Why is drinking alcohol bad for your stomach?

Benefits of drinking:

If you drink in moderation, have some good food, and feel happy, you will often turn harm into benefit and receive unexpected benefits. Because the decomposition of alcohol by the liver requires the participation of a variety of enzymes and vitamins, the higher the alcohol content of the wine, the more enzymes and vitamins the body consumes, so it should be replenished in time. Fresh vegetables, fresh fish, lean meat, beans, eggs, etc. can be used as side dishes.

Foods such as salted fish, sausages, and bacon contain pigments and nitrites. The reaction with alcohol will not only damage the liver, but also easily cause damage to the oral and esophageal mucosa. Therefore, it is not advisable to use it in excess. vegetable.

Only drinking alcohol without eating vegetables will harm the liver.

Some people only drink alcohol without eating vegetables, which will harm the liver. From a health perspective, the higher the alcohol content of the wine, the more you should eat vegetables rich in animal protein. This is also a tip for drinking. Liver-protecting drugs sold on the market contain methionine and choline.

Beef, roasted chicken, fish and other animal foods and soy products contain large amounts of methionine and choline. Therefore, eating these foods is equivalent to taking liver-protective drugs. Alkaline foods, such as cold dishes mixed with vinegar, vegetables and fruits, are also beneficial to protecting the liver.

In addition, wine and meat are both acidic foods. Drinking alcohol while eating alkaline foods such as vegetables can neutralize the acidity and reduce the burden on the liver. Eating more fish, chicken, tofu and tempeh while drinking is also beneficial.

If you are thirsty after drinking, you can eat some fruits.

Alcohol has a diuretic effect and can excrete salt in the urine. In order to supplement the loss of salt in the body, it is best to drink a glass of light salt water the morning after drinking. Because the diuretic effect of wine itself and the salt in the dishes increase blood concentration, thirst is easy to occur after drinking. Drinking glass after glass of water at this time is also not good for the liver.

The best way is to eat some fruits, which can neutralize the acidity, and the sugar in the fruits can promote the burning of alcohol in the body, thereby reducing its toxicity to the liver.

Eating while drinking and supplementing with sufficient carbohydrates can reduce the occurrence of alcoholic fatty liver disease. Drinking alcohol and eating some vegetables can also reduce the burden on the liver. Vinegar salads and fruits are good choices. They can neutralize, and the sugar in the fruits can accelerate the burning of alcohol in the body. At the same time, they supplement important antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and trace element selenium. It can also reduce the toxicity of alcohol on the liver.

■Dangers of drinking alcohol:

Dangers of drinking alcohol

In daily life, beer, wine and liquor are commonly consumed. The origin, brewing process and ethanol content of various wines are different. Alcohol content usually refers to the percentage of ethanol contained in wine (by volume). For example, Beijing beer contains ethanol 5.4, wine contains ethanol about 11-16, usually called 11-16 degrees, and liquor contains ethanol 38-60, which contains ethanol. 38 is also called low-alcohol liquor.

Article 7 of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" is "Drinking alcohol should be limited", and there is a paragraph explaining the harm of excessive drinking. Drinking a small amount of low-alcohol alcohol is not necessarily harmful, but excessive drinking or even binge drinking is definitely harmful but not beneficial. So what kind of alcohol can you drink? And how to limit the amount of alcohol?

A large amount of data in epidemiological studies suggests that if you drink no more than 24 grams of ethanol per day, it is equivalent to 540 ml of beer, 200 60 ml of fruit wine and 60 ml of 40% white wine are less dangerous.

Long-term drinking can lead to a lack of various nutrients in the body. Wine is one of the pure calorie foods. It can be broken down in the body to produce energy. But it does not contain any nutrients. Excessive drinking firstly reduces the intake of other foods containing a variety of important nutrients (such as protein, vitamins, minerals). Secondly, it can reduce appetite, reduce food intake, and long-term excessive drinking can damage the intestines. The mucosa affects the intestinal absorption of nutrients, and all of the above can lead to a variety of nutrient deficiencies.

The ethanol in wine has a direct toxic effect on the tissues and organs of the body. The organ most sensitive to ethanol is the liver.

Continuous excessive drinking can damage liver cells and interfere with the normal metabolism of the liver, which can lead to alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis.

Excessive drinking affects fat metabolism. Ethanol slows down fatty acid oxidation, which may be beneficial to the storage of dietary lipids, increases liver fat synthesis, increases serum triglyceride content, and increases the possibility of triglyceridemia.

In addition, population epidemiological studies show that long-term excessive drinking will increase the risk of hypertension and stroke. Alcoholism can also lead to violent accidents, etc., which is harmful to personal health and social security.

People often talk about the beneficial effects of fruit wine recently. A French report found that some drinking areas had less coronary heart disease than others. However, the reduced risk of heart disease cannot all be attributed to certain components in red wine, because areas of France with high red wine consumption also have high consumption of vegetables and fruits, which have higher antioxidant capacity. These data indicate that the lifestyle of fruit wine drinkers (such as less smoking, higher consumption of vegetables and fruits, etc.) leads to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.

To sum up, drinking alcohol has both advantages and disadvantages for human health. Drinking a small amount of low-alcohol alcohol has some benefits, but drinking large amounts for a long time is harmful. Especially for teenagers and pregnant women. Teenagers are in the growth and development stage and are more sensitive to the harm of alcohol. Therefore teenagers cannot drink alcohol. The harmful effects of ethanol on pregnant women can affect fetal development and even induce congenital malformations in the fetus, so pregnant women are absolutely prohibited from drinking alcohol.

