Sherry-

Right!

Not to mention the unequal distribution of adipose tissue between the sexes.
Since alcohol is water soluble but not fat soluble a man & woman of equal weight
would be unequally impacted.

-Don.

"Ferguson, Sherry" wrote:

> What gives with these titles?  I admit, when I first saw the first one
> (aggression in rats), I thought the APS was American Psychological Society
> but it turns out it's American Physiological Society.  (I still don't
> understand why a physiological society was interested in aggression and now
> I'm questioning the reputability of this society)
>
> But now, they've gone too far:  MEN and WOMEN drinking EQUAL amounts of
> alcohol.
>
> Body size in rats is very sexually dimorphic with males of most strains much
> larger than females.  The text didn't say "equal amounts of alcohol on a
> body weight basis", it just said "equal amounts of alcohol".  With the body
> size difference, an equal amount of alcohol is bound to have a more severe
> effect in female rats than in males!
>
> Sherry Ferguson, Ph.D
> Research Psychologist
> National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA
> 3900 NCTR Road
> Jefferson, AR  72079
>
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