People prove that drinking is moderately incredibly useful.But what does "moderately" mean?How to understand when the damage to health from alcohol occurs?In fact, even scientists recognize - alcohol in certain (small) doses is useful, take an example of the same red wine in which antioxidants, vitamins and trace elements can be detected.The harm occurs when alcohol damages the internal organs of a person, and this will certainly happen if you drink more than 170 g of alcohol more than 1 time in 8 days.
So can you drink moderately?What risks does a person who drinks alcohol encounter?At what point does a moderate dose end and alcohol abuse begins?
All the most important thing about what to drink is moderately
“The main thing is to drink moderately,” often thinks a person who is already in one step from terrible and destructive alcoholism.
The dose, after the reception of which a person’s liver is in serious danger, is 90 g of pure ethanol per day.For a minute, this is 285 ml of vodka (a little more than a glass of vodka).The harm to the human brain comes from a much smaller dosage - 19 g of ethanol (or 60 ml of vodka) in 24 hours.And this applies to absolutely healthy people with normal and working liver, healthy brain, kidneys and other organs.
Now imagine what awaits a person if he will drink a glass of vodka day after day:
- Dependence on alcohol will begin to develop, which is very difficult to get rid of;
- Six months later, he will begin to suffer on such dependence on alcohol in the presence of hereditary disposition to this disease;
- This trouble will manifest in 36 months (3 years) in the absence of a hereditary predisposition.
- After a couple of months, there will be a strong desire to regularly increase the dose.
If we assume that a person has suffered a significant disease (for example, viral hepatitis), then a moderate dose for him will be 2, or even 3 times smaller.
It is clear: moderately drinking - how much can you use so as not to cause trouble for your own body?How much can you drink to restore all body systems?
All calculations are carried out based on the fact that a healthy person processes alcohol in the amount of 170 g per day.The result is curious results and conclusions:
- If a person takes into 1 day 170 g of pure alcohol, then the next 8 days he should refrain from drinking any (even weaker) alcohol.
- The permissible (acceptable) dose per month is 586 grams.
- In other words, you can drink a little more than one and a half classic bottle of vodka per month.
If it turns out that you have to drink more than 170 grams in one holiday, then you need to increase the period of time between alcohol, and next time to drink alcohol, say, not after 8 days, but after 10-12.This will significantly reduce the harm and negative consequences of alcohol.
What conclusion to come in such a situation: to drink much less often or drink moderately?Specialists are more inclined to the first option.Less commonly, it means 1 time per month and no more than that.Although some argue that with the correct observance of the dosage, it does not matter much, as a person will drink often.
Wine: useful or not?
Moderately drinking people, at least those people who call themselves so, insist on the next - to consume red dry wine is extremely useful.Their justification is based on the fact that the wine contains a strong antioxilter, prevents cancer.
On the contrary, scientists' studies indicate the following: drinking wine in large quantities is harmful.It contains certain substances, the excess of which will involuntarily cause complications, so such a drink will be harmful.
The advantages of wine need to know the reasonable facts:
- The drink contains an antioxidant of resveratrol, which is also in grape juice, only in much smaller quantities.
- There are valuable trace elements that improve human health.
- An acceptable dose for a person with good health is approximately 3 glasses of wine in 7 days (450 ml of a drink).
It is impossible not to mention that talking about the effectiveness of red wine in the treatment of atherosclerosis turned out to be only rumors, since modern studies prove the opposite.
It turns out that it is useful to accept wine, but only when you observe the established standards, and do not exceed the safe dosage of the drink used.
Is it allowed to drink beer in moderate quantities?
Another drink, except for wine, about which many are repeating that it is useful is to beer.Yes, indeed, non -pasteurized or live beer is able to benefit the body, but here there are certain restrictions, after which the drink becomes harmful to humans.600 ml per day is a completely acceptable norm, although this norm is stipulated, since taking even a small amount of beer for several years leads to the development of the third stage of alcohol dependence.
Moderate beer has a favorable effect:
- Cosmetic effect on the condition of the skin.
- Normalizes blood pressure.
- Calms the human nervous system.
- Supports the necessary cholesterol level.
It is important to remember that beer addiction progresses secretly and little, which is why it is difficult to notice at the initial stage.Subsequently, the same disease is more difficult to treat than, for example, a dependence caused by vodka abuse or other alcohol.Therefore, to prove that beer is a safe alcoholic drink is fundamentally wrong.
Stimulating effect of moderate doses of alcohol
As for the rest of the alcohol, here the benefits of moderate use can be obtained, given the so -called, the effect of paradoxical stimulation.
What is the meaning of this principle?This is the stimulating effect of small doses of the effects of those substances that cause a toxic effect in increased doses.In simple words - if alcohol in large doses harm the body, then in a small amount can have a stimulating effect.
This effect is obtained by not moderately drinking groups of people, but those that use just insignificant (about 50 ml of vodka 2 times in 7 days) dose of alcohol, and no more gram.
What is better: to drink with restraint or not to drink alcohol at all?
And now what do you order to do, knowing all these figures that say either the advantages of alcohol, then about its harm?Is it worth it to quit drinking forever, or still, you need to drink moderately for health?
Studies conducted earlier and testified to the benefits of moderate drinks were erroneous.Today, scientists from the leading countries of the world started talking about this.
Those experiments showed this result: the drinkers restrained and in moderation were much healthier than absolutely non -nonsense.But what is the catch?The fact that everyone in a row was recruited in the category of teetotalers: people with already poor health, those people who used a lot in their youth, those who could not drink alcohol for medical reasons.
Thus, the result was unreliable.Scientists conducted a number of additional studies, fixing their mistake, and it turned out that completely nonsense are healthier than those who use in moderation, and the former live much longer than the second.
Are there any benefits from alcohol and is it worth drinking moderately?
One of the studies conducted in 1999 by a scientist was demonstrated that drinking alcohol in moderation benefits for the human cardiovascular system.A similar study was conducted in the same year when the benefits of alcohol for the human brain were proved.
The results of the experiments were as follows:
- Those patients who have learned to drink in moderate doses have less often encountered myocardial infarction.They drank from 14 to 56 g of pure alcohol daily (less than 1 cup of vodka).Also, people who adhere to moderate doses have less often developed an intelligence disorder.
- Those who made a bold decision not to drink at all, the risk of heart attack increased slightly, and dementia arose a little more often.
- The most noticeable health problems were experienced by those who often consumed alcohol in large quantities.In such situations, myocardial infarction occurred, and more often brain diseases were manifested.
After such research results, several topical questions immediately arise in the head: can an alcoholic drink moderately?So, it means that it is still better to drink alcohol a little bit than to become a teetotaler completely?
But here it is important to mention another experiment performed by scientists in 2008, which showed a completely different effect - patients who were moderately consumed by alcohol more often faced serious ailments of the brain than those who completely abandoned alcohol.
Conclusions: Can I drink with restraint?
As you can see, the experiments have demonstrated completely different results, which has nothing anomalous, because the health and how long a person will live on Earth is affected by many factors, except for alcohol intake: this is daily nutrition, and lifestyle, working conditions, climate.That is why one specific study cannot give 100% objective information.
You can say only one thing - there is the benefits of drinking alcohol in small quantities, but this benefit is not particularly noticeable against the background of the danger that awaits you in the case of taking alcohol.In addition, the harm from alcohol is manifested instantly, and scientists and doctors easily find it, conducting a person’s examination.
How to drink moderately and is it worth doing this at all?If you really care about your own health, it is better to completely forget about alcohol.Use only what brings real benefits and does not contain harm so that you no longer have any doubts.