Lao Liu considers himself a literary and artistic fan. In his opinion, drinking alcohol is a cultural symbol. You see, Li Bai will raise a glass to invite Ming Yue, and Su Shi will ask Qingtian for wine. And he Lao Liu will also come with two glasses of white wine every night.
Once someone questioned, he did not write poetry, did not compose, and what was the use of drinking alcohol every day, Lao Liu would talk about the health care effect of wine.
After drinking like this for more than ten years, Lao Liu went farther and farther on the road of "drinking and enjoyment". Until recently, Lao Liu's unit organized a physical examination for retired elderly, and Lao Liu was found to be suffering from liver cirrhosis.
1. Why do Chinese love to drink liquor?
Chinese baijiu has been passed down for thousands of years and permeated throughout the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization. Wine is closely related to humanities, nature, emotions, health care, etc., and is fully integrated into people's lives. It can be said that baijiu is already a value embodiment of cultural inheritance.
According to the traditional folk customs of the mainland, there has been a tradition of drinking and enjoying people since ancient times. The custom of "no feast without alcohol" has been passed down from generation to generation, and without alcohol there is no atmosphere of dinner. In addition, some people have the saying that "moderate drinking is good for health", and they have to drink a few glasses every day, and there are even rumors that liquor can fight cancer, and insisting on drinking a little every day is of great benefit to health and can prolong life, is this really the case?
Second, what will happen to the body of people who drink some liquor for dinner for a long time?
1. Baijiu contains anti-cancer substances, can drinking more fight cancer?
Through statistical research at home and abroad, it is found that the trace components of liquor mainly include nitrogen-containing compounds, acetals, aromatic compounds, lactones, furans, terpenes, etc., many of which are beneficial to the human body of trace components, such as pyrazines, terpenes, phenols, organic acids, esters, etc.
It has been proved that terpenes are widely present in nature, mostly secondary metabolites of plants, and generally have anticancer, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant effects. Lipopeptide compounds have important biological activity functions and effects, and their anticancer activity, antiviral activity, fibrinolytic activity and bacteriostatic activity are very prominent.
However, it should be noted that the conclusion that some ingredients in liquor can fight cancer are from laboratory tests, and to achieve similar concentrations, you need to drink at least 300L of baijiu per day, which is obviously unrealistic.
2. Liquor is not reliable in fighting cancer! Do more harm than good
More medical experts said that Bacillus licheniformis produced by fermentation has a health effect on the human body, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the harm to the human body compared to alcohol first-class carcinogen (WHO Cancer Research Institute defines alcohol as a first-class carcinogen).
In fact, long-term drinking of liquor is not only not beneficial to health, but may even have serious consequences, such as alcohol dependence and stomach damage, increasing the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis.
Regular alcohol intake can also cause serious damage to memory, attention, judgment, emotional responses, etc. For pregnant women, even small amounts of alcohol increase the risk of physical defects in the unborn baby.
Study: Young people drink more dangerously, and older people drink a small amount of alcohol can reduce the risk
Since alcohol poses health risks, wouldn't it be enough to drink less? Not necessarily. What is the "less" of "drinking less"? Is there a difference in this "less" standard for people of different ages?
Many international scholars have jointly published a research paper in the authoritative journal "The Lancet". For the study, researchers used data from 204 countries to calculate that 1.34 billion people consumed too much alcohol in 2020. They also use the data to gauge how much alcohol a person drinks to harm their health. The results showed that the health risks associated with drinking alcohol were age-related.
The results show that for people aged 15-39, no matter how much they drink, drinking alcohol can bring harm to their health; 60% of alcohol-related injuries occur in this age group, including traffic accidents, suicides and homicide. For middle-aged and elderly people aged 40 and above who have no underlying health problems, drinking a small amount of alcohol (1-2 standard glasses per day) may have physical benefits, including reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, etc.
Although the conclusions of this study seem to subvert common sense, its significance is to clarify the long-term harm caused by alcohol consumption, and does not mean that middle-aged and elderly people can drink unbridled, nor can they rely on the small health effects that alcohol may bring.
Fourth, drink alcohol pay attention to 3 details, can reduce damage
1. People who drink alcohol on the face, it is better not to drink
Probably we've all met people who blush at the sight of alcohol. Alcohol blushing is caused by dilated facial capillaries. The main chemical component of wine is ethanol, and under the action of alcohol dehydrogenase, the wine ingested by the body is converted into acetaldehyde in the body. People who drink on the face are precisely because of the lack of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 in the body, resulting in metabolic disorders of acetaldehyde formed by the decomposition of alcohol dehydrogenase, a large amount of accumulation in the body, stimulating telangiectasia, appearing "big red face", and may also lead to headaches, rapid heartbeat and other symptoms.
Studies have shown that people who drink alcohol are prone to blushing, so they are at higher risk of osteoporosis and fractures than people who do not "get on the face" when drinking, and are also more likely to have a higher risk of high blood pressure. A study by the University of Tokyo showed that people who drink alcohol and blush, are more likely to have a high risk of esophageal cancer and stomach cancer, even if they drink a small amount of alcohol.
2. Do not mix wine
All kinds of alcohol should not be mixed and drunk, otherwise it is easy to cause greater stimulation and harm to organs such as the liver, stomach and kidneys.
First of all, the alcohol content of different types of alcohol is different, and a large number of different types of wine are poured in a short period of time, and it is difficult for the body to adapt to such changes. Secondly, the composition of various wines is different, such as beer contains carbon dioxide and a lot of water, mixed with liquor, will accelerate the penetration of alcohol throughout the body, resulting in a sharp increase in blood alcohol concentration in a short period of time, greater damage to organs.
3. If symptoms appear, quit drinking immediately
It should be reminded that long-term (more than 5 years) heavy drinkers, if there is right upper abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, weight loss, jaundice, spider angiomata angiomata and liver palms and other symptoms, should be alert to the "distress signal" sent by the body, to quit alcohol in time, and seek medical examination.
Summary: Alcohol is closely related to human life and is ubiquitous. Drinking is inevitable, but long-term excessive drinking can not only cause alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis, but also cause oral cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, etc. While paying attention to a few details can help reduce the damage of drinking, the most useful way to be healthy is to quit drinking. #谣零零计划 #
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