Use your head: Being heady is not cool.
"Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
" - George Washington Henny Youngman once said, "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
" But this should not be the correct option for you.
Have a look at the findings below.
oOver 100,000 Americans die of excessive alcoholism every year.
oAlmost 14 million Americans seek medical help for alcohol related disorders.
oOver 18% of Americans face alcohol related abuse in some point in their life.
o65% of the young adults were introduced to alcoholism by their friends and family.
oMen across the world are 4 times more addicted to alcohol than women.
What is your comment on this? Some regard alcohol as the most essential component of fun.
The teetotalers are dowdies to them.
They do have fun after consuming alcohol.
But what kind of fun it is and how long does it stay? They can not have control on their actions and conducts and get entangled in most of the unscrupulous activities.
Not only that, they also risk their lives while being heady.
And all studies have shown the lethal effects of alcohol.
You not only will be robbed off your health, your money will also be drained off you.
If one gets too addicted to it, he finds it almost impossible to get out of its clutch.
It is not a very rosy picture what a person can (rather can not) do, when he is heady.
The inside mechanism When someone drinks alcohol, it goes to the stomach, irritates it, and the stomach releases acid.
Though a small percentage is transformed chemically, the majority goes down the intestine through the pyloric valve.
Too much of drinking causes the swelling of the valve, which results in vomiting.
This is another height of embarrassment.
You can argue that a measured amount of alcohol helps to keep the body fit.
But it is not universally true.
People above sixty should not drink more than a glass a day and pregnant women should stay away from alcohol, if possible.
It is not advisable for the non drinkers in order to health improvement.
It is a menace Some resort to alcohol to get a temporary relief from the stress and tension of everyday life.
If they can not find solution to their problems, they get more addicted, and gradually, alcohol starts to control them.
This point is too difficult to get out of.
Washington has said, "An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
" When a person tastes alcohol for the first time in life, he feels the painful irritation in his throat and stomach.
But, slowly his nerves are eased by its effects.
If he somehow can manage to forget the initial tingling, alcohol takes his control.
The alcoholics will put a myriad of reasons to defend the role of alcohol in distressing the mind.
But, it is also not effective in doing that.
Often people find themselves fighting after taking a few pegs.
Even the most balanced and calm persons will also be out of any balance at all.
They start to misbehave with others, abuse others, but can not recall anything when the hangover is over.
Our body treats alcohol as a toxic element.
When alcohol enters the body, it tries to get rid of it as soon as possible.
This involves the liver and the kidneys to do overtime and their other regular activities get hampered.
The instant effects oEven a low amount of alcohol can create mess with your coordination.
Drunken driving snatches one life in 30 minutes, 50 lives a day and 18,000 in a year.
oLow to middle dosage of alcohol results in serious domestic and child abuse.
oThe immediate effects are more and incoherent talking, wooziness, nausea, disturbed sleep and hangover.
The far reaching effects oThe liver and the kidneys are the first to be the martyrs of alcoholism, except for other organs.
Liver sorosis is one of the diseases.
oIt may lead to cancer.
oThe acid released by the gastric lining causes its erosion (and irritation), which leads to ulcers and diarrhea.
Nausea is another disorder.
oNutritional deficiency and malnutrition is the contribution of it.
oIt lessens sexual appetite and induces sterility.
oIt also causes hypertension and cardiac anomalies.
oImmunity in the body is decreased, and the body's immune system becomes too weak to fight the external harmful elements.
Help at your hand If you are having problem to fight the alcoholic within you, you can do the following.
oWrite down all the possible causes that are compelling you to quit drinking.
They may be a lot.
Don't ignore any of them.
oSet your goal of cutting it down.
Don't rush and set impractical goals.
A recommended dose for men is two glasses maximum per day and for women, one glass per day.