Alcohol Abuse Leads to Liver Damage

All the temporary pleasures of excessive alcohol consumption can lead to extreme pain in the long term.

Studies have conclusively proven the serious and harmful effects of long term alcohol abuse on the various organs of our body. While there have always articles that promote moderate consumption of alcohol as good for heart, there are few articles that promote the ill effects.

One of the most affected part of the body due to alcohol consumption is the liver a very vital organ of the body. Leave alone alcohol abuse even a somewhat higher consumtion can wreak havoc on the liver. Liver plays a central role in processing fat, sugar, proteins and vitamins and filtering the toxins from our internals. It also plays an important role in the body’s defense mechanism.

An excess consumption of alcohol puts stress on the livers ability to eliminate the toxins resulting in ALD (Alcoholic Liver Disease). Depending on severity it may ultimately lead to premature death due to livers incapacity to remove the toxins and poisoning the entire body.

Women compared with men develop the ALD’s faster and with lesser daily doses of alcohol.

It is best to cultivate a moderate alcohol use if not altogether avoid it if you want to lead a happy and healthy life. The recommended safe drinking is 1.5 ounces of 80 proof distilled spirit for men and half of it for women.

Drink if you must or want a little fun but keep it to the limits or consequences could lead to more pain than pleasure in the long run.

Check Your Alcoholism Now

If you are high strung individual with tendency to drink away your stress, you may unknowingly be turning into an alcoholic. While a very moderate drinking may help relieve the stress temporarily, it does not remove the root cause of the stress. To overcome you need to make lifestyle and career changes rather than resort to drinking.

The alcohol dependence, abuse or binge drinking is always camouflaged into social drinking, the rare binges or relaxation. The drinking of a relaxer in the evening may slowly be turning into a couple of extra drinks and slowly they may be leading into an alcoholism.

So what are the symptoms of alcoholism?

You are starting your drink very early in the evening.

You are unable to face the day without a drink during the course of the day.

You may be starting your drink early in the morning.
You need a drink before the crucial meeting with your clients or the boss.

If you do not get your regular alcohol you get into extreme depression.

You try to hide how much you drink or deny that you have drinking problem.

These are just a few of the early symptoms. You will be more shocked to know the effects of alcohol. The physical, psychological and the long & short term effects are disastrous for your life. You can download a free report on the effects of Alcohol right now here.

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Alcohol Abuse Cannot Cure Stress

American Psychological Association reports that as the stress levels increase due to the worsening US and Global economic conditions, more people are reaching out to unhealthy passive methods of dealing with stress. About 50 % of the americans reach our for some kind of fast food to cope with stress. 18% drink alcohol and 16 % smoke to help deal with stress.

Most people do not realise that reaching out for that extra drink or the cigarette is slowly but inexorably pulling them into addiction. Acohol addiction is especially dangerous as it leads to severe health and psychological problems.

The results of alcohol abuse can be shocking as you can see from the video below.

Stress and problems never go away because of alcohol. They get compounded.

Find people who can listen and give you the right advice when you have stress. The choice is yours whether you want to get stressed or take a grip on the circumstances and setting them right.

Please don't hit the bottle.

Alcoholic Abuse - More Social Initiatives Needed

Today one of the headlines in an Indian news paper Times of India that caught my attention is ‘Drunk man slips and fall into well, dies’. 

Death due to binge drinking is not an isolated event even in a country where alcohol sales and consumption is highly regulated by the government.  Accidents and death due to alcohol consumption is an everyday occurrence and though shocking gets scant attention. 

People generally shrug off such events.  So what has gone wrong in a society where drinking is taboo?

Various government organizations enforcing prohibition are riddled with inefficient and corrupt officials who simply look the other way to get their own pound of the flesh.  However the major problem lies in the attitudinal, cultural and behavioral areas of alcohol consumption.

Instead of prohibition, the governments need to educate and mobilize public opinion on moderate social drinking.  Free availability with a proper attitude towards drinking can curb the problem to a great extent.

Schools and collages should have special sessions to educate the young people who are more impressionistic on the ill effects of drinking.  Above all glorifying drinking in advertisements and the entertainment mediums must be stopped.  Parental vigilance on children staying out over night or in hostels and proper counseling in time can help curb alcoholic abuse and binge drinking.

Though it is a long drawn out process, such social initiatives alone can help curb the alcoholic menace.  Regulatory measures may prove to be counterproductive.