Advantages and disadvantages of drinking.

If you drink in moderation and have some good food, you will often turn harm into benefit and get unexpected benefits. Because alcohol needs a variety of enzymes and vitamins when it is decomposed by the liver, the higher the alcohol content of wine, the more enzymes and vitamins the body consumes, so it should be supplemented in time. Fresh vegetables, fresh fish, lean meat, beans and eggs can be used as side dishes.

Salted fish, sausages, bacon and other foods, because they contain pigments and nitrite, will not only harm the liver when they react with alcohol, but also easily cause damage to the oral cavity and esophageal mucosa, so they should not be used as side dishes too much.

drinking without eating vegetables will harm the liver

some people will suffer from drinking without eating vegetables. From the health care point of view, the higher the alcohol content of wine, the more you should eat the rich dishes of animal protein, which is also a trick of drinking. The liver-protecting drugs sold in the market contain methionine and choline.

However, beef, roast chicken, fish and other animal food and soybean products contain a lot of methionine and choline. Therefore, eating these foods is equivalent to taking liver-protecting drugs. Alkaline foods, such as cold dishes, vegetables and fruits mixed with vinegar, are also beneficial to protect the liver.

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

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

Alcohol has diuretic effect and can excrete salt with urine. In order to supplement the loss of salt in the body, it is best to drink a glass of light salt water in the morning after drinking. Because of the diuretic effect of wine itself, and the salt in dishes increases the blood concentration, it is easy to feel thirsty after drinking. At this time, drinking water one after another is not good for the liver.

The best way is to eat some fruits, which can not only neutralize the acidity, but also make alcohol burn in the body, thus reducing its toxicity to the liver.

Eating while drinking and supplementing enough carbohydrates can reduce the incidence of alcoholic fatty liver. Drinking and eating some vegetables at the same time can also reduce the burden on the liver. Vinegar-mixed cold dishes and fruits are good choices. They can neutralize alcohol, and the sugar in fruits can accelerate the burning of alcohol in the body. At the same time, important antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E and trace element selenium can be supplemented, which can also reduce the toxicity of alcohol to the liver.

■ Harm of drinking:

Harm of drinking

In our daily life, we often drink beer, wine and white wine. The source, brewing technology and alcohol content of various wines are different. Alcohol degree usually refers to the percentage (by volume) of ethanol contained in wine. For example, Beijing beer contains 5.4% ethanol, wine contains about 11-16% ethanol, usually called 11-16 degrees, and liquor contains 38-6% ethanol, among which 38% ethanol is also called low-alcohol liquor.

Article 7 of the Dietary Guidelines for China Residents is "If you drink alcohol, you should limit it", and there is a paragraph explaining the harm of excessive drinking. Drinking a small amount of low-alcohol is not necessarily harmful, but drinking too much or even drinking too much is definitely harmful. So what kind of wine can I drink? How to limit the amount of drinking?

A large number of data in epidemiological studies suggest that if the daily alcohol consumption does not exceed 24 grams of ethanol, which is equivalent to 54 ml of beer, 2 ml of fruit wine and 6 ml of 4-degree liquor, the risk will be reduced.

Long-term drinking can lead to the deficiency of various nutrients in the body. Wine is one of the foods with pure heat energy. It can be decomposed in the body to produce energy. However, it does not contain any nutrients. Excessive drinking first reduces the intake of other foods containing many important nutrients (such as protein, vitamins and minerals). Secondly, it can reduce appetite, reduce food intake, and damage the intestinal mucosa and affect the absorption of nutrients by the intestine for a long time, which can lead to multiple nutrient deficiencies.

Alcohol in wine has a direct toxic effect on tissues and organs of the body, and the organ most sensitive to alcohol is the liver. Continuous excessive drinking can damage liver cells, interfere with the normal metabolism of the liver, and then cause alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis.

excessive drinking affects fat metabolism. Ethanol slows down the oxidation of fatty acids, which may be beneficial to the storage of dietary lipids, increase the synthesis of liver fat, increase the content of triglyceride in serum, and increase the possibility of triglyceride.

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, which are harmful to personal health and social security.

Recently, people often talk about the beneficial effects of fruit wine. A report in France found that coronary heart disease in some drinking areas is less than that in other areas. However, the reduction of the risk of heart disease can not be attributed to some ingredients in red wine, because in areas with high consumption of French red wine, vegetables and fruits also consume more, and vegetables and fruits have higher antioxidant capacity. These data show that the lifestyle of fruit wine drinkers (such as less smoking, high consumption of vegetables and fruits) leads to the reduction of the risk of cardiovascular disease.

