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STRESS CAN TOTALLY derail a whole diet plan by impairing our self-control, researchers have found.
A challenging meeting or an upset customer could lead you to reach for chocolate or sweets later in the day, a study which appeared in the journal Neuron this week revealed.
Lead author Silvia Maier, of the University of Zurich’s Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research says that the brain is sensitive to upsets.
Self-control abilities are sensitive to perturbations at several points within [the brain], and optimal self-control requires a precise balance of input from multiple brain regions rather than a simple on/off switch.
She emphasised that much work still remains, however, to fully understand the mechanisms involved.
In the study, 29 participants underwent a treatment known to induce moderate stress in the laboratory before they were asked to choose between two food options. An additional 22 participants did not undergo the treatment, which involved being observed and evaluated by the experimenter while immersing a hand in an ice water bath for three minutes, before choosing between the food options.
All of the participants who were selected for the study were making an effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle, so the study presented them with a conflict between eating a very tasty but unhealthy item and one that is healthy but less tasty.
The scientists found that when individuals chose between different food options after having experienced the stressful ice bath treatment, they overweighed food taste attributes and were more likely to choose an unhealthy food compared with people who were not stressed.
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Thanks be te Jaysus they left the crystal meth alone again this year!
A for feck sake, I am going for a pint
You won’t get one for less than €5
Why do people only ever consider Dublin? Seriously cop on.. Plenty of pints for under a fiver elsewhere, in fact I think all are where i’m living
Beerhouse capel st have taken the vat off all drinks today, get on it
Lots of pubs in Dublin you can get a beer for €3.50
@ €3.65 for this beautiful Pint, I can hardly resist another. Dancing at the crossroads, the pubs will be packed tonight.
There’s loads of places in Dublin doing pints for €4.00 and less. Pitchers approx 3 pints+ for a tenner.
Mind that’s pre budget.
As to why reporting on Dublin etc because IFSC
1 The Capital
2 Largest population in the country,
Why don’t they mention Portrane for example?
Pint in enniscrone co sligo €3.80. And it’s a rip off
Sorry
IFSC doesn’t belong in this. Where the hell that came from no idea
I’m off to Newry for the Christmas drink then!
I may as well buy EVERYTHING else while I’m up there.
The Irish pub is now going to take a place in history …….
if they want pubs to stay open they need to sell at a reasonable bloody price,not everyone is made of money like
Great keep destroying the irish pubs !! A pub a day closed last yr alone . Now they’ll hike the car tax again which if any one remembers was only ment to be short term when it came out ! Car business destroyed also ! Retail your next
Can’t believe they’ve gone after the wine again. This is Gewurz thing that could happen :(
Be interesting to see how many pubs add the government 10 cents on and then add another 10 cents for themselves.
Think about it. It’s 10 cent plus vat. So it’s more than 10 cent obviously.
And excise
@matthew The exact text is “The excise duty of a pint of beer or cider, and a standard measure of spirits is being increased by 10 cent (including VAT)..” so from what I can tell it should just be exactly 10 cents.
Anyway, my point was that bars usually take these opportunities to raise their own prices. Anecdotally speaking there was a large price increase last Christmas after the budget by pubs and bars in Dublin city centre especially.
No. It’s 10c increase before the retailer adds their % margin and before 23% VAT so it’ll be more.
The price added does not include vat. Ever.
It’s not – it is 10c incl VAT !
No it’s not. Vat is extra.
from page 11 of the Budget
Alcohol Products Tax
The excise duty of a pint of beer or cider, and a standard measure of spirits is being increased by 10 cent (including VAT); the duty on a 75cl bottle of wine is being increased by 50 cent (including VAT), with effect from midnight on 15 October 2013
http://budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2014/Documents/Budget%202014%20composite.pdf
Does not include reseller vat
stop digging – it does
Again – this for example is from the exact financial resolution on excise increases in the Dail on Budget day last year
“The increases when VAT is included amount to €1 on a standard bottle of wine, 10 cent on a pint of beer, 10 cent on a pint of cider and 10 cent on a standard measure of spirits,”
If you tune in tothe debate tonight you will hear the same tonight – alternatively ring the Excise Commissioners or ask any publican if you don’t believe me !
“does not include reseller vat” lol worst ‘in a hole’ comeback ever.
They didn’t touch the sherry thank God.
Yeah they did. Up 75c in duty which equates to about a euro per bottle after vat and margin is added on.
