One in 20 deaths … More than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined … One in 20 deaths worldwide is due to alcohol. Acute alcoholism, more and more among young people; Chronic alcoholism with classic diseases such as cirrhosis, but also traffic accidents, injuries, homicides and what we know less: infectious diseases, cardiovascular or diabetes. Unfortunately France is not the last!
We have been world champions in the round ball for a few weeks, but we have long been the European champions in the glass ball; Europe is the region where people drink the most
Sad title since it is about alcohol consumption per capita.
Update on our alcohol consumption.
Vast program in a country where “biture makes people laugh” and where initiation into wine is an almost essential family rite. There are misconceptions that often fuel our good conscience. For example, between 3 friends who meet at the cafe and who drink one, half a beer, the other, a glass of wine, and the third, a whiskey, there is a photo: they have indeed all drunk the same amount of pure alcohol. Next, alcohol is not a stimulant, but slows down brain activity. This is even why it causes car accidents. The cheerfulness and excitement that follow the absorption of alcohol are therefore decoys. Drinking to warm up is heresy. There is certainly a feeling of heat because alcohol causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. Unfortunately, this reaction lowers the body temperature. In fact, the alcoholic is less resistant to the cold … You will understand why the Saint-Bernard with its little barrel of rum under its collar had the same effect on those missing in the snow as a burst of a submachine gun. Legends die hard … Just like the one who claims that alcohol preserves. It is true that cherries are preserved in brandy and meats by smoking them. From there to derive arguments for drinking and smoking, there is a dangerous step.
Coming back to the supposedly protective role of alcohol, American studies have shown that the risk of heart attack, for example, is lower in those who consume a little alcohol every day than in followers. sobriety. However, first, this is only a small decrease, then the risk of slipping, and therefore alcoholism, seems more important than protection.
Let us now move on to the so-called effective methods of sobering up: the bowl of black coffee, the cold shower or going out into the fresh air, only have the effect of waking up, in no case of reducing the quantity or the effects of the alcohol absorbed.
As to whether one is an alcoholic, one must evaluate the weekly consumption. This is indeed the only valid criterion. And the upper limit is 14 glasses of so-called “standard” wine for women and 21 for men. Above this consumption per week, we are close to chronic alcoholism.
If women unfortunately start to practice this pleasure more and more, which becomes a nasty habit in case of excess, it should be noted that men are three times more likely to drink alcoholic drinks every day than women.
More than 30,000 men will die this year from the damage of alcoholism, many more from cancer or road accidents than from cirrhosis – which all drinkers fear – but which only represent 20% of this sad toll. Because we unfortunately know that with alcohol, you don’t have to be drunk to die of it.
13.5% of young people die of alcoholism
Specialists also emphasize the alcoholism of young people, in particular on “binje drinking”, this first “drunk”, often extremely brutal, which would have the consequence of leaving on the brain a kind of indelible mark that will facilitate more late addiction to this ancestral drug
Besides, what to say to a teenager who comes home drunk? The specialists in this addiction are categorical: one should not refer to one’s own experience, because young people no longer drink as their parents could have done. It is necessary to apply an absolute rule: do not say anything at the time and wait for the next day, because, after having boasted, a teenager very often admits the bad sides of drunkenness …
Alcohol is a drug that has the particularity – along with tobacco – of being perfectly legal. However, unlike nicotine, in no case do these same specialists claim, quite the contrary, the outlawing of this important part of our heritage and our culture. Lobbying in this area is having a hard time … We must insist on a fundamental point: the so-called beneficial effect is completely counterbalanced by the risk – when we put our noses in these drinks – of seeing the addiction set in, which encourages the 25% of French people who are totally sober not to change their habits
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