8 strong myths about alcohol

Alcohol - is not just vodka and beer, which for many people, like tea, is a practical everyday drink. But good or bad, and in general - do we understand how alcohol acts on the body or are content with the usual stereotypes? Try to understand ...

Many can only drink a healthy person

The ability to drink without getting drunk, you have to drink large amounts of alcohol immediately without intoxication in science is called tolerance to alcohol. To many it seems a unique ability, but doctors believe a "talent" a sign of the second stage of alcoholism. If a person has a high resistance to alcohol, it does not mean that he can not be alcohol dependence. Maybe! But this   alcohol addiction   very quickly it develops into severe illness, often with fatal consequences.

When a person can drink without getting drunk It is usually much more than other drinks. As a result, his body gets a horse dose of toxic products produced during the digestion of ethanol. Over the years, the wastes accumulate, until one day "for no apparent reason" does not happen a heart attack or stroke - cardiovascular system in the end can not withstand the load.

Alcohol increases the appetite

In fact, the famine provoked by light only strong drink, and in small quantities. Under the influence of alcohol activated the nerve centers responsible for the hunger-saturation - on their "awakening" takes about 15 minutes. Drink alcohol   to excite the appetite - a dangerous occupation. Especially on an empty stomach, and just before eating. Strong alcohol   irritate the stomach and esophagus, causing heartburn and gastritis.

Alcohol fattening

Yes!   Alcohol fattening Because alcohol contains carbohydrates, in which the processing in the body are converted to fatty acid only. Fat deposited on the stomach, the sides and the like. Particularly dangerous from the standpoint of nutrition spirits - each gram contains not less than 7 kcal.

By the way, large amounts of alcohol inhibit nerve centers signaling about saturation. Actively drinking, a person does not notice that overeating - simply does not feel satiety.

Expensive and high quality alcohol - is harmless

No alcoholic beverage per se is neither harmful or harmless. Health hazard is an alcoholic poison - or rather, acetaldehyde, which is formed in the body after treatment of ethanol. This poison is gradually neutralized by the liver, but with frequent binge liver does not have time to remove toxins, it begins to accumulate in the cells. And even quality alcohol   provokes the formation of alcoholic poison, particularly harmful to the cardiovascular system.

Taking antibiotics can not drink!

In fact   alcohol   only can reduce the effects of some antibiotics, which is not, in general, life threatening. You may also experience unwanted side effects such as excessive intoxication.

Much more dangerous combination of alcohol with painkillers, especially acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen and aspirin. In such a situation, increasing the risk of damage to the intestinal mucosa.

Alcohol helps to sleep

It really is. but alcohol It gives cyclicity sleep, and particularly its impact on deep phase. Falling asleep in a drunken state, the person wakes up easily, because somewhere in four hours alcohol is no longer valid and the nerve centers disinhibited. But under repeated ritual of "drink at night," the hypnotic effect of alcohol and all begins to fade.

Alcoholism can be encoded

Coding as a method of treatment does not eliminate the causes that led to alcohol addiction and restore the nervous system. Quite a large category of patients continue to get sick, even if you do not drink a result of coding: they suffer from depression and bouts of irritation. Such people are very painful to carry sobriety because the mechanism of the pleasure of real life they did not turn on after the "strings". Some just waiting coding   end of period, in "X hour" craving for alcohol escapes with great force. Sometimes after encoding patients start to drink even more than before.

Alcohol relieves stress

Raise your spirits with alcohol can actually be. But for this alcohol dose should be quite small - 20-30 ml of vodka or cognac. Under the influence of alcohol in the blood is ejected intensively dopamine - the hormone of happiness that causes a person exhilaration, euphoria. But a large dose causes the brain to develop too active substances, and for one night, you can deplete dopamine, that would support the mood all day tomorrow. Therefore, the morning after a stormy booze human condition characterized as stress and depression.

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Healthy food for a thin waist

Age-related changes - a natural process that can not be stopped. Stay slim over the years is very difficult - this is no secret. However, proper nutrition is provided for each age period in a woman's life their concept. Simple rules for a healthy diet will help keep women slim waist and 30 years, and 60.

You 20 years ...

What is important:

A man of the same age can eat more and not gain weight. Therefore, be aware that your portion should always be slightly smaller.

