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Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Alcohol

Drug is a central nervous system depressant that gradually inhibits the functions of the brain, affecting self-control and producing euphoria and disinhibition, as can be confused with a stimulant.

Alcohol in excess can cause short-term effects such as alcohol poisoning, coma and even cause death, also contributes to risk behaviors, and alcohol inhibitions and causes a false sense security is therefore related to accidents Traffic and labor. In the long term as well as causing social and family conflicts, the health of an alcoholic is deteriorating rapidly, may have hypertension, gastritis, liver cirrhosis, heart disease, cancer, aggression and psychosis and other illnesses.

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Health Risks of Drinking Alcohol

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Health Risks of Drinking Alcohol – Drinking alcohol is a common social practice in our society. More than 50 percent of adults in the United States have had alcoholic drinks in the last 30 days. Binge drinking is excessive and may cause health problems like heart disease and increased risk of injury. Statistics show that between 2001 and 2005 approximately 79 000 adults died of wounds that can be caused by excessive alcohol use.

Excessive alcohol consumption is defined as more than two drinks a day for men and more than one drink a day for women. Drinking party is considered more than five drinks in a single occasion for men and more than four drinks for women. Approximately five percent of adults drink too much and 15 percent of the drinking party. It is not known exactly how many underage drinkers are also alcohol abuse.

Alcohol is produced by the formation of sugar, yeast and starch. It is found in products such as beer, wine, and liquor. Alcohol has different effects on the body, depending on the type and amount consumed. Standard drink consists of about.6 ounces of alcohol. Reactions to alcohol also varies based on many other factors such as age, gender, race, physical condition, amount of food consumed before drinking, how fast the alcohol is consumed, the use of drugs and prescription drugs and family history of abuse. (more…)

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Women, alcohol and cancer

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

A study of nearly 1.3 million British women provides more evidence on moderate alcohol consumption and increased risk in a variety of cancers.

The British researchers surveyed middle-aged women with breast cancer in the clinics, about their health habits and followed up for seven years.

A quarter of women reported no alcohol use and most of the remainder reported that the average consumption was one drink per day.

The researchers compared to light drinkers of two or fewer drinks a week, with people who drank more.

Each extra drink per day increased the risk of breast cancer, rectum and liver, from the University of Oxford, researchers report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The type of alcoholic beverages such as, wine, beer or spirits did not matter, defined earlier research that alcohol consumption was associated with esophageal and oral cancer, only when the drinkers were smokers.

Furthermore, moderate drinkers actually had a lower risk of thyroid cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and renal cell cancer.

For a woman the risk is manifested by a small total alcohol in developed countries, about 118 of every 1,000 women develop any of these types of cancer and every extra daily drink added 11 breast cancers, plus four other types.

But in the whole population, 13 percent of cancer cases in Britain may be attributable to alcohol, this being the conclusion of the study.

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Excessive consumption of alcohol causes pancreatitis

Friday, April 16th, 2010

pancreatitisPancreatitis is a condition that is serious and is caused by excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages increased by the presence of stones in the bile duct, when obstructed distal common bile duct call generates an inflammation of the pancreas. Usually the inflammation of the pancreas is presented in acute form, while in its chronic form there is no cure available.

As symptoms of the disease may be mentioned the intense abdominal pain that occurs in the pit of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, the patient having an attack of severe constipation.

In 80% of cases the disease has a benign course and the person ceases to have discomfort in a period of 3 to 7 days, the rest is an evolution that leads to disease state of “serious” if it takes the form early intensive treatment.

Other causes that can lead to suffering from pancreatitis is the fact that a person suffers a car accident and the seat belt injury blow produces a level of pancreatic tissue, which brings with inflammation. (more…)

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Autotest Alcoholism

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Ask yourself and answer honestly:

1. Do you drink alone?

2. Do you feel obsessed by the desire to drink at certain times of day?

3. Would you like a drink in the morning?

4. Have you suffered amnesia because of drinking?

5. Have you had financial difficulties because of drinking?

6. Commits “drink to your position or business?

7. Is it the drink because of absence from his job?

8. Do you drink to reaffirm its confidence in itself?

9. Do you drink to forget worries or trouble?

10. Receive your family you’re drinking? (more…)

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Benefit Of Alcohol

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Benefit Of AlcoholDementia: Two European studies have shown that wine can preserve cognitive function of older people. The scientists concluded that moderate consumption of wine has a prophylactic effect that can have impact on Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Views: Researchers have reported in a recent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that people who drink wine in moderation are less likely to develop Macala degeneration related to age.

Colds: Experts from five universities found that people who drank two glasses of red wine a day were 44% less likely to get colds than abstainers. (more…)

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10 Benefits Of Drinking Alcohol

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Benefits Of DrinkingAccording to a study conducted by British Cardiovascular Society at health centers in Spain, drinking alcohol in moderation, every day reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in men. Moderate is defined as 2 to 3 cups per day for men and 1 to 2 in women.

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Benefits of moderate drinking:

1.Moderate consumption is heart-healthy properties. In this study analyzed the drinking habits of more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women between 29 and 69 years. The record was for 10 years. The result was that a moderate intake of alcohol, was able to reduce up to 50% of heart disease in men. In women did not give the same results as British Cardiovascular Society (more…)

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Alcohol For Brain

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

heroin bindsAmphetamines stimulate dopamine production in the cells, cocaine blocks an enzyme called DAT whose normal function is to absorb dopamine neurons that discharge being the consequence of this blockage, a general increase of dopamine in the brain.

heroin binds to the neurotransmitter receptor and directly stimulates Refugio channels, nicotine and alcohol trigger a complex “chemical cascade which raises dopamine levels and there is also an unknown chemical in cigarettes that increases dopamine levels by blocking the enzyme MAO B. (more…)

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Beneficial Alcohol for the Heart

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Beneficial AlcoholIn the latest edition of Time magazine, Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes about the effects of alcohol consumption in excess of our cardiovascular system. One study involving a total of 25 patients showed that university excessive alcohol consumption is associated with high levels of a protein called CRP

Multiple clinical and epidemiological studies find that individuals who have a high level of CRP in the blood are more at risk for a heart attack in the future. Thus, according to this study, excess alcohol consumption could be associated with a higher degree of inflammation in the arteries of the heart (which is manifested in a high level of CRP) and an increased risk of heart attack . Learn more about CRP (more…)

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Spanish Wine Without Alcohol In Project

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Alcohol In ProjectApproaching the French alcohol-free wine producers are two young biologists of Santiago , your company, Economize IDI has developed non-alcoholic wine but not yet finished, although they have enriched with poly phenols for benefits on health, have much to do to make wine after drying out, do not miss the taste.

The truth is that it is a great bet, will be the first alcohol-free wine of our country, as we said, already developed in France. Certain diseases, pregnancy, card spot or religion among other things, are factors that limit the consumption of alcohol and wine accordingly. (more…)

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