Lao Li is 53 years old this year. He has been working as a foreman on the construction site. In his spare time, he drinks a little wine and talks with his fellow workers. According to his habit, he has to drink two glasses every day, and his heart is happy. But my daughter has always felt that drinking like this will hurt her health. Some time ago, she shared a lot of articles with him, all reminding him that drinking will hurt her health and may cause cancer.
But Lao Li has always believed that what the ancients said was right, “A small drink is good, and a big drink will hurt your health.” According to his alcohol intake, 2 taels of liquor a day is not much at all. Compared to those on the construction site who don’t drink a drop of alcohol, he may be healthier. Is it really healthier to have two drinks a day?
Drinking 2 taels of white wine every day, can it be healthy?
There have been news reports that traditional Chinese liquor has anti-virus, anti-cancer, and health benefits. And many drinkers read such reports and drink with confidence. However, more research results confirm that the claim that liquor can fight cancer is pure rumor.
WHO found that ethanol in alcohol will be decomposed into acetaldehyde through the digestive function of the human liver and stomach. This substance can damage the liver, stimulate nerves, blood vessels and other organs and tissues in the brain, and may even enter the DNA of liver cells, causing irreversible damage to cells. In other words, drinking alcohol may lead to an increased risk of cancer and more diseases.
But some people said that I just drank two less glasses, and I didn’t get drunk at all. Wouldn’t it hurt my health?
In fact, the Lancet has long stated that there is no safe dose for drinking alcohol. That is to say, as long as you drink alcohol, whether it is two drinks a day, or the occasional drunkenness, it may have adverse health effects, but the degree of this effect is different.
So, people who drink 2 taels of white wine every day should be healthier than people who don’t drink alcohol.
Many drinkers just look healthy, but in fact their organs have long been damaged by alcohol.
People who drink alcohol for a long time may be injured in 4 parts of the body
Stomach: Gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, etc.
After drinking alcohol, the gastrointestinal mucosa will be directly stimulated, and the human body will begin to secrete gastric acid. Many people experience acid reflux, nausea and vomiting after drinking alcohol, which is also related to stomach irritation. If you already have chronic gastric disease, it will aggravate the damage to the gastric mucosa, more likely to induce gastric ulcers and other diseases, and even increase the risk of gastric mucosal cell lesions.
Liver: alcoholic liver, fatty liver
The human body mainly relies on the liver to metabolize alcohol, and the long-term stimulation of liver cells by acetaldehyde will also increase the incidence of lesions. risk. In people who drink for a long time, it will cause problems such as alcoholic liver and fatty liver. In addition to metabolizing alcohol, the liver also needs to metabolize and break down fat. After drinking alcohol, you cannot “do two things with one heart”, you can only store fat in liver cells first, which is more likely to induce fatty liver.
Brain: Alzheimer’s, etc.
Stimulated by alcohol, the brain and heart are always excited state, especially the brain. Neurons in the brain are excited. Even if people have stumbled into sleep, the brain is still highly excited. This can make people wake up very tired the next day. In the long-term, the neurons in the brain are also stimulated, and the risk of Alzheimer’s is higher.
Blood vessels: chronic metabolic diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia
Alcohol will directly stimulate the abnormal contraction of blood vessels and cause damage to the blood vessel walls. The middle-aged and elderly people are likely to be affected by aging, and their blood vessels are more prone to disease. If they continue to drink alcohol, they will only increase the risk of vascular disease, and are more likely to induce metabolic diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Coronary heart disease, Risk of diseases such as myocardial infarction.
For the sake of health, people should quit alcohol as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary threats to the four parts of the body caused by long-term drinking. If you are also used to drinking two glasses of white wine every day, remember to quit drinking earlier.
There are many folk sayings about drinking, “wine is the essence of grain, the more you drink, the younger you will be”, “wine is the master of a hundred medicines” and so on. These statements are actually just making excuses for the old alcoholics. People who can really get healthy because of drinking are very rare.
For Chinese people, drinking alcohol will face a higher risk of injury, because many Chinese people are lack of aldehyde dehydrogenase in their bodies. This enzyme can participate in the metabolic decomposition of acetaldehyde. Without the help of this enzyme, the ability of the human body to metabolize alcohol will also be greatly affected.
If you’re blushing and dizzy when you drink alcohol, it’s likely a deficient aldehyde dehydrogenase. Such people are not suitable for drinking, and it is likely that excessive acetaldehyde accumulates in the human body, causing acetaldehyde poisoning and threatening health. Don’t drink if you can.
All in all, alcohol is not a good thing for the human body. Whether you drink for health or to relieve depression, you should stay away from alcohol. People who are accustomed to drinking 2 glasses of liquor a day will be more likely to induce diseases and threaten their health after a long time. If you can quit drinking as soon as possible, I believe that health benefits will also reap.
References:
1. Don’t drink alcohol! The latest 500,000 Chinese study in The Lancet: Drinking alcohol increases the risk of stroke · When healthyReport Client · 2019-04-15
2. Rumor: Moderate drinking is good for cardiovascular health · China Family News · 2021-08-15
3. Genome study of ten thousand people confirmed : In the matter of “alcohol”, the Chinese have lost genetically · Life Times · 2020-05-22