Of course, you have seen such headlines many times in the media: "Scientists have proven that drinking a glass of wine a day can extend life. " For the following reasons, this is unbelievable.
First of all, scientists do not "prove" anything. They test hypotheses under certain conditions and draw correct conclusions with a certain probability.
For example, a particular study might test the relationship between alcohol and death in white European men. As a result, even though it turns out that drinking a glass of wine a day is associated with a higher life expectancy, this is not a causal fact.
Perhaps the third factor is that everything has to be "blame"-for example, income level: rich people in Europe can afford a glass of wine, good food and good medicine every day. Or confused by causality: it's not that alcohol can improve health, but relatively healthy people can drink a little. Finally, in such research, there are still many unknown reasons for the ignorance of women, people of other races and nationalities. Therefore, there is no way to extend the results of a study to everyone.
The second point is that even if you analyze all the studies, it turns out that there is no link between low-dose drinking and improved health. There are scientific methods such as meta-analysis-scientists collect all sufficient research on a particular topic, summarize them and draw conclusions. In the meta-analysis, the errors of individual scientific works are eliminated, and the conclusions are more or less applicable to each of us. Therefore, according to the meta-analysis, there is no difference in the health status of people who rarely drink alcohol and people who do not drink alcohol at all.
Therefore, a small dose of alcohol-no more than 10 grams of ethanol per day (about a glass of wine, beer or a glass of vodka) may not improve your health in some way, but it will not make your life worse.
Wait, but alcohol and a healthy lifestyle are incompatible!
I will tell you more-modern life is usually not compatible with a healthy lifestyle. If you live in a city and drive, you will no longer lead a healthy lifestyle.
For example, in a car, there are so many carcinogens in the air-vodka dreams never want! Running on a busy highway is more deadly than 20 grams of pure alcohol. Also, if you also smoke, it doesn't matter what you drink.
This does not mean that you can drink as much as you like, because everything will be lost.
"Beer" alcoholism is worse than "vodka". There is no "beer", "vodka", "pynonoir" and other types of alcoholism. It has only one type-dependence on ethanol.
For this dependence, it does not matter what form alcohol enters the body. The other thing is that over time, the demand for ethanol from alcohol continues to grow. It has been pointed out that due to the limitation of the size of the stomach, a person can no longer drink so much beer or wine to reach the "state". Therefore, most alcoholics end up choosing vodka-in terms of price/quality/effect, this is the ideal choice for them.
It can be said that switching to vodka can show that addiction has far exceeded. Few people start drinking spirits right away-usually, "light wines" are usually used at the beginning, such as beer and wine. However, just like there is no "light drugs", there is no "mild alcohol"-any drink can cause addiction-and it is not far from vodka.
If you drink, don't mix drinks!
Once again, the body doesn't care what it drinks from ethanol. The severity of the poisoning (and subsequent hangover) depends only on how much pure alcohol you drink. Mix, don't mix-if you are too busy, the morning is still not good anyway.
Of course, there are nuances-some beverages contain "heavy" substances, the same as methanol. The most common is found in products, especially in homemade products. Its raw materials can be used as fruit-berries, rich in pectin-pears, apples, cherries (to a lesser extent)-grapes. Now, if you mix vodka and Calvados, in the morning, you will feel the effects of ethanol and methanol. Cognac and beer are about the same-the hangover will only become more "brighter" and have the "flavor" of the toxic substances typical of the two beverages. Therefore, if possible, it is best not to mix them. just in case.
When you have a cold, you can drink 100 grams to heat up
You can't do the opposite, you can even freeze more until death.
Alcohol will dilate blood vessels in the skin and release heat. If you enter the room from the cold and drink a little alcohol, it can help you warm up faster: the blood vessels will expand, but the heat will be retained because the surroundings are also very hot. However, if you drink alcohol on the street, the heat generated through the swollen blood vessels will quickly leave your body-and you will freeze more.
Due to this "special effect" of alcohol, drunk people will freeze to death on the street even at a temperature of +20°C: the air and ground temperature is lower than the temperature of the human body, and the human body will quickly emit excessive heat and excess heat. Cold life, and thus death.
Alcohol is a good sleeping pill
Alcohol actually weakens brain activity, making you feel sleepy and falling asleep quickly. However, such a dream is likely to be short-lived and fruitless.
The effects of alcohol are similar to some sleeping pills. You fall asleep very quickly, but the sleep phase is disturbed, and you can wake up in the middle of the night-not falling asleep again until morning.
"Drunk" sleep is not physiological, incomplete, and it cannot bring normal rest. Therefore, it is not recommended to use alcoholic beverages as sleeping pills, and it is generally recommended not to drink alcohol immediately before going to bed.