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men and women do not respond the same way to stress, at least when it comes to hit the bottle. In a new study, researchers have turned their laboratory in a bar where students could drink beer or wine at leisure. They asked half the students to perform a stressful task, crossing the letter "e" in a series of texts that have been subject to rules increasingly complex and required a lot of self control. The other half performed the most basic version of the crossing-out letter-task where they had to cross any case "e" they saw in the texts. The men drank four times more alcohol than women have after making the stressful task, the team reports in December 11 Addiction . Moreover, the stressed women still drink less alcohol than women who have made it easy. Scientists believe that glucose provides the energy needed to maintain self-control in stressful situations, but once the resources of men stressed depleted glucose, they could not maintain their self-control and drank more. Regarding women, the team poses they are naturally less tempted by alcohol than men, making their attitude towards integrated drinking alcohol deterrent. All is not lost however for stressed men ,. The scientists found that when male volunteers were kept track of how many drinks they drank, they more than halved their alcohol consumption.
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