Proper nutrition for women   20 years provides daily requirement of 1,400 calories. Divide them all prudent as follows: Breakfast - 300 calories; Lunch - 400; Dinner - 500, as well as two snacks of 100 calories. Remember that chronic lack of sleep can disrupt your plans to lose weight - the lack of sleep increases levels of hormones hunger.

All about healthy eating

Do not get carried away by alcohol. A larger number only adds calories, not to mention the fact that hinders the part of the brain that is responsible for self-control. The more drunk, the more likely that the house you can not resist the desire to snack cake overnight. In addition, alcohol-laden liver is not able to participate burn fat. But the daily serving of broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts - on the contrary, helps burn.

You 30 years ...

What is important:

At this age, nutritionists recommend a strictly three times a day. The habit of snacking and constant chewing on the go - the main reason that the 30-year-old woman put on weight.

If you are afraid of strict diet, stick to the rules to eat their daily 1400 healthy calories three times a day (see the diagram. Above). Food should be absorbed slowly, so slowly and chew better than sitting at a desk.

In no case do not eat up for home after a family meal. Some Western experts give in this case is very cruel piece of advice: spray the leftovers on plates washing up liquid or glass cleaner to resist the temptation to "clean up" them, and then without regret, throw in the trash.

Health 30-year-old woman has its own characteristics. PMS, easy to carry ten years ago, it turns into a serious test and is often accompanied by an irresistible craving for sweets. To resist the desire to eat extra chocolate, increase the level of magnesium in the food: it should be filled with nuts, green leafy vegetables and whole grain bread.

You 40 years ...

What is important:

A healthy diet for women in 40 years - Is, first of all, the food is high in protein: a day should eat up to 300 grams of dairy or meat products, eggs, meat or fish. Such a diet activates metabolism, increasing metabolic rate by 25%. The amount of carbohydrates Minimize: to 1 tablespoon. And plentiful - fresh fruit, vegetables and salads.

Try spicing meal as soon as possible a large number of aromatic herbs: the more the smell of the dish, the lower portion satisfy your appetite.

You 50 years or more ...

What is important:

Proper nutrition le 50 T - is the need to choose foods with a low glycemic index, even if losing weight for you is no longer relevant. Nizkoglikemicheskaya food in general, beneficial effects on health, preventing increase of cholesterol in blood vessels and supporting.

Eat more fish. Fish diet inhibits the formation of the hunger hormone, stimulates the body at this age. Use flaxseed oil: this healthy fat helps improve thyroid function.

If, despite all sorts of diets, you will still gain weight (and thus suffer from feeling cold and mood swings), visit a doctor to check the thyroid works.

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Curry blocks the harmful effects of nicotine

Investigated the effect of curcumin on the health of patients smokers, scientists called curry "incredible food additive", which along with nutrients and contain pharmaceutical substances. Scientists have little doubt that sooner or later will be created based on curcumin drug helps smokers in the fight against cancer.

Eating curry

As it turned out, the substance, which gives curry yellow-orange hue - curcumin is able to block the effect of nicotine on orgnaizm, speaking at the same time as a powerful antioxidant, a natural antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agent. According to experts, curcumin has the ability to inhibit the formation of new cancer cells in patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke.

Smoking is considered a major cause of head and neck cancer. If patients do not leave cigarette after diagnosis, they have dramatically increased the risk of metastasis - the conversion of ordinary cells into cancer cells. Curcumin has been found, the process may stop. (READ MORE)

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What do we know about the cold: myths and facts

Two and a half years of our lives we spend fighting with various colds. Therefore it is very important to be able to distinguish between the facts related to these diseases, from fiction!

the common cold

  Statement:   You can easily catch a cold because of the cold weather or rain, that is, froze or soaked

True. Colds   caused by viruses, and if you find yourself on the street without a coat on a cool day, it does not increase your chance of catching the virus. But if you are a carrier of it, the impact of extreme temperature conditions weaken the body's defenses and accelerate the development of symptoms.

Statement: if you just had a cold, the acquired immune system for some time

True.   There are about 200 different types of virus colds So that your body developed antibodies against one type does not guarantee protection against the other.

Statement:   should avoid kissing, if you have a cold

True. The virus is the common cold is not covered by direct contact, such as kissing. Most often, the virus is transferred large particles that person into the air by coughing or sneezing. There are infected and fingers that touches a cold nose and eyes.

