The Book of Alcohol
Introduction
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This book explains the basic facts of alcohol abuse and shows how the Alpha Nutrition program can be used for recovery. The text also explains how the program can be used by a recovering alcoholic to create a healthy diet that will assure long-term success. Often Detox with a food holiday on Alpha ENF is the best way to begin recovery and the Alpha Nutrition program is an ideal way to design a safer, healthier long-term diet.
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The Book of Alcohol is intended to be used with the Alpha Nutrition Program The program is modular and versatile and can be adapted to a variety of disease conditions where diet and nutrition play a role. This text provides background knowledge, helpful in understanding Alcohol related health problems and the relevance of diet revision.
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The Problem
Humans like to become intoxicated. Fermented, liquid foods that contain alcohol are used worldwide in parties, celebrations and rituals. It is common for fermented foods to be included in the daily diet. Small doses of fermented foods relax inhibitions and can feel pleasant in social situations. Larger doses are toxic to the brain and disable the drinker.
The fermentation of foods is by now an important industry worldwide, and many alcoholic beverages are considered to be of high quality and worthy of their high cost. If you travel through different countries, the availability of alcoholic beverages varies and is often regulated. In Muslim countries alcoholic beverages are forbidden. Alcoholic beverages are always taxed, often heavily, since drinking is still considered a vice and governments know that vices are reliable sources of revenue. Increasingly, governments view part of the tax they collect as part payment for the medical and social costs of heavy drinking. In Canada, access to alcoholic beverages is closely regulated by provincial liquor control boards and commercial establishments serving alcohol must be licensed. In the USA, alcoholic beverages are more freely available and can often be bought with other food at grocery stores.
Some people drink more alcoholic beverages than they should. The negative effects vary from the occasional hangover to complete disability. Some heavy drinkers are unwilling or unable to stop drinking and continue to harm themselves, their families, and their community.
Regular ingestion of alcoholic beverage in excess produces many disease patterns involving every part of the body. Even “moderate” alcohol abuse distorts the personality, emotions and intellect of the "social drinker." The cognitive impairments and personality distortion are a direct consequence of brain dysfunction cause by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages.
Alcohol abuse is considered to be an addiction and some argue about calling alcoholism a “disease.” The term “addiction” refers both the compulsive aspect of drinking and also to the harm drinking causes. The drinker harms himself, his family and the community at large. A reasonable person will notice the harm he or she is causing and will seek to remedy the problem. An addict ignores the harm and remains devoted to ingesting alcoholic beverages no matter how much harm is caused.
The basic features of alcohol abuse are:
- Alcohol in excess will cause disease – many diseases, in fact.
- Alcoholics harm others and can become destructive and dangerous citizens. Alcohol abuse is more common, more damaging, more dangerous and more costly than abuse of all other drugs.
- Many fine people have lost careers, good reputations, marriage, family, friends, and property. The story of alcoholism is always tragic.
- Recovery involves a firm and enduring decision to stop drinking. Recovery involves a strategy of self-regulation that includes proper diet, excellent nutrition and new, non-drinking friends.
If you drink too much you are temporarily disabled and you may be sick for several days. The term "hangover" is used in a causal manner; some people boast of their hangover as if getting drunk was some kind of initiation ceremony or trial of endurance that brings merit. Hangover jokes are common and conceal the pain, suffering and risk attached to heavy drinking. The hangover is said to begin the morning after heavy drinking. The severity of the hangover depends on how much was drunk, the food eaten and the duration of the intoxicated sleep. Vomiting aggravates dehydration and electrolyte loss, two of the most acute problems that contribute to the hangover illness. Wise et al suggest: " In the United States, related absenteeism and poor job performance cost $148 billion annually (average annual cost per working adult, $2000). Although hangover is associated with alcoholism, most of its cost is incurred by the light-to-moderate drinker. Patients with hangover may pose substantial risk to themselves and others despite having a normal blood alcohol level. Hangover may also be an independent risk factor for cardiac death. Symptoms of hangover seem to be caused by dehydration, hormonal alterations, deregulated cytokine pathways, and toxic effects of alcohol."
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