Moderate drinking is beneficial to the health of the elderly. Studies have shown that drinking 5-25g a day has a protective effect on cardiovascular diseases, which is just in line with the recommendation of China Nutrition Society: the alcohol content of men drinking daily is less than 25g, and that of women is less than 15g. But eating too much is harmful to your health.
If you are in good health and have this hobby, you can drink a little wine every day. Many old people have the habit of drinking a little wine every night. Although such an example cannot prove that alcohol is harmless to the body, it also shows that if the body is tolerant and healthy, moderate drinking may not necessarily affect our life and health.
If you are a healthy old friend, you can control your drinking well. For example, if you drink a glass of pure grain liquor every night, your alcohol consumption will basically not exceed 1 2, so you can maintain this moderate drinking habit. Even if you drink it every day, it's no big deal as long as you are healthy.
Alcohol that does not drink spirits accounts for 60%, water accounts for about 38%, and the remaining 1-2% is a trace component, including substances that constitute fragrance, methanol, fusel oil and other substances that are harmful to human hearing, eyes and liver. In addition to these, high-concentration alcohol is also easy to ingest too much, which will damage the liver and bring a series of negative physiological changes.
Moderate consumption of low-alcohol liquor and small consumption of low-alcohol liquor can increase gastric juice secretion, promote food digestion and absorption, dilate blood vessels and promote blood circulation. For example, yellow rice wine contains 17 amino acids in addition to ethanol and water; Wine is rich in more than 250 components, among which resveratrol and proanthocyanidins oligomer are recognized as strong antioxidant, anticancer and cholesterol-lowering substances.
If there are taboos on drinking, it is recommended not to drink as much as possible. For the elderly, there may be another situation, that is, poor health, chronic diseases, and even taboos on drinking. In this case, if you want to keep healthy and avoid further harm from alcohol, of course, you should try to give up alcohol.
Conclusion If you don't have the habit of drinking at ordinary times, don't drink for health, because drinking can't keep health. If you are in good health and have no chronic diseases, it is quite pleasant to drink a little wine occasionally. You can continue to drink, after all, it can bring you happiness, and happiness itself is a kind of health.