Disgusting, one of my few enjoyments in life
ah for fook sake The fags and booze get hit,bunch a c#@ts
I know it would have been way better if they’d targeted kids with disabilities again
Tobacco going up – cigarette smuglers must be delighted. They lost out on a projected 150 million in excise over the last 10 months, which they thought they were going to get from last years increase. Looking like there are going to be more barmen joining the dole que.
Out of all The Journal.ie’s stories on the budget, the thread on booze and fags is the most active. We Irish have our priorities right anyway….
Taxing wine by the bottle is regressive, i.e , its more expensive if you’re poor. For example someone who drinks a 5 euro bottle will pay 10% tax whereas the quaffer of a 20 euro bottle will end up paying 2.5% tax. Tax on wine should be charged as a percentage not by the bottle.
Very good point!
The 1 Euro took in 45 million was any jobs lost because of this increase? Seems the Goverment where on to a money making machine with this. Hope no jobs go because of it.
It would have made more sense to target off licence prices and leave pubs alone.
This will only increase in the sale of illegally imported cigarette market.
How about using the money generated by taxes to pay for medication and treatments to get people to stop smoking.
Why not decrease the VAT on Nicorettes and other such products?
Just another way of taking money out of peoples pockets and in this case those that are addicted to that horrible drug.
A smoker who has that horrible addiction would have spent some 173,000 euro over a 50 year period – most of that in taxes.
For all the talk of health, most governments are ambivalent about reducing smoking.
It’s a massive tax earner. And no, improved health as a result of less smoking would not balance out the reduction in tax take if they actually succeeded in reducing smoking. People may live longer but will eventually die of something, so are just a deferred cost to the health service, and while they live will need pensions and housing and other benefits that are a cost to the state.
If you were running a country had no morals at all you’d ideally want people to shoot people the morning of the day they retire. Healthy people who live to be very old are a terrible drain on resources.
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No mention of tobacco though
Are you a moron? CIGARETTES = tobacco .
10 cent increase on a pack of cigarettes from tonight.
sssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . . Be quite and say a few prayers they wont touch it
Steve dont call me a moron, a pouch of tobacco is CERTAINLY not the same as a packet of cigarettes!!
@Steve:
I’m pretty sure he means rolling tobacco which is different to a pack of cigerettes.
He said pro rata on similar tobacco products
Thank you Jonny!……… I’m a she not a he btw :-)
No where near enough, should have added atleast 1 euro
10c on
Pack of 20. Pro rata
I have been drinking for well over 50 years and never once have publicans missed a chance to stick it to us at each budget so hard luck boys, the gravy train has hit the buffers.
They abolish air travel tax thus bringing more tourism to Ireland but in a good traditional Irish way we fleece the tourists on the price of booze!!
They should be lowering the prices of Tobacco and Alcohol, just so we can all drink and smoke ourselves under the table trying to swallow all the other tax cuts and hikes.
Guaranteed they gave themselves a rise in pay in some form or other to congratulate them selves on how much they managed to take off the common folks.
Shoulda slapped 20 euro on d fàğş and left us boozers alone no douth d local publican will slap another 10 cent on the pint
Are you drunk already?
Is your justification for ‘slapping 20 euro’ on d fags’ because of it’s health issues? Pretty sure boozing is also not such a healthy pasttime.
Never saw any public brawls or anti social behaviour resulting from someone smoking a rake of cigarettes… just sayin’.
Great, might as well look for a new job. Can’t wait for customers to be giving out over price of drink. What about off licences!!!! That’s where most drink is being bought, n they don’t have as many overheads as pubs.
10 million cases of wine sold raised €45m? Useless results!!! Jobs will be lost. Consumers will drink more crap, smugglers are smiling….No sign of a €1 increase in under taxed beer….which responsible for under age drink €4 duty per litre of wine versus €1.4 per litre of beer.
10 cent probably works out nearer 17 cent when you add VAT and a round up by the brewery
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If everyone in Ireland gave up smoking and drinking for a month the economy would collapse. It will never happen but it would be an interesting/very cranky protest to make against the langers.
They shoulda taxed cyclist look at how much tax that woulda brought in
Liam,
Will you shut up. You’ve gave them an idea. That’ll be next years budget now.
What do I care I don’t cycle I walk, drive car.(paying lors different taxes, levies)
Also next year tolls on well used footpaths eg Grafton street.
