Chinese people drink the regional differences are also very obvious, "the highest amount of alcohol in the provinces and cities," the top ten are: Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Henan, Beijing, Liaoning, Anhui, Shanxi, Jilin and Hubei.
As the saying goes, "no wine is good for a banquet", whether it's a gathering of family and friends, or a work party, it's all about the wine. The Chinese people's preference for wine has resulted in a booming consumer market for alcohol, especially during the Spring Festival, which reaches a peak every year. How many people spent their Spring Festival vacation on the drinking table? Recently released "National Alcohol Survey" results gave the answer - tens of thousands of netizens interviewed in 26 provinces and municipalities across the country are drinking every day. Some people try hard to persuade people to drink, some people play hard to drink, China's traditional culture of "a little wine to enjoy the mood", there are early signs of alienation. The serious problem hidden behind this is that people are overdrawing their health costs.
According to the World Health Organization statistics, there are 60 diseases caused by unhealthy drinking, alcohol-induced disease incidence and ** rate are higher than smoking. However, in our country, "anti-smoking" has begun to take action, "limit alcohol" is slow to see the effect. Although ** advocate thrift, also promulgated a "ban on alcohol", but we have to recognize that the country's dependence on alcohol is still very strong, and even more than on their own health concerns.
China will become the "engine" of growth for global alcohol consumption
In 2012, the liquor industry was in turmoil. From this content may be a violation of the content, has been modified. The "three public funds slimming", "plasticizer event", to ** issued a "ban", liquor market was once cold, but these did not affect people's love of liquor. The survey*** involved 285,000 netizens, 74 percent of whom still regarded baijiu as their first choice, followed by beer and red wine, which accounted for 21.5 percent and 8.8 percent respectively.
Regional differences in Chinese drinking are also evident, with Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Henan, Beijing, Liaoning, Anhui, Shanxi, Jilin and Hubei among the top 10 "top drinkers. Among them, 72% of Shandong netizens drank more than three taels of liquor at the New Year's Eve dinner, and 35% drank more than half a catty. Jiangsu followed closely behind, with 68% drinking more than three taels of white wine and 33% drinking more than half a catty. Third-ranked Hebei was not far behind, with 67% drinking more than three taels and 31% drinking more than half a catty. In terms of alcohol consumption, Shandong people still came out on top, with a daily average of 83.1 milliliters of alcohol, equivalent to 3.8 taels of 45-degree liquor or four 500-milliliter bottles of beer, and it takes five hours and 54 minutes for alcohol to be completely broken down by the body.
The survey also showed that among the people who drank liquor this Spring Festival, young and middle-aged people aged 30-50 years old became the main force, accounting for 73 percent, while consumers aged 18-29 years old accounted for 18 percent, and people aged 50 years old and above accounted for only 0.9 percent. In addition, tens of thousands of netizens in 26 provinces and municipalities drank every day during the Spring Festival vacation.
While drinking remained a staple during the long Spring Festival holiday, the average daily alcohol consumption per person dropped by 30 percent and the number of underage drinkers was halved compared with the 2012 survey results.
Despite this, China's alcohol market is still booming. Although a series of policies enacted by the state last year had a considerable impact on the high-end liquor market, and the sales of some high-end alcoholic beverages have dropped significantly, low- and medium-grade liquors are still selling well. This survey shows that liquor with a price point of three to five hundred yuan is the most popular, and red wine sales are also way up.
According to the 2011-2016 forecast report by the International Wine and Spirits Research Institute, China's growth rate for alcoholic beverages will reach 63.2 percent in the next five years, making it the "engine" of growth for global alcohol consumption.
According to the Ministry of Commerce, from New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the first month of this year, the sales of key nationally monitored retail and catering enterprises amounted to 539 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7 percent compared with the Spring Festival period in 2012, and the role of alcohol consumption in boosting the economy cannot be underestimated. The latest statistics from the Shenzhen Alcohol Industry Association show that Shenzhen people drink 10 billion yuan every year just by drinking. From this, it seems that China's alcohol consumption potential is really big.
Overdrinking, the whole body suffers
People drink heartily at the dinner table, but few people pay attention to the health of the wine glass with the flow. Beijing emergency center publicity center director Li Jianjian told the "Life Times" reporter, compared with the Spring Festival, due to drinking caused by the increase in the number of emergency vehicles, 7 days of the holiday, **** there are 207 people drunk or alcohol poisoning, the age of from teenagers to sixty or seventy years old. Jinan emergency center due to drunkenness out of the car reached 64 times, which does not include the drinking caused by disease outbreaks, trauma and so on. Zheng Kang, an attending physician at the emergency department of Peking University Third Hospital, told reporters that every year during the Spring Festival, he encounters tragedies caused by drunkenness. "On the first night of the Lunar New Year this year, a male in his 30s got drunk and fell asleep at 7:00 p.m. By 9:00 p.m., his family found that they couldn't wake him up, and when he was sent to the hospital, his breathing and heartbeat were gone, and because of asphyxia due to drunkenness and vomiting, he ultimately couldn't be resuscitated."
Professor Hong Zhaoguang, director of the Cardiovascular Disease Committee of the Chinese Association of Geriatric Health Care, visualized the drinking of alcohol into five stages. The first stage is a gentleman, drinking in moderation is good for health, happy mood, which is the best state; if you continue to drink, more than their own amount of alcohol, it becomes a peacock, like to show off their own; then drink it becomes a lion, temper tantrums, no one else; if you do not control still continue to drink, it becomes a monkey, lost self-control, the most prone to mischief; the last stage, was Hong Zhaoguang nonchalantly described as "stupid pig", confused thinking, incoherent, east and west, coma or even **. "If you regularly drink alcohol in excess, the damage to the body is beyond imagination." Hong Zhaoguang said. In addition, the U.S. study also found that long-term drinking, the whole body organs are followed by suffering.
