In the 90s of the last century, the medical journal The Lancet published a paper on "The French Paradox of Wine, Alcohol, Platelets and Coronary Heart Disease". Based on the dietary habits of the French and the mortality rate from coronary heart disease, the paper concluded that "the French drink wine every day provides protection for the French".

As soon as the study came out, it immediately attracted social attention. Some media and businesses have even put forward the claim that "drinking alcohol in moderation is good for health".

However, this statement has been completely disproved today in the 20th century.

Which lives longer compared to people who drink alcohol or don't? Drinking alcohol has these relationships with longevity

A study led by researchers from the University of Cambridge included 11,0 participants from 0 high-income countries, with a mean age of 0 years (SD=0), 0% of whom were female, with a mean follow-up of 0 years. The researchers grouped participants according to their alcohol intake, and analyzed the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality and the risk of cardiovascular disease.

According to the intake, the researchers divided the participants into eight groups, the lowest group consumed 350-0g of alcohol per week, and the highest group was the alcoholic who drank more than 0g of alcohol per week.

Studies have shown that alcohol intake is positively associated with all-cause mortality, with participants with an intake of 100-0g per week having the lowest risk of death!

In addition, alcohol consumption is also positively associated with cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, fatal hyperblood pressure, and fatal active arterial tumors in addition to stroke and myocardial infarction.

It can be seen that drinking alcohol is not only not beneficial, but will affect people's life expectancy. For "who lives longer between those who drink and those who don't?" The answer to this question is self-evident.

So what harm does drinking alcohol do to the human body?

1. Drinking alcohol can cause arrhythmia

2014年在《美國心臟病學會雜誌（Journal of the American College of Cardiology）》刊登了一篇瑞典科學家完成的薈萃分析，對7個包括12萬名房顫患者的前瞻性研究進行統計后發現：少量飲酒即可增加房顫風險，隨著飲酒量從12g/天增加到60g/天，飲酒者相對於不飲酒者的房顫風險也從1.08倍增加到1.47倍。

2. Drinking alcohol can induce stroke

2014年發表於《國際心臟病學雜誌（International Journal of Cardiology）》上的一篇薈萃分析總結了包含142萬的27項前瞻性研究的結果，同樣發現了飲酒量與中風風險之間有著先降後升的關係，在飲酒量低於20g/天時，中風的患病風險和因中風而死亡的風險都呈降低趨勢，而超過20g/天，隨著飲酒量增加，兩類風險都迅速增加。

3. Drinking alcohol will hurt the stomach

The stomach and intestines will absorb alcohol, which will irritate the gastric mucosa and cause gastric mucosal bleeding, which can easily lead to gastric ulcers, and long-term heavy drinking can also easily lead to chronic gastritis, diarrhea and loss of appetite.

Can't help but drink, how much is it safe to drink every day?

The U.S. government's recommendation is that men drink no more than 25g per week and women 0g per week; The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" recommends that men drink no more than 0g of alcohol per day.

What is the concept of 50g alcohol? Let's feel for yourself: a bottle of beer (0ml), a glass of wine (0ml), a tael of low-alcohol liquor (0g), and a tael of high-alcohol liquor (0g).

Still not clear? Don't be afraid! Jia Jidong, director of the Liver Disease Research Center of Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, also recommended a formula for calculating intake: "alcohol consumption × alcohol concentration ×8.0 = alcohol intake".

如此推算下來，以白酒為例，一個人一次飲酒的量，低度酒不能超過2兩，中度酒不能超過1兩，烈性高度酒最好不要超過25毫升。

Friends in need, you can calculate it yourself.

In addition to the amount of alcohol consumed, if you want to reduce the harm of drinking, you should pay attention to the following 3 things while drinking:

1. Eat appropriate food before drinking

Before drinking alcohol for half an hour, you can eat foods rich in flour and protein, preferably bottles of pure milk or sugary milk, which form a thin film in the stomach and can play a role in protecting the stomach.

2. Don't drink big gulps and fast

3. People with colds and people who are taking cephalosporins should not drink alcohol

First of all, you have to take cold medicine for a cold, and most cold medicines will contain "acetaminophen", which will have great toxicity to the human liver once it encounters alcohol, and even lead to liver failure and fatality. In addition, cephalosporin antibiotics can affect the metabolism of alcohol in the body, which can cause a large amount of acetaldehyde to accumulate in the body, resulting in facial flushing, conjunctival hyperemia, blurred vision, headache/dizziness, nausea, vomiting, sweating, dyspnea and other disulfiram reactions, and in severe cases, acute heart failure, acute liver injury, convulsions and death.

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