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On average, each drink raises your blood alcohol level by about 0.02%. The people who are most dangerous are those who think they can "handle it.”
Alcohol is used as a social lubricant, maybe more so as holiday festivities approach. But drinking carries health and other risks. Here are five tips to make it safer.
Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages worldwide, with people drinking it for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Especially in light of red wine’s place in the Mediterranean diet ...
A glass of red wine. The health effects of wine are mainly determined by its active ingredient – alcohol. [1] [2] Preliminary studies found that drinking small quantities of wine (up to one standard drink per day for women and one to two drinks per day for men), particularly of red wine, may be associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular diseases, cognitive decline, stroke, diabetes ...
In almost every rural household of Tigray, the woman knows how to prepare the local beer, siwa in Tigrinya language.Basic ingredients are water; a home-baked and toasted flatbread commonly made from barley in the highlands, [1] [2] [3] and from sorghum, finger millet or maize in the lowlands; [4] some yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae); [5] and dried leaves of gesho (Rhamnus prinoides) that ...
Enzymes. Women have lower levels of two enzymes—alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase—that metabolize (break down) alcohol in the stomach and liver. As a result, women absorb more alcohol into their bloodstreams than men. Hormones. Changes in hormone levels during the menstrual cycle may also affect how a woman metabolizes alcohol.
Iceland: Advise that pregnant women abstain from alcohol during pregnancy because no safe consumption level exists. [25] Israel: Women should avoid consuming alcohol before and during pregnancy [25] [43] The Netherlands: Abstinence [25] New Zealand: "Women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant should avoid drinking alcohol." [44]
A raft of new energy drinks are hitting the market, but it's worth scrutinizing their claims. "This is a really great example of 'health washing,'" says Abbey Sharp, a registered dietitian.