Liver. Often drink too much alcohol on the liver is the most harmful, a short period of time a large number of alcohol caused by poisoning will make the liver tissue due to lack of oxygen and necrosis. Long-term heavy drinking will trigger alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic cirrhosis.
Stomach. Alcohol can make the gastric mucosa secrete excessive gastric acid. After drinking a lot of alcohol, the epithelial cells of gastric mucosa are damaged, inducing mucosal edema, bleeding, and even ulceration and erosion, leading to gastric hemorrhage.
Pancreas. Alcohol can induce acute pancreatitis through multiple pathways.
Brain. Research at the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany has confirmed that brain cells begin to be damaged after six minutes of drinking, and memory deteriorates with long-term alcohol consumption.
Heart. Alcohol not only leads to alcoholic cardiomyopathy, high blood pressure, etc., but also causes heart attack and brain infarction suddenly.
Bones. Excessive alcohol consumption will accelerate the loss of calcium in the body, more prone to osteoporosis and fractures.
Ears and eyes. Zhou Rongbin, director of the emergency department of the Beijing Military Region General Hospital, pointed out that drinking alcohol can damage the retina, "alcohol amblyopia". Alcohol on the surface of the mucous membrane of the human pharynx will also produce stimulation, so drinkers are more likely to suffer from pharyngitis, which can cause blockage of the Eustachian tube, tinnitus, resulting in hearing loss.
In addition, "Excessive drinking also causes cancer." Hong Zhaoguang, a renowned cardiovascular expert, added that studies have found that cancers such as esophageal and stomach cancers are most likely to target people who love to drink.
Alcohol not only destroys health, but also harms family, friends and even strangers. As with "second-hand smoke", foreign countries have long had the "second-hand alcohol" this expression. Drunkenness fights, traffic accidents caused by drunken driving are common, threatening their own lives and the lives of others; drinking to family, friends, temper tantrums, affecting the relationship between friends and relatives; parents often drink to the children have a greater impact on the children will be low self-esteem, withdrawn, serious psychological problems ...... these indirect effects, but also to the community brought the The company's business is also a major player in the market.
Changing bad drinking habits and promoting healthy drinking
Why do people still love drinking so much when it is so harmful to their health? In the view of Chi Yukai, an associate professor of psychology at South China Normal University, Chinese people like to drink and introverted, subtle traditional character. A few cups of wine, people's mental relaxation, half-awake, half-drunk, the relationship between people closer, you can "drink the truth". Because of this special role of wine, people have given it "emotional ties", "social tools" role. China's wine culture has a long history, the pastime, old age, respect for the elderly are used to express wine, so that people from the heart of wine has a special emotion. However, when the traditional wine culture encountered "no wine is not a gift, the wine table good to talk about things, to the amount of alcohol on the hero" of the modern environment, drinking is not just a pleasure so simple, persuade the wine, toast has become a means of communication.
"Persuading and toasting is a unique feature of Chinese people's drinking, with a certain utilitarian coloring, behind which is hidden the relationship culture." Yu Hai, a professor at the sociology department of Shanghai's Fudan University, said the reason why people like to talk about things at the drinking table is very often to achieve negotiation purposes. Hong Zhaoguang, a famous cardiovascular expert, said, "When drinking to the loss of self-control, should not say the words also said, should not be done also dared to do, should not sign the word to pick up the pen to sign ...... the wine glass is dry, the policy is relaxed." Therefore, many people will be happy to persuade alcohol. In addition, the habit of drinking and persuasion of alcohol also has regional characteristics, the north relative to the south a little more serious. Yu Hai said, "I have encountered in Inner Mongolia kneeling on the ground to persuade people to drink, he will not get up if you do not drink, making it difficult to accept."
In this regard, the rationality shown by Western countries is in sharp contrast to China, "Many countries around the world have problems caused by drinking, but almost no persuasion of alcohol abroad, which is not only a respect for others, but also reflects the degree of civilization of a country."
Also, two experts, Hong Zhaoguang and Yu Hai, agreed that the root cause of the Chinese people's preference for alcohol is that there is a lack of awareness of the dangers of alcohol. "According to a survey on the drinking situation of Chinese people, only 30 percent of them agree with the health concept that drinking is addictive and should be minimized or avoided.
(Original title: Mainland alcohol ranking Shandong topped the three provinces in the Northeast, none into the top three) on the issue of alcohol and health between the World Health Organization has long been an official conclusion, on the five words: "wine, the less the better." WHO international collaborative research pointed out that, under normal circumstances, men's daily intake of pure alcohol should be no more than 20 grams, women should be less, with "alcohol consumption × alcohol concentration × 0.8" this formula can be calculated alcohol intake. If drinking can not be avoided, experts suggest that it is best not to drink on an empty stomach, eat some food rich in starch and high protein before drinking, such as snacks, bread and so on. If drunkenness is serious, family members and friends should help in time. First, let the drunken person lie down quietly to rest and undo the collar; when vomiting, make the drunken person bend over and lie on the side, do not lie on the prone or supine, so as not to inhale the vomit into the windpipe, resulting in asphyxiation. If the drunkard appears to be drowsy, cold and wet skin, convulsions, coma and other symptoms, he should be sent to the hospital immediately.