The relationship between drinking and health is well known to Li Shizhen: "If you drink less, your blood and qi will flow, which will strengthen your spirit against the wind and relieve your worries. If you drink too much, you will be sad and bloody, hurting your stomach and killing sperm, causing phlegm fire. " Ancient and modern health practitioners all said: "A moderate amount of wine can become a monk; Drinking too much wine will harm people. " In other words: excessive drinking is harmful, while a small amount of drinking is beneficial and harmless. The key is the word "appropriate".
No matter what kind of wine, its main component is ethanol (commonly known as alcohol). If you drink too much, it may cause the following hazards:
Paralysis of central nervous system: Excessive drinking can cause acute alcoholism, and in severe cases, it can lead to deep sleep, anesthesia, miosis, confusion and even life-threatening.
Increase the burden on the heart: dilate blood vessels, lower blood pressure, speed up the heartbeat, and increase the oxygen consumption and burden of the heart, which is easy to happen.
Damage to liver cells: Regular excessive drinking will lead to chronic alcoholism, directly damage liver cells, cause cirrhosis, and even induce liver cancer.
Causing obesity: After drinking alcohol, each gram of alcohol produces 29 kilojoules of heat, and drinking 150 grams of white wine or 1l beer can produce 2092 kilojoules of heat. Adding other foods may lead to excess calories and obesity.
Cause nutritional deficiency: after alcohol enters the human body, it consumes more elements in the metabolic process, causing calcium metabolism disorder in the human body. It is easy to get foot disease, optic neuritis and osteoporosis.
Induce some cancers: excessive drinking may be the inducement of pharyngeal cancer, colorectal cancer and so on. Researchers at home and abroad have concluded that high salt, spirits and hot drinks are the chief culprits of gastric cancer.
Affect the health of future generations: alcohol will harm germ cells and implicate future generations. Drinking alcohol in pregnant women can lead to abortion and teratogenesis. Famous ancient poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Tao Yuanming. Like wine, like to drink wine for a few days.
They left many well-known poems for future generations, but they died young; Some did not leave a clever offspring for themselves.
Li Bai was 62 years old. Guo Moruo said that Li Bai was born in wine and died in wine. Tao Gong didn't realize until his later years that "the stupidity of later generations was all caused by what was in the cup". It can be seen that drunkenness hinders prenatal and postnatal care. So it is scientific to say that "excessive drinking is the source of death".
Not many elderly people drink too much, but many people like to drink. It is not necessary to give up drinking, but it is better to drink less. Do the following five things:
Drink less: about 50 grams a day, on the principle of not causing palpitation and shortness of breath, do not drink on an empty stomach.
Abstain from drinking: don't eat or drink, drink every day and occasionally.
Drink high-quality, low-alcohol wine: wine, rice wine, yellow wine, etc. can be selected.
Pay attention to nutrition: when drinking, there are more high-protein delicacies such as fish, meat and eggs. After drinking enough, many people often stop eating, so that protein is digested by the stomach and absorbed by amino acids. If you don't replenish enough carbohydrates (rice and pasta) in time, the amino acids will be decomposed into energy to be consumed and wasted, and nutrients and vitamins will be lacking for a long time, which is harmful to your health.
Drinking with a normal heart: people often say that it is more worry-free to drown your sorrows by drinking, which makes sense. Drinking alcohol during depression can lead to mental depression.