{"id":7245,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/alcohol_tolerance\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:47","slug":"alcohol_tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/alcohol_tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to metabolise alcohol &nbsp;(i.e., ethanol) differs across cultures. Some 5-20% of Europeans (e.g., in Denmark) have a genetic variant that metabolizes alcohol much faster than the normal variant, while for the Japanese this figure is around 85%. &nbsp;This difference may account for the finding that both newborns and adults of Mongoloid origin display a greater degree of vasomotor flushing to small quantities of alcohol than do Caucasians of the same age. &nbsp;On the basis of such findings, it has been speculated that, as with lactose tolerance, culturally-based selection pressures concerning the consumption of alcohol have led to genetic differences between Caucasian and Mongoloid populations in autonomic responsively to this beverage. &nbsp;Unlike lactose tolerance, however, the relevance of such population differences in this responsively for behavioral development remains obscure.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cultural_selection\">Cultural selection<\/a>, Lactose tolerance<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to metabolise alcohol &nbsp;(i.e., ethanol) differs across cultures. Some 5-20% of Europeans (e.g., in Denmark) have a genetic variant that metabolizes alcohol much faster than the normal variant, while for the Japanese this figure is around 85%. &nbsp;This difference may account for the finding that both newborns and adults of Mongoloid origin display &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/alcohol_tolerance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alcohol tolerance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}