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...Open University, investigates...Find out more about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses People have been consuming alcohol for at least 10,000 years. And when drinking water was rather risky, alcohol seemed a much safer bet . Amaldus of Villanova, a 14th-century monk, even wrote that alcohol “prolongs life, clears away ill humours, revives the heart and...

...Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Over the last 50 years the interest in extreme sports has increased significantly, with risk-taking behaviour in sport being used to describe engagement in high-risk leisure activities such as skiing and skydiving which tend to be characterised as activities that involve hazards (Jones et al, 2015). These are...