What harm can alcoholism do to your health?

Is drinking often harmful to your health? Of course there is. However, in China, there are not a few people who drink well. Others ignore the positive effects of alcohol on health in some ways. What's the harm of drinking regularly?

Hazard 1: adverse effects on liver and brain. The main components of wine are ethanol and water, and the impact on health is mainly ethanol. The alcohol content determines the degree of alcohol.

When people start drinking, alcohol will quickly reach the gastrointestinal tract and be absorbed, and then it will accumulate in the blood, thus damaging cells and tissues, especially the brain and liver. If you drink alcohol on an empty stomach, it only takes 5 minutes, and the drinker's blood will contain alcohol.

Studies have shown that it takes at least 3 hours for the human body to excrete 18 ml of alcohol, which means that the liver can only decompose about 6 ml of alcohol per hour. So, after drinking and going home to sleep, your liver is not resting, but working overtime. If you drink as drunk as a fiddler, your liver is equivalent to experiencing hepatitis.

The impact on the brain is also not optimistic. Ethanol can quickly enter the brain through the "blood-brain barrier", which affects the response and transmission of neurons to information. Long-term drinking, high concentration of ethanol in the brain, high risk of brain injury, including a decrease in the number of cells, brain atrophy.

Hazard 2: Regular drinking will greatly increase the risk of related diseases. There is no need to elaborate on the relationship between alcoholism and disease. Here are only some data for your reference:

A report in Life Times 20 1 1 quoted a statistical data of the World Health Organization. At least 60 human diseases are caused by drinking.

Drinking 30 to 60 grams a day will lead to an increase in blood pressure.

People who drink 70 to 2 10 grams per week have three times the risk of developing tumors as non-drinkers.

If you are interested, your readers can continue to list more and more countless data and materials on the relationship between drinking and diseases.

Hazard 3: Alcoholism is closely related to obesity. Alcohol itself is a high-energy substance. When it is metabolized in the human body, it will release a lot of heat. The calories of most liquor are between 250 and 300 kcal per 100 ml, while the calories of beer are between 30 and 35 kcal.

Do you think beer is not bad? The capacity of a bottle of beer in China is mostly around 500 ml. You know, at the dinner table, drinking beer is never a matter of "two cups", but a matter of "one bottle". When drinking, you will eat a lot of high-calorie and greasy food, thus pushing up the calorie intake level.

According to statistics, alcoholics consume 2,000 kilocalories more per month than people who don't like drinking, which is almost equivalent to 4 packets of potato chips (each packet100g, containing about 500 kilocalories).

Alcohol produces a substance called "NADH" (scientific name: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) in the metabolic process of human body, which can make the body get the wrong signal, thus converting more heat into fat for storage.

Therefore, it can be said that every time you drink alcohol, you are contributing to the "obesity cause".

Of course, a good drinker will never miss the opportunity of "clearing his name with wine" because there is a view that "moderate drinking" is good for health. In fact, there is no unified cognition and conclusion about this view at present.

For example, the 2002 dietary guidelines in the United States suggest that men should not drink more than two standard amounts (about 340 ml of beer or 85 to 1 10 ml of wine) every day. In 2007, the Nutrition Society of China suggested that the daily alcohol intake of adult men should not exceed 25g (about 700ml beer, 75g 38-degree liquor, or 50g high-alcohol liquor).

Alcoholics have been putting forward the suggestion of "moderate drinking" for nine consecutive days when drinking heartily, but in fact, few alcoholics know what the standard of "moderate drinking" is. Compared with the harm caused by long-term drinking, the benefits of moderate drinking can be completely ignored.

William Wang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote four famous sentences in Two Poems of Liangzhou: "If you want to drink pipa, you must urge it immediately. Drunk in the battlefield, you don't laugh, and you have fought several wars in ancient times. " Wine is an important prop to create a lofty artistic conception in this poem.

However, if you really have a glass of "luminous grape wine" every day in your life, it is likely to become "drunk in a hospital bed, and several people have been seriously ill since ancient times"!