Excessive drinking: the harm is not small

Although it is said that "no party is complete without alcohol", at the same time, alcohol is also an "intestinal poison", and excessive drinking brings many harms. Every year, I don’t know how many people have accidents due to drinking, how many people lose their lives in this hot and humid time, and how many health disappears between bottles and cans.

It is sad that excessive drinking leads to tragedy

A statistical data from the Institute of Mental Health of Peking University shows that in our country, the number of people drinking has been on the rise in recent years. At present, the drinking rates of men and women in my country are 84.1% and 29.3% respectively, of which 16.1% of men and 2.5% of women drink alcohol every day. In 1982, the incidence rate of alcohol dependence in my country was only 0.16‰. By 1990, it had increased more than three times. Alcoholics are becoming younger and the proportion of women is increasing.

A set of data from the World Health Organization shows that the mortality and morbidity rates caused by alcohol are equal to those of measles and malaria combined, and are also higher than those caused by smoking. In China, 114,100 people die from alcohol poisoning every year, accounting for 1.3% of the total mortality rate; 2,737,000 people are disabled, accounting for 3.0% of the total disability rate.

Speaking of tragedies caused by drinking, Professor Qu Yao, director of the Shanghai Liver Disease Research Center, told reporters a story: a middle-aged patient who was discharged from hospital after suffering from acute jaundice hepatitis and whose liver function had just returned to normal. During the Spring Festival, wedding banquets were coming one after another. At first, he could still remember the doctor's repeated instructions when he was discharged from the hospital, and he did not drink a drop of alcohol or anyone's persuasion. But at a special dinner table, when a close friend asked him what he smelled, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of Moutai. He thought that if he just drank a small cup and tried something new, nothing would happen! But the day after drinking this glass of wine, he found that his urine turned yellow, and he was tired and nauseated... It was this glass of wine that caused his hepatitis to relapse, and it soon developed into acute severe hepatitis. He eventually died due to ineffective rescue efforts. Lost his life.

Excessive drinking has not only led to countless tragic events, but has also seriously affected the image of individuals and even the country. Former Russian President Yeltsin is one of them.

It is said that one day in September 1994, the then Russian President Yeltsin flew back to Moscow from Washington. He was scheduled to have a 40-minute meeting with Irish Prime Minister Reynolds on the way. Just the day before leaving Washington, US President Clinton hosted a banquet for him. Although there was no hard liquor on the table, there was all kinds of wine. Yeltsin only ate a small piece of meat, but he frequently raised his glass to the bottom. After the wine hit his head, Yeltsin became more talkative and made a lot of foul language and "third-level jokes." The translator racked his brains to "purify" the swear words he said.

When the plane arrived at Shannon Airport, the meeting place, Yeltsin sobered up. His wife handed him the shirt, but his buttoning hands refused to work. The accompanying officials saw that something was not going well, and after some discussion, decided to let the deputy prime minister hold a brief meeting with Reynolds on behalf of the president. When the deputy prime minister got off the plane, Yeltsin shed tears and said shamefully to the accompanying officials: "What you did has embarrassed me in front of the world."

Excessive drinking can cause serious harm to the body

“Excessive drinking can harm the liver most.” Professor Qu Yao pointed out: “The core chemical substance of wine is alcohol (i.e. ethanol). What is often called drunkenness is actually alcoholism. Because more than 90% of alcohol entering the body is metabolized by the liver, its metabolites and the metabolic disorders of liver cells it causes are the main causes of alcohol-induced liver damage. A normal person will develop alcoholic liver disease in 10 years if he or she drinks 40 to 80 grams of alcohol per day. For example, cirrhosis will occur in 8 to 10 years if the average person drinks 160 grams of alcohol per day.

Professor Li Youming, deputy director of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, told reporters that he led a scientific research team to conduct a survey on alcohol intake among a population of 20,000 in both urban and rural areas of Zhejiang Province. , the results show that the prevalence of alcoholic liver disease in the population is 4.34%. For those who consume more than 40 grams of alcohol per day for more than 5 consecutive years, 48% of people will suffer from alcoholic liver disease to varying degrees; alcoholic liver disease basically occurs within the number of years of drinking. Among those who have been drinking for more than 5 years and whose total alcohol intake exceeds 100 kilograms.

Research has shown that the incidence of oral cavity and throat cancer is more than twice that of non-excessive drinkers, the incidence of thyroid cancer is increased by 30% to 150%, and the incidence of skin cancer is increased by 20%. %~70%. Women's chances of developing breast cancer increase by 20% to 60%. Among patients with esophageal cancer, 60% are excessive drinkers, while only 2% are non-drinkers. Patients with hepatitis B have a greater risk of developing liver cancer. If they drink alcohol or drink excessively, the incidence of liver cancer will be greatly increased.

In addition, excessive drinking can also have adverse effects on other parts of the body:

The brain's memory, attention, judgment, function and emotional response to more alcohol intake All were seriously injured. Drinking too much alcohol can cause slurred speech, blurred vision, and loss of balance.

Reproductive organs Alcohol can cause a decrease in sperm quality in men; for pregnant women, even a small amount of alcohol can increase the risk of physical defects in their unborn babies.

Heart People who drink a lot of alcohol will develop cardiomyopathy, which can cause the heart muscle tissue to weaken and be damaged, and fibrous tissue to proliferate, seriously affecting the function of the heart.

Stomach Drinking a large amount of alcohol at one time will cause uncomfortable symptoms of acute gastritis. Continuous ingestion of large amounts of alcohol will lead to more serious chronic gastritis.

So~~it’s better to drink less~~