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Can excessive drinking cause cancer?
Speaking of drinking, we all know that alcohol (that is, ethanol) in wine is very irritating to the mucosa of human esophagus and gastrointestinal tract, which not only easily causes gastric ulcer, but also easily causes esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer and liver cancer. The risk of excessive drinking is dozens of times higher than that of the general population. According to statistics, about 5% of patients who died of cancer were related to drinking. For women, even a small amount of alcohol will increase the risk of breast cancer; The greater the amount and frequency of drinking, the greater the risk. Why does drinking cause cancer? One of the reasons is that ethanol is a carcinogen, but it will accelerate and enhance carcinogenicity when it meets carcinogens.

Liver cirrhosis is also one of the consequences of long-term heavy drinking, and 80%-90% of patients with liver cirrhosis may be related to drinking; Ethanol affects the normal fat metabolism of human body, and even forms fatty liver, which can develop into cirrhosis and then liver cancer. In addition, a large number of references to beer, fat accumulation in the abdomen, known as "beer belly"; Fat accumulates in the heart muscles, forming a "beer heart"; These are not good for health.

Excessive drinking will increase the risk of stroke. According to statistics, long-term alcoholism can double the risk factor of death from stroke, and more than half of them often drink a lot, which greatly shortens the average life expectancy and working years.

Parental drinking also affects the development of the next generation of children. In the first three months of pregnancy, the father often drinks alcohol, and the next generation of children are prone to diseases such as pulmonary artery stenosis, hemangioma and ureteral dysplasia. The mother drank heavily from 3 months before conception to half a year after the birth of the child, but the child was mentally retarded.

If a large number of people drink too much, their normal appetite will often be suppressed, which will affect the body's access to nutrition from the normal diet. At the same time, alcohol will accelerate the metabolism of vitamin B 1, leading to vitamin B deficiency, neuritis, hand and foot paralysis and tremor. Neuritis caused by alcoholism in western countries accounts for the first place in neuritis caused by various reasons. It can be seen that excessive drinking will have many harmful consequences to the body.

If you drink too much, you will get drunk and cause acute ethanol poisoning. His on-the-spot performance can be divided into three periods: (1) excitement period, blushing and gushing. (2) During ataxia, the movements are clumsy, even out of balance, and the speech is incoherent. (3) Drunken people who are sleepy look pale, their lips are slightly purple, their pupils are dilated, their pulse is accelerated, their breathing is deeply paralyzed, and some even die. In addition, some people are often accompanied by digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, and warmth.

In short, "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it." So is drinking. Moderate drinking will have a good effect on the body and have a health care effect. If you don't control drinking, the transition of drinking will endanger your health.