New Study Suggest Alcohol Consumption Correlates with GPA Student Performance

Kristina Bell- Daily Beast

A study presented this week found that, next to time spent studying outside the classroom, time spent drinking was the most reliable predictor of a student’s grade point average. Todd Wyatt, a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, looked at how today’s busy college students allocate their time between different activities. The research surveyed about 13,900 incoming freshman at 167 schools, and found that certain activities could reliably predict academic success.

Wyatt found that, after time spent studying, the amount of time a student spent drinking was the strongest predictor of that student’s GPA – even more so than time spent in the classroom.

 But the researchers did see some differences when drinking was complemented by other activities. For instance, students who drank but also volunteered or did some other kind of extracurricular activity showed fewer negative consequences like skipping class, blowing off work, or failing assignments than classmates who spent time drinking but didn’t participate in other outside activities.

Study: Oral Sex is ‘Bigger Cause of Throat Cancer than Tobacco’

Daily Mail- UK

• The main cause of throat cancer for adults under 50 is now HPV (The Human Papilloma Virus)... surpassing both smoking and drinking.
• HPV is best known as the cause of around 70 per cent of cervical cancers. It can also cause warts, verrucas and other cancers.
•  According to Experts, Someone infected with HPV 16 - the strain linked to oral cancer- has a 14 fold increase in risk for getting oropharynx cancer...
• ...Most STRONGLY linked to oral HPV infection is the number of sexual partners someone has had in their lifetimes, in particular the number of individuals on whom they have performed oral sex. 
  
• In Britain the incidence of throat cancer is rising sharply while in the US the incidence of oral cancers linked to HPV have doubled in the last 20 years.