass

IF YOU tend to sink your beer quickly, you might be interested in new findings that suggest choosing a straight glass, rather than a curved one, could slow you down.

The study, carried out at the University of Bristol, observed how 159 participants drank chilled lager or carbonated soft drink from straight-sided or curved glasses at their own pace. And what they found was that the participants tended to consume alcoholic drink (but not soft drink) more slowly from the straight glass if the glass was full to start with.

“Our data indicates that total drinking time is slowed by almost 60 per cent when an alcoholic beverage is presented in a straight glass compared with a curved glass,” write the study authors in the open-access journal PLOS One.