Scientists at Cambridge University (UK) found: glasses for wine increased its volume by nearly seven times. Note that according to the who, in the next ten years, mankind will face with the “epidemic of alcoholism” and increased mortality from her.
Socio-economic factors, among which in turn allocate depreciation and availability of wine, which previously could not afford everyone, influenced the increase in the number of alcohol consumption, the researchers said. Demand creates supply: with the increasing needs of the people in wine “rose” glasses. A study in which scientists studied 411 glasses of wine, showed their volume increased almost seven times over the last three hundred years.
Note that wine glasses that became the object of research, came to the experts from Antiques shops or museums.
“People have been drinking wine from vessels with a volume of 66 ml, and to date, it reached a volume of 449 ml”, – told the scientists about the evolution of the wine glasses.
Experts noted that up to 1960-ies in the UK there was a trend: the poor preferred beer and spirits, while the rich wine. But in the 60s this social trend has changed dramatically as the wine became more affordable and its consumption has increased dramatically, including for the socio-economic framework.
Earlier Magicforum wrote about what scientists predict in the next ten years, the growth of mortality from alcohol abuse.