Why can alcohol ruin our health?

Alcohol, one of the most popular stimulants, has its pros, but you can see the multitude of its cons.

Alcohol abuse can lead to many unwanted health side-effects!

 

 

• Excessive and prolonged alcohol consumption leads to alcoholic fattening of liver, preventing liver cells from performing their functions
• Excessive drinking increases the risk of cancer of the upper digestive tract
• Drinking alcohol in combination with smoking increases the toxicity and carcinogenicity of both drugs, depending on the type of cancer and gender even several dozen times
• Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (including heart attack and stroke)
• Alcohol can cause hypoglycemia, especially dangerous in people with diabetes and abnormal glucose
• Alcohol consumption can increase insulin resistance, leading to a disease called insulin resistance

Also refuting the popular myth that alcohol is calorie-free and you can drink it without restrictions when on a reduction diet, I strongly deny. It is not even about the recovery time after consuming the drink, which significantly strains our body. It is about the frequent inability to continue with a healthy diet the next day. It is also worth noting that its calorific value, and often meals accompanying it, have consequences…

Meals consumed along with alcohol reduce its absorption, but these are often high-calorie and processed meals that we should avoid. In addition, in alcoholic beverages we can often find a lot of additives, colourings that can negatively affect our body, as well as significantly increase the caloric content of the drink itself.

a glass of beer - 245 kcal / non-alcoholic - 105 kcal
a glass of red wine - 102 kcal
a glass of red semi-sweet wine 144 kcal / non-alcoholic - 24 kcal
a glass of vodka - 55 kcal