What's the difference between beer and liquor?

Everyone knows that beer contains many vitamins, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid and folic acid, which are rich in nutrition and liquor has many benefits. What's the difference between beer and liquor? What's the difference between the beer I sorted for you and the white wine? I hope you like it!

The difference between beer and liquor The main components of liquor are alcohol and water. The higher the alcohol content, the stronger the alcohol content, and the greater the harm to human body. 1 g ethanol can supply 5 kilocalories, and moderate consumption of liquor can excite the circulatory system. People with insomnia drink a small amount of white wine before going to bed, which is beneficial to sleep, and can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and saliva, and play a role in strengthening the stomach. Liquor has the functions of ventilation, dispelling cold, relaxing muscles and promoting blood circulation, such as safflower wine for treating blood stasis dysmenorrhea, turtle meat wine for treating cough for many years, snake blood wine for invigorating qi and nourishing blood, etc.

Beer is also an alcoholic beverage, with 400 kilocalories per liter, half from alcohol and half from sugar. One liter of beer is equivalent to 200 grams of bread or 500 grams of potatoes or 45 grams of vegetable oil. Beer also contains amino acids, vitamins and so on. Beer metabolizes quickly and makes people fat easily. Excessive drinking will destroy cell function and produce alcohol poisoning. People with hypertension and coronary heart disease had better not drink alcohol. People with diabetes can only drink it after being designated by a doctor, and can't drink it on an empty stomach.

Their brewing techniques are also different. Beer contains certain nutrients, while liquor has no nutrition at all!

The difference between long-term drinking beer and liquor 1, moderate long-term drinking liquor.

Moderate consumption of liquor has the functions of stimulating appetite, relaxing muscles and tendons, eliminating dampness and keeping out the cold. British research shows that the mortality rate of men who drink moderately is 265,438+0% ~ 28% lower than that of men who don't drink. Japanese researchers also found that a small amount of drinking can dilate human blood vessels, inhibit platelet aggregation and help prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral thrombosis, so the Japanese call it alcohol? Changshengshui? .

2, the right amount of long-term drinking beer

Drinking beer in moderation for a long time can protect blood vessels, reduce the risk of diabetes and maintain vitality. The study found that the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks in hypertensive male patients who drank moderate amounts of beer was reduced. Drinking beer in moderation is also helpful to prevent thrombosis and ischemic stroke; At the same time, beer can prevent bone loss and rebuild male bone mass.

But these are all based on moderate drinking. Once overdosed, alcohol will be harmful to your health. Let's take a look at the consequences of drinking beer and liquor for a long time:

1, long-term excessive drinking of liquor.

A small amount of alcohol has a sedative effect, but a large intake will seriously damage memory, attention, judgment, vision and emotional response. Drinking too much will also cause slurred speech, blurred vision and loss of balance. Secondly, it is the most harmful to the liver. Long-term drinking of white wine has irreversible damage to the liver, in which the probability of liver cirrhosis will increase and stomach jaundice may also occur. It is harmful to the heart, skin and stomach to varying degrees.

2. Long-term excessive drinking of beer

Beer will produce polybasic acids during brewing, which will more than double the uric acid in the human body, and uric acid is the main factor inducing gout and will also promote the formation of gallstones. There is lead in the raw material of beer brewing. Drinking a lot of beer will increase the blood lead content, make people mentally retarded, and make the elderly more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease.

Secondly, American cancer experts found that people who drink beer for a long time are three times more likely to suffer from oral cancer and esophageal cancer than those who drink hard liquor, and beer is more likely to damage gastric mucosa and cause gastritis and peptic ulcer. Finally, the calorie of beer is too large, and long-term excessive drinking will cause fat accumulation in the body. Beer belly? , and often accompanied by three highs.

Therefore, through the above analysis and comparison, we will certainly understand a truth: moderate drinking is good for health, while excessive drinking is harmful to health. Of course, these are all based on the premise that drinkers can drink. If we are happy, it is understandable to indulge once in a while, but in daily life, the small bottle still advises drinkers: drink moderately and live a healthy life!

The taboo of drinking beer 1. Do not eat smoked food: after drinking beer, the content of lead in blood increases, and lead can combine with harmful substances in smoked food to become carcinogens.

2. Not suitable for eating seafood together: According to the data, drinking a lot of beer while eating seafood can cause gout and urinary calculi. The reason is that seafood is rich in purine and monophosphate, which will be deposited in the form of sodium salt, causing gout or stones.

3. It is not suitable to be mixed with liquor: the brewing methods of various wines are different, and the raw materials are also different. The ingredients of various wines are not miscible with each other. If beer is mixed with liquor, it will accelerate the penetration of alcohol in liquor into the whole body, strongly stimulate and harm organs such as liver, stomach, intestine and kidney, and also affect the production of digestive enzymes in the body, reduce gastric acid secretion and accelerate alcoholism. It can also cause stomach cramps and acute gastroenteritis. And it is also harmful to cerebral blood vessels.

4. People with gastritis should not drink beer: drinking a lot of beer will cause chronic gastritis, and people who already have chronic gastritis will aggravate stomach problems and cause gastric bleeding. Normal gastric mucosa can secrete prostaglandin E, which can regulate gastric acid and protect gastric mucosa from gastric acid damage. After beer enters the stomach, it can reduce the secretion of prostaglandin E in the stomach wall. Beer can stimulate the gastric mucosa, causing gastric mucosal injury, gastric mucosal congestion and edema, loss of appetite and epigastric fullness.

5. Users should not drink beer: Because beer can react chemically with drugs, it will produce side effects, which will not only increase acidity, but also affect the decomposition and absorption of drugs and affect the curative effect of drugs. Especially for antibiotics, antihypertensive drugs, sedatives, anticoagulants and so on, the impact is more obvious.

6. Gout patients should not drink beer. Uric acid is the final product of purine compounds catabolism in human body. Elevated uric acid can cause hyperuricemia, gouty arthritis, uric acid kidney calculi, renal insufficiency and so on. Beer contains a lot of purines and nucleic acids. After drinking beer, the uric acid in the blood will increase, causing gout.

7. Diabetic patients should not drink beer: the alcohol in beer will produce a certain amount of heat, which will affect the normal diet control of patients. Drinking too much beer at a time will increase the blood sugar content in the human body.

8. It is not advisable to drink expired beer: the main component of beer is maltose, which will deteriorate after long-term storage and the carbon dioxide in beer will disappear. Drinking expired beer can cause diarrhea or poisoning. Generally speaking, ordinary beer can be stored for two months, high-quality beer can be stored for four months, and bulk beer can only be stored for more than 10 days.