As the saying goes, there is no separation between tobacco, alcohol and tea, but people often say that smoking and drinking are harmful to health, while drinking tea is beneficial. So the question is, can drinking tea offset the harm of smoking and drinking?

1. Which one is more harmful to drinking or smoking?

Research teams from the Universities of Southampton and Bangor in the UK have conducted a joint study, according to the UK Institute and National According to the official data from the Bureau of Statistics, a comparative analysis of the risk of death caused by smoking and drinking found: Increases of 1% and 1.4% are equivalent to 5 cigarettes per week for men and 10 cigarettes per week for women.

Consumption of 3 bottles of red wine per week (more than twice the recommended alcohol intake) was associated with a 1.9% and 3.6% increased cancer risk for men and women, respectively, a risk equivalent to that of men 8 cigarettes per week and 23 cigarettes per week for women.

Simply list the formula:

1 bottle of red wine=5~10 cigarettes< /strong>

3 bottles of red wine=8~23 cigarettes

At present, many experts suggest thatQuit smoking and limit alcohol, “Quit smoking and limit alcohol” is the world One of the “four cornerstones of health” advocated by the World Health Organization, alcohol is a suggestion to limit, and smoking is a suggestion to quit completely. It is very clear which is the most harmful. Of course, this is not to encourage everyone to drink alcohol. Drinking and smoking are harmful!

1. Drinking alcohol, one bite hurts the whole body

Alcohol has long been listed by WHO as a group 1 carcinogen, ingested alcohol and the body More than 200 health problems are associated with alcohol consumption, which poses health risks.

Alcohol is one of the important causes of liver cancer, and it also increases the risk of breast cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer and other cancers. And alcohol will bring adverse stimulation to the cranial nerves, pancreas and cardiovascular, which can easily cause functional damage.

At the same time, long-term alcohol intake will also affect normal life expectancy, Drinkers around 40 years old drink >350g per week , the life expectancy may be reduced by 5 years; if the alcohol consumption is maintained between 200 and 350g, the life expectancy may be reduced by 2 years..

2. Smoking harms others as well as yourself

The smoke produced by smoking , not only will threaten the health of smokers, but also make people around them forced to smoke second-hand and third-hand smoke. Smoke contains 69 known carcinogens. Long-term smoking can damage lung cilia, easily cause lung disease and even lung cancer, and increase the risk of esophageal cancer, throat cancer and oral cancer.

People who are forced to smoke second-hand and third-hand smoke around them also have a 20-30% increased risk of lung cancer, asthma, stroke, and cardiovascular disease was also significantly increased. In addition, secondhand smoke may affect children’s development and increase the risk of respiratory diseases.

Smoking and drinking can pose such a big threat to health, and drinking tea is a very A good health care method, can drinking tea while smoking and drinking have a certain effect on reducing harm?

2. Can drinking tea offset the harm of smoking and drinking?

It is true that tea contains some substances that have the effects of refreshing, anti-aging, improving immunity, lowering blood lipids, anti-inflammatory, anti-virus and anti-cancer, but this does not mean that drinking tea can offset Harm from smoking and drinking.

Professor Li Liming’s team from Peking University School of Public Healthhave conducted a study on this The health data of 450,000 people were selected and the subjects were followed for an average of 10 years.

The results found that in people who did not smoke and drink less than 15 grams of alcohol per day, the overall risk of cancer was significantly different from that of lung, rectal, liver, breast and cervical cancer. On the risk of cancer, drinking tea every day does not play a protective role. In addition, the incidence of cancer increased with the increase of smoking and alcohol consumption, and there was no significant relationship between tea consumption and tea consumption.

For people who smoke and drink, it is unrealistic to rely on drinking tea to offset the harm. The best way is to quit smoking and drinking.

89 years oldChen Zongmao, is the first in the field of Chinese tea researchAcademician of the Academy of Engineering, who has studied tea for nearly 60 years.He believes that tea does have health care effects, but he cannot promote that tea is medicine ! The efficacy of tea should be viewed rationally.

Academician Chen Zongmao said, tea has a significant anti-cancer effect in animal models, but in human epidemiological studies It did not reach a significant level, so this effect still has a question mark, and there is no clear conclusion.

Xiao Ai hereby advises people who smoke and drink to stop making any excuses for not quitting smoking and limiting alcohol. Drinking tea will not counteract the harm. It is recommended to quit smoking and drinking as soon as possible.

Smoking and drinking are both risk factors for cancer. When cancer comes, our body will send out some “warning signals”. If these abnormalities can be found in time, early detection can be achieved Treatment has certain benefits for improving the treatment effect and prolonging the survival period.

Three, these symptoms appear on the body, I hope you will stop smoking and drinking

1. Cough, chest pain< /strong>

Early-stage lung cancer generally has no obvious symptoms, and most patients are discovered incidentally during physical examination. When it develops to the middle and late stage, the patient will have abnormal symptoms such as irritating dry cough, chest pain and shortness of breath.

In addition to people who like tobacco and alcohol, for some long-term smokers, asbestos workers and patients with chronic bronchitis, regular chest X-rays, low-dose Spiral CT or lung cancer susceptibility gene screening test.

2. A foreign body is felt when swallowing

When esophageal cancer develops to a certain extent, It will cause patients to have obvious swallowing foreign body sensation and choking, which will appear repeatedly and intermittently, and some patients will have this symptom for several days. For years, gastroscopy is recommended for screening esophageal cancer.

3. Pain in liver area< /p>

Right upper quadrant discomfort and pain are often the first symptoms of liver cancer, and patients will gradually develop with the progression of the diseaseBloating, loss of appetite, jaundice and weight loss and other symptoms. In addition, patients with hepatitis and liver cirrhosis themselves are high-risk groups of liver cancer. It is recommended to perform liver color Doppler ultrasound and serum alpha-fetoprotein examination regularly.

4. Epigastric pain, loss of appetite

The onset of gastric cancer is relatively insidious, with approximately More than 70% of gastric cancer patients have no obvious symptoms in the early stage. When the lesion develops to a certain extent, the patient will gradually develop abnormal symptoms such asindigestion, loss of appetite, upper abdominal pain, and many people will These symptoms were mistaken for gastritis, gastric ulcers and were not taken seriously enough.

It is recommended that people who find these abnormal symptoms should undergo gastroscopy and gastric cancer susceptibility gene screening in time, especially those with chronic gastric diseases and gastric ulcers.

There is a strong relationship between the occurrence of cancer and some bad habits in our life, especially smoking and drinking, which increase the risk of many cancers. If you want to reduce the risk of cancer, quitting smoking and drinking as soon as possible is king! #HealthStarProgram# #Health2022#

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