Those who drink wine, spirits or beer regularly are less prone to heart failure and heart attacks than people who rarely or never drink.
They are also less prone to depression and less likely to suffer from insomnia.
We become prone to overconfidence, take stupid risks and misjudge opportunities.
Baby Fat: If you've got plump cheeks or extra baby fat on your face, you might be prone to infections.
" – Ned Vizzini If you are prone to depression, this feeling probably sounds familiar to you.
While some health experts acknowledge that individual genetic and metabolic differences mean that some people are more prone to gaining weight than others, the most widely disseminated public health message is that anyone can achieve a desirable weight by eating less and exercising regularly.
As early as the 1930s researchers noticed children born in winter were more prone to health problems later in life - slower growth, mental illness and even early death.
That is, they were more prone to being duplicitous and self-serving, cold-hearted and lacking in empathy, vain and selfish, and more likely to derive pleasure from other people's pain.
" Ignoring our natural circadian rhythms could lead to exhaustion, frustration, anxiety, weight gain and hyper-tension, he said, and could make a person more prone to stimulant or alcohol use and risk-taking.
If your skin is prone to acne, you should use an oil-free product that is non-comdogenic.
In fact, because of the sheer volume of messages we're reading and writing each day, we may be more prone to making embarrassing errors — and those mistakes can have serious professional consequences.
A group of Chinese teachers believe the option of living on welfare handouts has produced "feather-bedded" teenagers prone to rudeness and disrupting the classroom rather than concentrating on working and getting ahead.
" 'With things like jams, the high sugar content means you don't have to store it in the fridge but it's wise to as they are prone to mould development over time.
Men are more prone to ignoring mounting debts and forgetting to pay bills, whereas women chip away at credit card bills with regular repayments, the study found.
It is not possible to remove all risk, and the fact is I remain prone to cancer.
The tone, that taught me to rejoice, ,, When prone, unlike thee, to repine; ; The song, celestial from thy voice, , But sweet to me from none but thine; .
Some pediatricians said that if feeding peanut foods to children at risk was beneficial, there would be no reason to withhold such food from children not prone to allergies.
However, wolves are not particularly prone to following a director's instructions, so Simpson and Annaud sometimes had to wait a whole day just to capture the right scene.
By comparison, experts at McGill University in Canada found that men whose digits are of a similar length are more prone to be argumentative, stubborn and rude.
How far should policy be based on these perceptions, particularly since those who make policy are, as the WDR admits, prone to all sorts of biases in their own decision-making?
