China’s wine-making culture is well-known overseas. Wine culture has a long history of thousands of years. The ancients gathered together to drink and have fun. In modern times, as the pace of life accelerates, work entertainment and gatherings with relatives and friends are even more inseparable. Participation in drinking can shorten the distance between people, promote emotional communication, and also win business at work.

"A small drink is pleasant, but a heavy drink is harmful to the body." Moderate drinking does have certain benefits for the body. It can speed up blood circulation and clear blood vessels. However, long-term excessive drinking can also cause damage to the body, especially for the elderly. It may cause irreversible damage to the liver and induce alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis and even liver cancer.

The World Health Organization has already classified alcohol as a first-level carcinogen. After a large amount of alcohol enters the human body, acetaldehyde is produced. Acetaldehyde changes genetic cells and induces cancer. Everyone must be aware of the harm of alcohol to the body. Have a certain understanding and try to control your alcohol intake in your life, or don't drink.

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What are the dangers of drinking?

1. Damage to the gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal function of people who drink for a long time is much worse than that of normal people. This is because alcohol stimulates the gastrointestinal tract and damages gastric function. In real life, some people drink alcohol as a last resort, while others like to drink and cannot control it. After drinking a large amount of alcohol, the gastric mucosa will be stimulated by alcohol and develop lesions. People who drink high-alcohol liquor for a long time will have gastric mucosa ulcers. Will be seriously injured.

Many people suffer from gastroenteritis and gastric ulcers related to heavy drinking for a long time. If you want to avoid damage to gastric function and maintain normal gastrointestinal digestion, you should drink less alcohol as much as possible, otherwise it will be very difficult to treat serious stomach lesions. Maintain a healthy body.

2. Reduce the body’s resistance

Long-term drinking, a bad behavior, can also cause damage to the body’s immune system, destroy the body’s immune function, and affect normal functions. Need Everyone should maintain good living habits in life, especially a reasonable diet, moderate exercise, and regular work and rest.

These good lifestyles can allow the body's immune system to function normally, activate macrophages, and improve one's own immunity, which can enhance the body's ability to fight against pathogen invasion and improve the body's disease resistance.

3. Causes increased blood pressure

People who drink for a long time have higher blood pressure than those who do not drink. As you get older, your blood pressure begins to become unstable. Affected by the external environment and bad habits, your blood pressure levels fluctuate greatly, increasing your risk of hypertension. When you drink a lot of alcohol, your body is constantly stimulated by alcohol, and your blood pressure rises rapidly after drinking. , you will find that your heartbeat speeds up and your heart cannot withstand the huge pressure, resulting in chest tightness and chest pain.

In order to prevent uncontrolled blood pressure and pose a threat to physical health, you should try to reduce your alcohol intake as much as possible in the process of maintaining good health. Drinking less can prevent blood vessels from being stimulated by alcohol and causing increased pressure. , better protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health.

4. Induce liver disease

The emergence of serious liver diseases in some people is related to uncontrolled drinking. When excessive alcohol is obtained through long-term alcohol abuse, the liver, which catabolizes alcohol, The main places will be overwhelmed, and the acquired alcohol cannot be metabolized and excreted out of the body, and the liver cells will degenerate and necrosis. This is why most people who drink alcohol have poor liver health, and the incidence of alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, and fatty liver has increased.

If you want to maintain normal physiological functions of the liver, you must quit drinking as soon as possible and reduce the acquisition of harmful substances by drinking less or no alcohol. Otherwise, the liver, the "detoxifier", will become dysfunctional and your health will be compromised. Severely damaged.

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After drinking, the body has these 6 symptoms, which may mean that you are not suitable for drinking anymore, so quit drinking as soon as possible

1. Facial hair after drinking Red or pale

Blushing after drinking a lot of alcohol is an experience that many people have. It is a clinical manifestation caused by the temporary enlargement of subcutaneous tissue and capillaries in the body. Alcohol cyanase has a great impact on the body. , this type of substance converts alcohol in the blood into acetaldehyde and ether in a short period of time, inducing the rapid expansion of capillaries or subcutaneous tissue and causing facial redness.

If people who drink frequently have red or pale faces after drinking, it may be due to the lack of an enzyme in the body that breaks down alcohol. In order to avoid alcohol causing greater harm to the body, people after drinking A red or pale face is also an alarm signal sent by the body, advising you to stop drinking as soon as possible.

2. Chest pain after drinking

After the ethanol and ether components in alcohol enter the gastrointestinal tract and undergo a series of digestion and absorption, they are metabolized and excreted by the liver. A large amount of alcohol is the first to cause harm after entering the human body. Those are liver cells and gastrointestinal cells. Alcohol can also affect heart function and induce alcoholic myocarditis and alcoholic liver disease.

If you experience chest tightness, palpitations, difficulty breathing and other adverse symptoms after drinking a lot, it may be a distress signal from your heart, reminding you to quit drinking as soon as possible.

3. Diarrhea after drinking

If you have frequent diarrhea after drinking, it may be caused by drinking cold wine that stimulates rapid gastrointestinal contractions, or it may be caused by alcohol. Due to too much damage to the stomach and liver, the body cannot metabolize these alcohol components and excrete them in a timely manner.

Continuing to drink at this time may cause irreversible damage to the body. I hope you will pay attention to it and don't make fun of your own health.

4. Dizziness after drinking

Many alcoholics feel dizzy after drinking. In fact, this is not a normal phenomenon of drunkenness, but some physical problems. , especially major illnesses.

If you experience dizziness and headache after drinking alcohol and cannot get relief for a long time, it is very likely that the blood vessels are already diseased. Alcohol stimulates blood vessels, causing abnormal contraction of blood vessels, rapid rise in blood pressure, and increased blood flow to the brain, resulting in symptoms. Dizziness and headache.

5. Overweight

Excessive alcohol intake will also accelerate body obesity. Under normal circumstances, many men like to drink beer. After entering middle age, they may develop a beer belly. If you find that your weight is seriously overweight, you should quit drinking as soon as possible, because the occurrence of overweight is likely to mean that the liver has been damaged by alcohol and there are problems with the internal metabolism of the body, which is why excessive obesity occurs. Once hope appears Everyone, quit your alcohol addiction as soon as possible.

6. Decrease in alcohol consumption

Some people like to drink when they are young and can drink alcohol. They believe that alcohol capacity can be developed. The more they drink, the more alcohol they drink. Some people think that they are the ancestors who will never get drunk after a thousand cups.

If you suddenly find that your alcohol consumption has dropped significantly recently, and you feel dizzy, nauseous and vomiting when you drink, and you become seriously drunk, it may be that alcohol has caused great damage to your liver, causing liver function problems. Abnormalities and the tendency to get drunk may be a reminder that you are no longer suitable for drinking and should quit drinking as soon as possible.