Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 26 Mar 19

YOU'D be pretty brave to tell a 25 year old woman or man they are not yet an adult, but that's exactly what a UK neuroscientist says.

Professor Peter Jones, from Cambridge University, said, "What we're really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd.

"It's a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."

Ah, that sounds safer.

Jones explained that the education system, health systems and legal systems find it "convenient" to have definitions.

"There isn't a childhood and then an adulthood," he said. "People are on a pathway, they're on a trajectory."

And of course, there are plenty of over-65s who still say they never want to grow up.

the annual Christian tradition of giving something up for Lent, in the lead-up to Easter, has worked out well for a US man who claims to have lost more than 12kg by going on a completely liquid diet.

And not just any liquid - Del Hall is sticking to only drinking beer, and is now 18 days into his spiritual "ordeal".

"I feel amazing," he told the Cincinatti Enquirer, saying he was inspired by the practice of 17th century Bavarian monks who would observe Lent by fasting on a purely "Bock Beer Diet".

Hall said he's hoping to become less dependent on fatty foods and sugar - but it's interesting to note that he's also attracting lots of attention for his employer, the Fifty West Brewing Company.