2 h. ago Chimps consume a pint of lager’s worth of alcohol every day in fruit, scientists find

Wild chimpanzees in Africa are consuming 14 grams of ethanol each day

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17 h. ago Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per daySomeone have a word with the chimps? Observations of the apes in the wild show them imbibing the alcoholic equivalent of a half pint of beer a day through the vast amount of fermented fruit in their diet.Researchers arrived at the first estimates of wild chimp daily alcohol intake after measuring ethanol levels in fallen fruit that the apes gather from the forest floor in Kibale national park in Uganda and in Taï national park in Ivory Coast. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Early Christmas shoppers can bag £516 worth of luxury perfumes for £99

Worth £516, it’s priced at £99 and contains six alcohol-free perfumes and six candles, all housed in a sustainable box.

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2 w. ago Nuneaton businessman skewers vile women who racially abused him on Sky News

Two nasty women – one clutching a pint of lager – were caught on Sky News cameras racially abusing Zahin Gelu, a Muslim restaurant owner, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire

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3 w. ago Price of pies and pints at Premier League games rocket for punters

Premier League teams have been accused of 'pushing fan loyalty' with eye-watering prices, with a pint of lager costing £7.50 for those watching Fulham at Craven Cottage

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last month We should all be eating 30 different plants a week. I can’t even name that many | Zoe Williams

There have been times when I have eaten virtually no fruit or vegetables, but at least five-a-day felt achievable. The new ideal seems impossibleThe first mention of five-a-day, as a fruit and vegetable diet ideal was in California in the late 80s, but didn’t reach the chattering crudité classes until the mid-90s. I once wrote a food diary for a magazine, in which it turned out I’d had one vegetable across the space of a week, when someone in a cafe slipped some spinach under my fried egg. Eating five a day was harder than it looked, particularly if you didn’t like tomatoes and hated fruit. There was a bit of debate around whether potatoes counted (they don’t), whether bananas and avocados were false friends (nobody ever got to the bottom of that) and how much lettuce counted as a portion, given that it is basically air. Later, there was a little consternation at how much influence had been wielded by the fruit and vegetable industry. But the late, much-missed Michael Mosley made th...

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