Long ring fingers can point to a love of alcohol
The length of your fingers may hold a vital clue to your drinking habits, according to a new study. There is evidence that alcohol consumption is influenced by prenatal sex steroids so experts from Swansea University and colleagues from the Medical University of Lodz decided to use a sample of students for their research into the subject. Their findings have just been published by prestigious online journal American Journal of Human Biology. They found relationships between high alcohol consumption and long 4th digits relative to 2nd digits. This showed that high prenatal testosterone relative to oestrogen is linked to high student alcohol consumption. Professor John Manning, of Swansea’s Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM) research team, said: “Alcohol consumption is a major social and economic problem. Therefore, it is important to understand why alcohol use shows considerable differences across…
