From "How to relieve worries, only Du Kang " to "no banquet without wine", from ancient times to the present, the love of Chinese people for alcohol is beyond words. Festivals, dinners, seeing off guests, and homesickness are often accompanied by grapes and wine.
I believe that everyone often hears the saying "drinking alcohol is beneficial to health" in normal times. Many people agree with it. By relying on "drinking and health preservation", they have to drink two or three taels of white wine every day. However, in the medical field, alcohol has never been recommended to the public as a positive image. So, is drinking good or bad for the body?
Is it good for the body to drink two or three taels of white wine every day?
Many theories that drinking wine are beneficial are mainly focused on antioxidants such as resveratrol , anthocyanin , tannin , etc.
But the fact is that these substances are pitifully low in wine, and their effects are minimal. Compared with the harm caused by alcohol , it is not worth mentioning at all. Therefore, the statement that drinking wine is beneficial is also untenable.
There was a report in "Natural " that people under 35 years old will increase the risk of multiple diseases as long as they drink alcohol;
35-65 years old, the risk of disease increases with the increase of alcohol consumption. Even drinking a small amount can increase the probability of more than 60 diseases.
In other words, there is no healthy amount of alcohol. Drinking a small amount of alcohol is also harmful to health. The optimal intake of alcohol is: zero.
There are several harms to the body caused by drinking alcohol:
⑴ Alcohol can cause short-term memory loss. Some scientists compared people who drink often with people who do not drink often and found that people who drink often have much less brain tissue. The main parts of alcohol attack are the liver, brain and heart, especially the brain.
Alcohol enters the brain with blood, destroying hippocampus in the brain, which will damage people's memory. People who drink often have a great reduction in their memory ability and sometimes forget what they should do. This is a precursor to Alzheimer's disease.
⑵ Alcohol can cause liver hardening. Scientists investigated the liver condition of people who often drink alcohol a month later and found that the degree of liver hardening has increased and the quality of sleep is not that good.
and complications such as hypertension occur. As the time of quitting alcohol increases, the liver, sleep quality and blood pressure all tend to improve.
(3) Alcohol can increase the risk of stroke diseases. This is related to alcohol consumption, the greater the amount of drinking, the more you will be, the risk of suffering from this type of disease will rise sharply. These include severe diseases such as hemorrhagic stroke, fatal stroke, ischemic stroke, , and non-fatal stroke.
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(4) Alcohol can make methanol poisoning . industrial alcohol contains 4% methanol . People who drink alcohol frequently will suffer from methanol poisoning. methanol will produce formaldehyde and formic acid in the human body metabolism. These two metabolites will make people feel headache, nausea, blurred vision, and insomnia and death in severe cases may cause insomnia and death
This is because formic acid mainly occurs in the eyes, destroying visual nerve cells, and formic acid will enter the liver with blood, causing kidney failure.
Since alcohol is harmful to the human body but has no benefit, why don’t we directly prohibit it? Instead, someone will suggest drinking in moderation?
This is because wine is a very special part of the diet. It is a cultural element and is also a necessity for some social activities.
People are too accustomed to drinking, especially in Europe and the United States. There are many people who are addicted to alcohol or are addicted to alcohol. In order to make it easier for everyone to accept and implement, they gave suggestions on "drinking alcohol in moderation for adults".
Therefore, drinking moderate amounts can be used as a slogan, and it is more of a second-rate persuasion. From the perspective of health such as cancer prevention or disease prevention, drinking in moderation is definitely not a good suggestion. The most effective and direct method is always to keep it from drinking.
After the above story, everyone knows that drinking is of no benefit to the body.Whether it is for health preservation, venting or other factors, "drinking alcohol in moderation" is not a necessary option
WHO : Alcohol, a Class 1 carcinogen
1 Under the World Health Organization International Cancer Research Institution (IARC), which has long listed alcohol as a Class 1 carcinogen.
According to statistics, at least 5.5% of cancer occurrence and 5.8% of cancer deaths worldwide are caused by alcohol. In layman's terms, at least 1 out of every 18 cancer patients is caused by drinking.
According to follow-up investigation, the results show that drinking alcohol is directly related to breast cancer , colorectal cancer, gastric cancer , liver cancer , esophageal cancer and pancreatic cancer , etc., especially oral cancer, esophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer , etc.
Compared with men, drinking alcohol in women will only cause greater harm to the body. At least 16.4% of women have breast cancer directly related to drinking alcohol. In a person's life, drinking alcohol during the three periods of pregnancy, adolescence and old age will maximize the harm of alcohol to the body.
After alcohol enters the human body, it is catalyzed and metabolized into acetaldehyde through ethanol dehydrogenase , and then metabolized into acetic acid by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and then excreted from the body. Alcohol is ethanol , which is the source of "good" of drinking, which leads to the illusion that it is drunk because of it, and it is also the one who checks for drunk driving.
itself does not cause gene mutations, nor does it directly cause cancer. Acetic acid can be understood as "vialurum" and generally has no toxic side effects.
However, the intermediate metabolite acetaldehyde is a clear carcinogen. It is precisely for this reason that WHO listed alcoholic beverages and acetaldehyde as well as conclusive Class I carcinogens.
It is also worth noting that compared with foreigners, East Asians are more likely to cause cancer. This is because East Asians are born with genetic defects in alcohol metabolism in . Drinking alcohol seems to be the "patent" of East Asians. Foreigners are not as likely to blush when drinking like us.
The fundamental reason for blushing when drinking is that East Asians mostly carry the mutation of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene, which causes the human body to be unable to effectively and quickly degrade acetaldehyde.
Acetaldehyde accumulates in the body and has a certain impact on the blood vessel wall, causing vasodilation and the dilation of the capillaries on the face, and the person looks like his face is blushing and bulging.
Some studies on East Asian populations have found that after drinking, the probability of developing cancer and disease is much higher than that of people without the gene defect.
In other words, when drinking alcohol harms the body, East Asian races have "been suffering" since birth. Even if they drink less, they will cause some harm to the body.
If you drink alcohol, it is easy to get on your face, it means that your acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene may have defects and a higher risk of cancer.
At this time, for the sake of your own health, you must pay attention to drinking less. After all, genes are born with innate things. If you are not powerful in nature, you can only "have and cherish them" after all.
Conclusion:
Drinking has a thousand years of history for mankind. In ancient times, people mastered the methods of brewing wine. However, while alcohol brings happiness, it will also reduce part of its health. If you want to live a long life, you must consider quitting alcohol.
