As cups of wine are passed around, the distance between people becomes closer and closer. There are many sayings and poems about wine, such as: "A knife cuts off the water, and the water flows more. I use wine to relieve my sorrows." Worry makes me even more sad." "The drunkard's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers." "A thousand cups of wine is too little to meet a close friend, but half a sentence is too much to say without speculation." "A glass of wine for the driver, two lines of tears for relatives," etc.
Alcohol is the essence of food. The more you drink, the younger you become. As the backbone of the family, men have huge responsibilities. The purpose of many people drinking for the first time may be to relieve inner depression and relax their tired body. , many men have also developed the habit of drinking a little wine with dinner. What effects will it have on the body if they often drink white wine with dinner? Friends who have been drinking for a long time may wish to learn about it.
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What happens to the health of people who often drink "white wine" during dinner?
1. Damage to the gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract is an important organ for digesting and absorbing food. Every time you drink alcohol, part of it will flow into the gastrointestinal tract for digestion and absorption. Frequent heavy drinking will aggravate gastrointestinal damage. damage, induce gastrointestinal lesions, and increase the body's risk of gastrointestinal bleeding and gastric ulcers.
For people who drink heavily for a long time, if they frequently experience symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and black stools after drinking, it means that alcohol has caused great damage to the gastrointestinal tract. If the amount of alcohol is not controlled, serious consequences will be in danger. life.
2. Induce liver disease
Everyone knows that drinking alcohol damages the liver. As the largest metabolic and detoxification organ in the body, the liver plays the role of "human body cleaner". After long-term heavy drinking, the ether and ethanol in alcohol enter the liver, which will bring great burden and pressure to the liver. Over time, it will induce the occurrence of liver diseases such as alcoholic liver disease.
Drinking alcohol has a high rate of liver damage. If you do not want to develop liver disease in the future, please control the amount of alcohol you drink.
Warm reminder: The optimal daily amount of alcohol for adult men should not exceed 25 grams, and for adult women, it should not exceed 15 grams.
3. Damage to cranial nerves
People who drink alcohol for a long time will also have a greatly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in the future, which will seriously affect their memory, lose their ability to pay attention and calculation, and lead to severe symptoms of dementia. .
4. Damage to the heart
The heart is a very important organ in the body. Its main function is to transport blood and nutrients. Once the heart stops beating, it will also mean the end of life.
Long-term heavy drinking will increase the pressure and burden on the heart, reduce the pumping function of the heart, induce heart failure, cause breathing and chest tightness, shortness of breath, shortness of breath and other abnormal symptoms, aggravating the burden and pressure on the heart.
People who drink alcohol for a long time often experience abnormal symptoms of heart beating after drinking. Because alcohol has caused great damage to your heart, please change your unhealthy drinking habits as soon as possible to avoid danger. occur.
5. Raise blood pressure
Long-term drinking can easily lead to increased blood pressure. After some people get older, their blood pressure becomes unstable and there is a tendency for hypertension. At this time, they drink a lot of alcohol. Alcohol is very irritating. After drinking, your blood pressure will rise again. You will find that your heart rate begins to accelerate, and your heart will find it difficult to bear the feeling of chest tightness and chest pain.
In order to prevent blood pressure from being uncontrolled and posing a threat to human health, it is important to reduce the intake of alcohol in the process of maintaining good health. Drinking less alcohol can avoid blood vessels being irritated and causing great pressure.
6. Alcoholic cerebellar lesions
Once alcoholic cerebellar degeneration occurs in patients with long-term alcohol abuse, the patient will walk unsteadily and stagger, just like being drunk, and even have Symptoms such as dysarthria and dystaxia can seriously affect daily life and lose the ability to live independently.
7. Reduce the quality of sperm
Long-term heavy drinking will also have a great impact on the male reproductive system. Under the stimulation of alcohol, the quality of male sperm will decrease significantly. Decrease, sperm motility decreases, and survival rate is low.
In severe cases, necrozoospermia and asthenozoospermia will occur, causing men to lose their fertility and sexual function, and increase the burden and pressure on the kidneys.
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What should you do when drinking to reduce the harm of alcohol to the body?
(1) Do not drink alcoholic beverages
The most direct way to reduce the harm of alcohol to the body is not to drink alcoholic beverages. When you drink alcoholic beverages, you will feel burning in your stomach and intestines. , this is actually the stomach "complaining".
High-alcohol alcohol can easily burn our gastric mucosa. Drinking too much can lead to gastroenteritis, gastric bleeding and even more serious gastric perforation. When drinking alcohol, you must try to avoid drinking high-alcohol.
(2) Do not drink on an empty stomach
Drinking on an empty stomach is very harmful to the body. When the stomach is empty, drinking alcohol will not only cause serious damage to the gastric mucosa, but also cause serious damage to the gastric mucosa. It may also lead to gastric ulcers.
People's blood sugar is already low when they are fasting. Drinking alcohol at this time may cause hypoglycemia, which may lead to dizziness, weakness, hunger, and even coma.
For health reasons, it is best to eat something before drinking.
(3) Drink more water
Water is the source of life. Everything in the world is inseparable from the moisture of water. About 70% of the substances in the human body are made of water. Constituent, drinking more water can increase the basal metabolic rate, accelerate blood flow, and help the body detoxify and detoxify.
Drinking water can improve the ability of the kidneys to metabolize and relieve hangover, reduce the symptoms of drunkenness, and shorten the time that alcohol remains in the body. If conditions permit, you can also drink some tea to aid digestion to relieve gastric discomfort. Intestinal burden.
(4) Do not mix a variety of drinks
The alcohol content of various wines is different, and the brewing methods are also different. This large amount of mixed drinking can easily cause physical reactions However, it is impossible to carry out targeted hangover behavior against alcohol, which will aggravate the symptoms of drunkenness, increase the burden on the liver and kidneys, and increase the damage rate.
(5) Don’t drink carbonated drinks
It is best not to drink carbonated drinks when drinking. After the carbon dioxide in carbonated drinks enters the body, it will react chemically with alcohol, which is not conducive to the absorption of alcohol. dilution.
Drinking carbonated drinks while drinking alcohol will also accelerate the loss of calcium in the body, damage bones and joints, and induce osteoporosis and bone diseases, which is more harmful than drinking alone.
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Extension--Can drinking alcohol cause cancer?
Although drinking alcohol will not directly cause cancer, it will increase the risk of cancer. Long-term heavy drinking, especially high-alcohol liquor, will increase the rate of gastrointestinal damage and induce the occurrence of gastritis and alcoholic hepatitis. Causes esophageal varices and increases the chance of vomiting blood and bloody stools.
Long-term heavy drinking can cause varying degrees of damage to internal organs. In severe cases, it can lead to cardiac and esophageal mucosal tear syndrome, repeated vomiting, and increase the incidence of gastric cancer.
Severe vomiting after drinking alcohol may cause esophageal rupture. Failure to rescue in time may lead to severe symptoms of infection and poisoning. Although drinking alcohol does not directly cause cancer, it will increase the risk of cancer in the body. For the sake of health, Consider drinking responsibly.