Today readThat the results of the "quiet" anti-alcohol campaign, which takes place in the country in recent years is very impressive.
I quote: "in the country significantly reduced the consumption of alcohol - 15.8 liters per person (2008) to 9.7 liters of ethanol (2017), which corresponds to 11.55 liters per persons over 15 years."
Marginal, is likely to have switched to substitutes, but the overall statistics, which leads Metropolitan Tikhon Shergunov, is optimistic:
- deaths from accidental alcohol poisoning, according to Rosstat data, decreased by more than 3.5 times, and the number of patients with alcoholism - almost 40 percent.
- The number of murders (figure directly dependent on alcohol) during the same period based on 100 thousand persons fell by more than tripled.
Me as a physician is encouraged.
Alcohol is a toxic product, and also its metabolites are toxic (Products which are obtained by decomposition in the organism) - acetaldehyde and acetic acid.
With the systematic abuse of alcohol liver begins to regenerate healthy tissue is replaced by fatty tissue. It begins
called fatty liver disease, turning into steatohepatitis (inflammation), and then in cirrhosis (Irreversible organ tissue replacement by connective tissue).What doses of alcohol are safe? In my opinion, no.
Because everyone at any dose we finally get toxic vinegar.
Of course, from a glass of vodka or a glass of wine nobody dies.
But it is important to drink was not a habit.
There are official rules, the so-called conditionally safe amount of alcohol, which, thanks to the English scientist called the drink.
One drink - is 45 ml of any strong alcohol, 330 ml of beer, wine 150 ml of medium strength. Those Englishmen do not consider it shameful to increase the dose by half, and almost every day. Happiness, that women are recommended to reduce the dose by 30%.
And further.
Regularly drink significantly increases the activity of an enzyme called aromatase. * It converts the male hormone testosterone into estradiol. It is responsible for the main processes in the female body.
Than it threatens men? The female type breasts begin to increase, to grow the volume of adipose tissue, swollen prostate gland (And it may well form the tumor). Well, about the liver, you already know everything. _______________
* Division into male and female hormones probation. They have all shared, the only difference is in quantity. Men have much more testosterone in women estradiol (estrogen).
