Alcohol | Voedingsadvies El Mondo

Scientific studies (review articles) on the relationship between alcohol and disease:
One swallow does not make a summer. A famous Dutch saying that could not be any more obvious. Just because one single scientific study about a certain topic makes certain claims, it does not necessarily mean it is true. On the other hand, a review article (a collection of scientific studies on a certain topic) of randomized, placebo-controlled double blind clinical trials (RCTs) will answer the following question:
"Do taking dietary supplements make sense?" Yes for a positive conclusion and no for a negative conclusion.

One swallow does not make a summer. A famous Dutch saying that could not be any more obvious. Just because one single scientific study about a certain topic makes certain claims, it does not necessarily mean it is true. On the other hand, a review article (a collection of scientific studies on a certain topic) of cohort studies or case-control studies will answer the following question:
"Should I change my diet?".

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Alcohol or ethanol is in the small intestine for 80% and 20% in the stomach as well.
Protein-rich food, such as cheese, croquettes inhibits the absorption of alcohol.
Alcohol stimulates the production of gastrin. Gastrin stimulates the production of gastric juice in turn. In gastric juice is hydrochloric acid needed to digest proteins.
Alcohol is on an empty stomach between 15-30 minutes on a full stomach and between 1-3 hours. So eating for drinking or for stepping reads the advice!
Alcoholic beverage is the fastest recorded at an alcohol content of 20-30%. Therefore, you are drunk on sherry faster than beer!
Alcohol is first by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) is the intermediate acetaldehyde and broken down into acetaldehyde by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) broken down into carbon dioxide, water and heat. Hence you warms of drinking!
Asians have mutations in their genes 2 (ADH2 and ALDH2-gen) making them alcohol faster (100 times faster than Europeans) to acetaldehyde but very slowly break down acetaldehyde to carbon dioxide and water.
The drunkenness is caused by the intermediate acetaldehyde (at Asians continue to acetaldehyde so longer in the blood). That is the reason that Asians get drunk faster than Europeans!
Men break down acetaldehyde 50% faster than women. That's one of the reason that women are more likely to get drunk than men!
Since alcohol and the intermediate acetaldehyde toxic to the body, gets the alcohol in the liver breakdown is preferred over the fat breakdown. In the breakdown of alcohol comes in addition to heat (hence you hot and turns red from drinking) too much energy is released. People who drink a lot of alcohol and get little move, therefore rather a beer belly because their fat breakdown is low.
The positive trend between drinking beer and getting a beer belly is at over 16 drinks per week.
Alcohol lowers the blood sugar so you get hungry. At low blood sugar is aperitif hormones produced.
Alcohol acts on the neuropeptides, which play an important role in our State of mind. Personal inhibitions are faded and emotions are strengthened.
The amount of alcohol in the blood depends on the body weight and the amount of fat in the body.
Men can generally better against alcohol than women, because men on average heavier than women and acetaldehyde in the blood more quickly breaks down.
Women have a higher body fat percentage, but less body fluid. They get after the same amount of alcohol in the blood a higher percentage of alcohol than men. Women notice therefore rather the effects of alcohol than men!
The liver can store up to 80 grams of alcohol per day treaties. 80 grams of alcohol is equivalent to 2 gallons of beer or 1 bottle of wine. It is very unwise to drink this daily quantities!
Alcohol irritates the lining of the stomach and that is the reason that some have to puke at excessive alcohol consumption.
Alcohol use during pregnancy leads to stunted growth, spontaneous abortion and other problems in the unborn child. Never drink alcohol during pregnancy!
Alcohol can be given to the child via breast milk. The child sleeps less and worse.
It is therefore advisable not to drink alcohol during the borstvoedingperiode. When you want to drink alcohol anyway, then the advice to take no more than 1 drink per day and right after breast-feeding. It is then advisable then 3 hours to wait until giving the following breastfeeding. The alcohol is broken down in the meantime.
Women who drink two or more glasses of alcohol a day, run a higher risk of getting breast cancer. Smoking intensifies this harmful effect of alcohol. Hence the recommendation 1-2 glasses of alcohol per day for women!
Alcohol inhibits the hormone vasopressin and thereby increases urine production. Hence, you often have to go to the toilet and dry mouth at a hangover!
1 glass of alcohol removes 4 glasses of water.
The main cause of a hangover is moisture deficit in the brain. By moisture deficit "shrink" the brain and this causes the nerves stretched resulting in a splitting headache. Drink plenty of water during and immediately after therefore the steps!
After more than 3 glasses a hangover can occur. But the acting of a hangover can differ from person to person.
Methanol is in cheap red wine, cognac and whisky and is 10 times slower than ethanol aborted. Therefore, cheap red wine a heavy hangover than expensive red wine!
Alcohol also contains B vitamins but these quantities are so slight and so negligible. In addition, alcohol inhibits the absorption of vitamins, especially vitamin B1.
A vitamin B1 deficiency in alcoholics leads to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
Excessive alcohol consumption leads to liver diseases. The liver is the organ that breaks down alcohol. The liver removes more than 90% of the alcohol from the body while 2-5% through sweat, urine and breath leaves the body.
Excessive alcohol consumption disrupts the lipid metabolism in the liver. Disturbed lipid metabolism eventually leads to fatty liver. Fatty liver leads to liver problems.
Too much alcohol use foot-long term, throat, esophagus and liver cancer.
1-3 glasses of alcohol per day has in men from 40 years of beneficial effects on heart disease. Alcohol increases HDL the good cholesterol that among other things.
When on a label of any beverage 10% vol. alcohol is, to say that the drink contains 10 milliliters of alcohol per 100 ml of liquid.
Because 1 milliliter weighs 0.8 grams of alcohol per 100 millilitres, delivers the drink 8 ounces of alcohol. So the formula for calculating the amount of alcohol per 100 ml drink is:
X grams of alcohol per 100 ml drink = 0.8 X% alcohol on the label.
In the body is between 100-200 mg of alcohol per kg body weight per hour broken off or about 7 grams of alcohol per hour or 1-1.5 hours is required per glass.
The degradation speed of alcohol is not affected by other nutrients.
A standard glass alcoholic beverage contains 10 grams of alcohol.
All alcoholic beverages supply per standard glass about 0.2 per mil alcohol in the blood in men and 0.3% in women. The legal limit for participation in the traffic is fixed at 0.5 per mil.
A permillage of 0.5 means that contains 0.5 grams of pure alcohol 1 liter of blood.
1 grams of alcohol supplies 7 kcal.
100 ml beer delivers 45 kcal.
1 glass of wine provides 83 kcal.
The flavonoids content of red wine is higher than that of white wine. Most flavonoids in the grape is in the peel and seeds. The peel and seeds are not used in the production of white wine, with red wine.
In wine is the preservative sulfite. Sulfite can aggravate asthma. But without sulphite it is not possible to make wine. Sulfite prevents decay and also prevents alcohol is converted into acetic acid. Without sulphite tastes wine to vinegar.
Tannins give the bitter taste of wine. They belong to the allocation mechanism against bacteria and fungi. Tannin is derived from the Latin word tanning tannare what mean. Hence also be called tannins tannins.
Acids in wine making the meat is tender.
There is a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health effects.
The disadvantages of alcohol consumption are greater than the benefits!
Therefore, keep the following guidelines of the Health Council of the Netherlands:
2-3 glasses per day for men and 1-2 glasses for women.