from Health Psychology
When people exercise more, such as weekends, they drink more alcohol, too. That’s the finding from Northwestern University and Penn State, which used smartphones to record daily physical activity and alcohol consumption of one hundred fifty people from eighteen to eighty-nine. Lead author of the study in Health Psychology, David Conroy, says people tend to cut back on alcohol Monday through Wednesday, but the social weekend seems to start Thursday, with both physical activity and alcohol consumption increasing. He said it is not simply that people who exercise more tend to drink more, just that they drink more than on days when they are less active. One possibility is people reward themselves for working out by having more to drink, or perhaps being physically active leads them into social situations where alcohol is consumed.