There’s an easy way to avoid these increases-don’t smoke or drink. Pity the increases on these filthy habits weren’t more. Costs the country billions every year. Take up a sport instead.
My sport be drinkin and smokin!
Can you prove these habits cost the country billions, or are you just talking nonsense for the sake of it? For what its worth, both these habits contribute to the exchequer and make a net contribution to the economy. If they were banned, I’ve no doubt you’d be crying about the higher taxes you’d be paying as a consequence.
Yes Tom, it has been proven time and time again that the cost of health care, emergency services, mental health services and A&E costs far outweigh any money brought in from drink and tobacco. Not to mention the crime caused, domestic abuse and suicides that are linked to alcohol. Abstain and live a better life. Or be a typical irish person and get drunk while the world laughs at you. I suspect you’ll choose the latter.
Well, that’s enlightening.
Appears as though its only the Irish who get staggeringly drunk.
So to all my Irish friends etc when we staggered out of the pub.
I was NOT drunk but you all were. For all those in Germany, UK see we weren’t drunk at all.
Oh missed one.
Thank you to all my Irish friends for providing me with such amusement, unfortunately at the time I was too tired and confused (not drunk) to realise.
For the red thumber s both those comments are meant sarcastically.
Marshall, you may be right. However, increasing taxes on alcohol will not stop any of these issues from happening. The best example are the illegal drugs: are there no problems associated with them, just because they are illegal?
This is what will happen: more people will drink at home, will buy cheaper products, will go for poor quality, will make their own alcohol, and smuggling will flourish. This, in turn, will put greater pressure on the health services, since you cannot control the quality of smuggled or home made products.
The only viable solutions are educating the people, making them aware of the problems linked to alcohol consumption, and changing the culture of binge drinking.
I’m reading these from the UK, and I’m just hoping wine over here doesn’t decide to go up 50p aswell! :/
Ahh the thing is though Laura, you can jump on the eurostar and fill up the boot of your car with cheap wine in France.
So in 12 months €1.50 has been added to the existing tax on a price of a bottle of wine. Why is the extra tax added to all wine where prices vary widely? €1.50 on a bottle of wine that’s only €5 and the same in a bottle that’s €20. If I could afford the more expensive wine I’d buy it, not fair!
They should have added more than 10c on drink and smokes, they are only luxuries after all…. A euro on each!!
Morons! Why did they not put cigarettes up much more? It is a completely toxic, poisonous product that is far too available to young people to start smoking in their teens – a horrible and cynical business – they need to put it up so high that it is not affordable for teenagers to start smoking. And crack down really hard on the illegal fags. In all honesty, all the teenagers I know who smoke do not in any case buy the illegal fags – they get people to buy fags for them in the local newsagent, and of course there are also many newsagents who sell to young people who are plainly much younger than 18. Shocking to see the next generation getting this awful habit that will likely plague them for decades, destroy their health and take so much money out of their pockets.
Michelle…as stated in earlier responses, be careful what you wish for! If the smokers and drinkers in this country stopped cold turkey the economy would collapse. What might happen then?…think Cyprus…they come after you and your bank accounts…
Ireland must be the only country where the economy is judged on the price of the pint – - other country’s worry about the price of bread milk fuel here it’s the pint – what the he’ll is wrong wit us.
Ha!…… too true!
Well the horrible little hobbit faced pr1ck… Fcuk that now it’ll be €4.10 a pint in my local. This will only drive more people to the supermarket and more drinking at home so more jobs lost… Makes perfect sense…. #uselessfcukers
..Hiccup !
This ongoing austerity will have the same affect on the Irish nation as a tourniquet can have on an injured leg.
The more you tighten it the more the blood flow is decreased to it, but if you don’t remove the tourniquet, the extremity may die from lack of blood flow and require an amputation.
Ireland’s answer, feck it lets go for a pint! Why not go down to the Dail and show your anger??
Is this 10c increase applicable to cans in off licenses also ? I hope and presume not?
Another black day for the already dying Irish pub trade and no 800 euro grant to help bury it..or anyone else for that matter.
Yup. It’s on all alcohol no matter where it’s sold.
MONSTERS :’(
They used to say that a yard of pub counter was worth the price of 40 acres of land.Hahaha not any more.
Jesus, I read that as up by 10 and 50 PERCENT…I was going to put half a bottle of Hardy’s on eBay…
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