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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virtual Beer Can Lets You Pretend to Be an Alcoholic]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</guid><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a somewhat poorly thought out product...  Wouldn't this sound be an actual trigger for alcoholics to want to drink more...?  This sound is not associated with the high of alcohol as the reward is not instantaneous like food, which the carbohydrates immediately gets digested in your mouth and trigger dopamine release in the brain.  One of the things they teach an addict in therapy is to avoid triggers that stimulates the brain into desiring or receptive to the addictive substance...  I assure you this product will not work as advertised but may actually work against its original intended purpose.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cwnyc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 28th 2009 5:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virtual Beer Can Lets You Pretend to Be an Alcoholic]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</guid><description><![CDATA[After 30 pulls, perhaps the "reward" sound might be  that of throwing up? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[shjelo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 29th 2009 7:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Virtual Beer Can Lets You Pretend to Be an Alcoholic]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/28/virtual-beer-can-lets-you-pretend-to-be-an-alcoholic/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you're an adult with nothing better to do than sit around pulling the poptop on a toy beer, you've got bigger problems than virtual alcoholism.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Angiebaby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 29th 2009 9:47AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
