Everyone knows that alcoholic drinks are harmful to health.More than one thousand brochures, articles, television programs, books and materials on the Internet are devoted to this.But this says only one thing - about the scale of the problem of drunkenness, which a single country of the world has not yet been completely able to solve.
But is this evil?Or are there some minimally permissible doses of alcohol, in which health hazard can be avoided?Let's try to understand this issue in more detail.
1. Alcohol for the body is a toxic substance
This statement is indisputable and does not need evidence.They are given enough in official scientific and medical works.Therefore, it is possible to talk about the safety of a particular dose of alcohol only conditionally.Most often, we are talking about drinking so little during the feast that the next day you do not feel the pernicious consequences of intoxication, which is popularly called a hangover.But, of course, it is not worth hoping that the poisoning effect of ethanol will not affect in the future.Will affect.Perhaps not now, but with regular use of even small doses of alcohol, health consequences will be.How serious, the question is individual.
2. The norms of alcohol consumption for people with various stages of addiction
Drinking is classified as a disease.Therefore, there are certain criteria for alcohol consumption, according to which the doctor can determine at what stage of dependence a person is.People who can be purely accidentally, having been at the celebration, without a special desire for the company to drink a glass or two of wine in medical terminology are called sprinkles and weakly drinking.Their consumption indicators are from 200 to 300 g of alcohol per year, or even less.
Drinking moderately I can allow myself half a liter of strong a year with a frequency of 3-4 times a month.
Systematically drinking drink alcoholic drinks at least twice a week.In this case, the diagnosis of alcoholism of the first degree is already being made.
If the amount exceeds 800 g, this is a direct evidence that the disease is in the middle stage, and the patient urgently needs the help of narcologists.
3. Harmless standards for the female body
The data that we give below correspond to the recommendations of WHO for a safe amount of alcohol, which can be consumed by an adult woman.But there are many reservations regarding weight-growth parameters and frequency of consumption.Based on the permissible numbers, per day we have 130 ml of wine 15 degrees, 330 ml of beer and 50 ml of vodka.And this despite the fact that a person drinks no more than once a week.The above indicators approximately correspond to 20 g of pure ethanol.
4. Men's safe alcohol indicators
In men, in comparison with the ladies, the limits of the permissible will be slightly higher - 30 g of pure ethanol.If we consider specific alcoholic beverages, then this will correspond to 75 ml of vodka, half a liter of beer and a glass of wine.However, this does not mean at all that the male body is more strokes to alcohol.Recall that in percentage ratio, male drunkenness is still leading.This is an anthropometric difference.
5. On the basis of what are alcohol norms calculated?
Paul is only one of the parameters that are taken into account when it comes to determining the minimum possible amount of alcohol, which can be consumed relatively safely.Among other factors, which in fact will be more important: height, weight and age of a person.It is clear that for an elderly person or teenager, these criteria will be lower than for an adult tall person with a decent body weight.By the way, the helpless norm directly depends on weight and is 1.5 ml of pure alcohol per kg of body weight.This is a little more than 3.5 ml of vodka per kg.