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Scientists believe they have solved one of the enduring
mysteries of the sexes--why men can drink more alcohol than women. Many
believe that women ty (66) get drunk more quickly than
men, even when their smaller size is taken into account, and they are more
likely to suffer liver damage from alcohol ab (67)
. The researchers say the difference is all in the
(68) . They say that men make far (69)
(high) amounts of a protective stomach enzyme that break (70)
alcohol before it hits the blood stream. The result : they don’t get
as tipsy as women on the same number of drinks. "The
(71) (implicate) of this is that when it comes to social
drinking, women should be more careful than men for a g (72)
amount of alcohol when driving or operating equ (73) ", said
Dr. Charles S. Lieber, a co-author of the study and director of the Alcohol
Research and Treatment Center at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical
Center. Among the study’s (74) (find)
: Women absorb about one-third (75) alcohol
into their blood than men do, even when they are of the same size and drink the
same amount. The enzyme, called alcohol dehydrogenase, works
better when people have a f (76) stomach. This explains why
some folks handle their liquor better if they drink after eating.
Alcoholics make less of the protective enzyme than social drinkers
(77) . If people drink on an (78)
stomach, the alcohol passes quickly through the stomach into the
small intestine, where it is ab (79) into the blood-stream.
(80) , when the stomach is full, alcohol stays in the stomach
longer, so the enzyme has more time to work.