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Is it possible to consume alcohol and be wholesome? Drinking alcohol can be good as well as harmful for your health. It actually depends the quantity of alcohol you are drinking.
In accordance to many research, reasonable amount of alcohol is quite beneficial for your health. Reasearch suggests men and women who take one or two alcoholic drinks per day have a lower death rate from coronary heart disease than abstainers. The weekly consumption of alcohol for men should be 21 units and for women, it should be 14 units ( 1 unit equals to 8g of alcohol). Consuming little amount of alcohol can increase your “good cholesterol” levels provided you are eating healthy foods and doing regular physical activities. Alcohol can stimulate the appetite, so it is always better to drink alcohol with some food.
Do you have any idea what is actually alcohol? Alcohol is produced when grains, vegetables or fruits are fermented. Through the process of fermentation, yeast or bacteria changes the amount of sugar in the food into alcohol. When we drink alcohol, it gets absorbed into our bloodstream. And from there, it affects the central nervous system such as brain or spinal cord. This might changes the person’s perceptions, vision, hearing, movement or emotions. But if you are consuming the moderate amount of alcohol, you can feel more relaxed or less anxious.
Excessive drinking over a period of years may lead to a condition called as Alcohol Dementia, which can affect your memory, learning and other cognitive skills. Alcohol drinking can also damage your liver and thus cause liver cirrhosis.
Too much drinking might disrupts your sleep too. You will become more drowsy and sleepy on account of excessive drinking. However, within a few hours, the effects of the alcohol will wake you up. It is advisable to consume lots of water after a hangover in order to rehydrate the body again. Drinking alcohol piles on the calories that can cause obesity and risk of diabetes.
The bottom line is that to get any healthy benefits from alcohol, we must drink responsibly.
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