Statement:   colds need to eat hard, and at high temperatures better than starve

True.   Regardless of whether you picked up the common cold or something more serious, your body needs to get enough nutrients. Doctors recommend the chicken or vegetable soups - they are warm and very easy to digest. (READ MORE)

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How to drink New Year's Eve: Tips psychiatrist

On the eve of the country's chief psychiatrist Eugene Brune reminded Russians of the culture of drinking. Echoing the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, the night of 31 December to 1 January, he urged his compatriots to abandon the use of alcohol, and if they drink, then a little bit.

Eugene Brune advised those who will meet New Year's Eve   magnificent feast, move more - walk, dance and take part in the festive show program.

"We need to remember that alcohol is poisonous to the body. The liver does not work well at night - this time it is usually already "sleeping", and there is no safe alcohol. Celebrate the need to moderate, including taking breaks between the absorption of food - this is the first council, "- said the psychiatrist.

Those who do not heed these words, and go his own way, he recommends after a stormy night, and did not freshen the nip drink aspirin. The best remedy would be January 1 or pickle juice.

How to drink:
- When ordering alcohol, prefer quantity of quality.
- In order not to poison a fake drink, make sure that the waiter served at the table.
- Drink slowly and on a full stomach.
- Do not mix alcohol with drugs.
- In order not to get drunk at a party, gastroenterologists recommend 2-3 hours before the meal to drink 50 - 70ml of spirits, biting a sandwich with red caviar or fish. Thus, omega-3, processing toxins will act sooner.
- Drink only low-alcohol drinks.
- Try not to mix alcohol varying degrees Fortress (if there is no choice, increase the degree).
- Do not eat a lot of salty food - from her thirsty, and then drink.
- Eliminate from your menu, alcoholic drinks, including soft drinks, sugar and cream. They are stronger in times hit the liver. (READ MORE)

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Bill Gates fights malaria

The former head of the empire Microsoft, which retired in the company to focus on charitable projects, to continue the war against malaria. Through its charitable foundation, Gates sends another $ 100,000 in grants to researchers leading the search for new ways to treat this dangerous disease that is particularly prevalent in the poorest countries of Africa and Asia.

One of the main ideas of the researchers is to use an ordinary gum malarial detectors for inclusion in saliva. Thus, to assay for malaria   people do not even need to take blood. Samples of saliva using the gum is easy to obtain, it is absolutely painless and even enjoyable process, which also does not require expensive equipment. Of course, first of all, this new analysis will be used on children.

Less moment of this technique is that the lights   malaria in saliva is not so pronounced as in the blood. The author of the method is the MD Andrew Fung of UC. Fang uses the money   Bill Gates To continue to develop.

A scientist Stephen Marantz of Weill Cornell Medical College will receive funds for the development of their research on the impact of malaria parasites ... chocolate. Chocolate - this is a very promising substance for researchers malaria Because it binds to cholesterol in the body, and outputs it outside. Meanwhile, the malaria parasite feeds on fat in the blood, and if it does not, the parasite will just die of hunger.

Marantz expects to almost completely eliminate the parasite, leaving only some of it in the blood of children that it developed an immunity to the disease. Scientists have studied the various components, but opted for the chocolate.

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Top 5 causes of injury genitals in men

To understand what actions lead to damage to the genitals, tried to staff of the University of California at San Francisco. Since such statistics are not compiled before, they had to start their work from scratch. The starting point of the study was the data about patients, medical facilities provided by the United States.
Hospitals and clinics share information about men and women older than 18 years, refers to the urology and gynecology in the period from 2002 to 2010. In total, during this time frame Damage genitals were diagnosed in 142,143 people. Each year, with injuries of the penis, testicles, bladder, kidney, and the external genitalia to professionals accounted for approximately 16,000 Americans.

According to the researchers, the most susceptible to injury proved to men (69%). One-third of them were aged 18-28, and one in five was in need of urgent hospitalization. The experts noted that with age, the stronger sex became more cautious and careful, however, to fully protect themselves against genital mutilation, they could not.

The most common causes of injury male genitalia are:
- Falling off the bike when it lands on the steering frame,
- The game of football, basketball and baseball (a direct hit ball)
- Pinching the penis or testicles zipper on his pants,
- Cuts during Trimmed,
- The effects of oral sex.

Withdrawing these statistics, the researchers sincerely surprised - they did not think that the number of domestic (non-sporting injuries) would be so great.

"It turns out that they occur so frequently that it is time to engage in preventive maintenance - to create special manual listing all the major actions that lead to injury to genitals "- Said the head of research assistant professor of urology Benjamin Breer.

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