To sum up, drinking alcohol has advantages and disadvantages for human health. Drinking a small amount of low-alcohol alcohol has some benefits, but drinking a lot for a long time is harmful. Especially for teenagers and pregnant women. Teenagers are in the stage of growth and development and are more sensitive to the harm of alcohol. So teenagers can't drink alcohol. The harmful effects of ethanol on pregnant women affect fetal development and even induce fetal congenital malformation, so pregnant women are absolutely forbidden to drink alcohol.

excessive drinking: the harm is not shallow

although "no wine can make a meal", at the same time, alcohol is also a "intestinal poison", and excessive drinking brings a lot of harm. Every year, I don't know how many people have accidents caused by drinking, how many people have ruined their lives, and how many health has disappeared between bottles and cans.

It's heartbreaking, and excessive drinking breeds tragedy

A statistical data from Peking University Institute of Mental Health shows that the number of drinkers in China has been on the rise in recent years. At present, the drinking rates of men and women in China 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 of alcohol dependence in China was only .16‰, which has increased by more than three times in 199, and alcoholics are younger, and the proportion of women is increasing.

A set of data from the World Health Organization shows that the mortality and morbidity caused by alcohol is the sum of measles and malaria, and it is also higher than that caused by smoking. In China, 114,1 people die of alcoholism every year, accounting for 1.3% of the total mortality; 2737 people were disabled, accounting for 3.% of the total disability rate.

Speaking of the tragedy caused by drinking, Professor Qu Yao, director of Shanghai Hepatology Research Center, told a reporter a story: A middle-aged patient who had just returned to normal liver function after suffering from acute icteric hepatitis was discharged from the hospital, which coincided with the succession of wedding banquets during the Spring Festival. At first, he could still remember the doctor's repeated instructions when he was discharged from the hospital, and he did not touch a drop of wine, no matter who persuaded him. But at a special dinner table, when a close friend asked him what he smelled, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of Maotai, thinking that it would be all right to drink only a small glass and taste the new one! But the day after drinking this cup of wine, he found that his urine was yellow, weak and disgusting ... It was this cup of wine that caused his hepatitis to recur and quickly developed into acute severe hepatitis, and eventually he lost his life because of ineffective rescue.

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

It is said that one day in September 1994, Yeltsin, then president of Russia, flew back to Moscow from Washington, where he was scheduled to have a 4-minute meeting with Irish Prime Minister Reynolds. On the day before he left Washington, US President Bill Clinton gave him a banquet. Although there was no liquor on the table, there was everything in wine. Yeltsin only ate a small piece of meat, but he raised his glasses frequently, and the cups bottomed out. After the wine went to the top, Yeltsin talked more and said a lot of rude words and "three-level jokes." The translator racked his brains to "purify" the dirty words he said. When the plane approached Shannon Airport, the meeting place, Yeltsin sobered up, and his wife handed him his shirt, but his button-buttoning hand always refused to listen. The accompanying officials saw something bad. After some discussion, they decided to let the Deputy Prime Minister hold a short 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 made me lose face in front of the world.".

drinking too much will hurt your health

"drinking too much will hurt your liver the most." Professor Qu Yao pointed out: "The core chemical substance of wine is alcohol (namely ethanol), and drunkenness is actually alcoholism. Because more than 9% of alcohol enters the body through the liver, its metabolites and the metabolic disorder of liver cells caused by it are the main causes of alcoholic liver injury. According to research, normal people drink an average of 4 grams to 8 grams of alcohol every day, and alcoholic liver disease can occur in 1 years, such as an average of 16 grams per day, and cirrhosis can occur in 8 to 1 years. What a sensational figure! "

Professor Li Youming, vice president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, told the reporter that he led a scientific research team to conduct a survey on alcohol intake of 2, people in urban and rural areas of Zhejiang Province. The results showed that the prevalence rate of alcoholic liver disease was 4.34%, and 48% of people who consumed more than 4 grams of alcohol every day for more than five years would suffer from alcoholic liver disease of different degrees. Alcoholic liver disease basically occurs in people who have been drinking for more than 5 years and have a total alcohol intake of more than 1 kg.

studies have shown that the incidence of oral and throat cancer is more than twice as high as that of non-excessive drinkers, the incidence of thyroid cancer increases by 3% ~ 15%, and the incidence of skin cancer increases by 2% ~ 7%. Women's chances of developing breast cancer increase by 2% ~ 6%. Among patients with esophageal cancer, 6% drink excessively, while only 2% don't drink. Patients with hepatitis B are at greater risk of developing liver cancer. If they drink alcohol or drink too much, the incidence of liver cancer will increase greatly.

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

Drinking more alcohol in the brain will seriously harm memory, attention, judgment, function and emotional response. Drinking too much will lead to slurred speech, blurred vision and loss of balance. < P > Alcohol in reproductive organs can reduce sperm quality in men. For pregnant women, even a small amount of alcohol will increase the risk of physical defects in unborn babies.

People who drink a lot of alcohol in the heart will develop cardiomyopathy, which can weaken and damage the muscle tissue of the heart, while the fibrous tissue will proliferate, seriously affecting the function of the heart.

A large amount of alcohol in the stomach at one time will cause discomfort symptoms of acute gastritis, and continuous intake of alcohol will lead to more serious chronic gastritis.