As for drinking, you should know that excessive drinking is harmful to your health. Most people drink too much, that is, they are drunk.
Many people don't know much about the harm of drinking, especially the harm to health, and may even enter some misunderstandings.
1. Moderate drinking is good for health?
Many people think that moderate drinking is good for health, especially drinking, and that drinking helps to soften blood vessels. Some people even think that drinking some wine properly, warming up and being a little drunk can make people feel happy and drive away their troubles. So many people give themselves reasons to drink some wine, so that they drink more and more later.
So is this really the case? In fact, according to a study published in the authoritative medical journal The Lancet 20 18, drinking alcohol does not bring any health benefits, and the statement that moderate drinking is good for health simply does not exist!
In other words, as long as you drink alcohol, it will have a bad influence on your body. Even if drinking can bring some so-called benefits, it will do more harm than good. After all, drinking alcohol requires liver metabolism, which will increase the burden on the liver. Alcohol metabolism will produce acetaldehyde, which is harmful to health.
According to relevant surveys, compared with non-drinkers, drinking 10g of wine every day (almost 1 can of beer) will increase the incidence rate by 0.5%. Moreover, the American Heart Association found through the study of 12 that a small amount of drinking will increase the risk of atrial fibrillation by 8%, and drinking one more cup every day will increase the risk by 8%.
Therefore, even a little drinking is harmful to your health. The best advice is not to touch alcohol, so that you can be responsible for your health.
2. Not everyone can drink.
Drinking alcohol itself is not good for health, although most people don't drink alcohol immediately, and it won't do harm to their health soon. But not everyone can drink it, and some special people must drink less.
Diabetic patients: Diabetic patients should not drink alcohol, because alcohol will hinder the liver's dysplasia of glycogen. If it is superimposed with hypoglycemic drugs, it may lead to hypoglycemia, which is a bit dangerous.
Patients with angina pectoris: Patients with angina pectoris often take drugs related to angina pectoris, which will affect the metabolism of alcohol and easily make acetaldehyde, a metabolite of alcohol, stay, thus causing harm to health.
Hypertensive patients: Drinking alcohol will make people's heart beat faster and blood flow faster, but it will also make blood pressure unstable and increase the risk of vascular rupture and stroke. It is recommended to drink less alcohol.
People who are prone to blush when drinking: People who are prone to blush when drinking are generally defective in the gene of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the body, which means that acetaldehyde, a metabolite of alcohol, cannot be decomposed well, so it will have adverse effects on the body, reflecting the phenomenon that it is easy to blush.
3. Drinking alcohol in China is more likely to damage the liver.
It is reported that the liver of China people is more vulnerable to alcohol damage than that of western countries. This is because more than half of China people have defects in alcohol metabolizing enzymes, or the activity of alcohol metabolizing enzymes is poor.
However, if there are too few alcohol metabolizing enzymes or the activity is poor, acetaldehyde, the metabolite of alcohol, can't be further metabolized into harmless substances, so it is easy to exist in the body in the form of acetaldehyde, and then there are uncomfortable symptoms such as blushing and rapid heartbeat after drinking.
According to the list published by the World Health Organization, acetaldehyde is classified as a first-class carcinogen, and its long-term accumulation in the body will increase the risk of digestive tract cancer, which deserves attention.
In this way, drinking in China is more harmful, so it is better to drink less at ordinary times.
4. How to reduce the harm of drinking?
Although drinking is harmful to health, it can still be reduced by some means. Nowadays, it is difficult for many social parties to leave drinking, so how can we reduce the harm of drinking on the wine table?
The general method is to eat something at the bottom before drinking, so that alcohol will not be absorbed so quickly, people will not get drunk easily, and the harm to the body will be less. The recommended food is starch and high protein, so bread and meat are more suitable.
Also, you can drink plenty of water and take a few sips between drinks, which will help you to accelerate the formation of urine and help to expel alcohol from your body. You can also eat some watermelons properly. Watermelon is rich in water and has diuretic effect, which is also very good.
It is worth noting that when drinking, it is best to avoid touching smoked sausage and kebabs, so that under the catalysis of alcohol, some bad substances contained in it are more easily absorbed, which is not good for your health. Then there is bean jelly, which often contains alum, which will slow down the blood flow and is not suitable as an appetizer.
In short, drinking less or less at ordinary times is good for your health. Never get drunk, or it will do more harm to your health.