Facts & Fiction
Facts and myths about alcohol
| Facts and myths about alcohol |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Wednesday, 15 April 2009 | |
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Do women get drunk faster than men? Even Dorothy Parker - A woman who saw the Hemingway and in whose honor named Martini, poet and writer of the cut language, able to really drink a lot - granted, that was rarely able to cope with more alcohol than double Martini. "After landing at the third table, and after the fourth - under the host" - confessed before. Simple observation indicates that Parker is not alone in this - as a rule, women are feeling the effects more quickly than men drinking alcohol. However, although most people believe that a matter of different body sizes in subjects of both sexes, is the scientific explanation, rather that it will build the body. As a woman in the body fat to water ratio is greater, women reach higher blood alcohol concentration after a single drink than men - even if the same weigh, and are the same height. Some enzymes also play a role.
In a watershed study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1990 showed that women have on average nearly half the lower concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase than men. It is responsible for the breakdown of alcohol . The researchers also discovered that the amount of alcohol have been degraded after the first move by the stomach and liver of women is only 20% of the amount of alcohol by men rozkładanej. This is not only that women less effective grass alcohol, regardless of their size. Compared with men , a higher percentage of alcohol goes with them into the blood stream and directly into the brain. No one knows why this is happening. But as a result of women who drink a lot, quickly reached for liver cirrhosis and other diseases caused by alcohol abuse than men. Do you any good hand to cheer? Women who wypijają a day or two drinks, rarely have a heart attack, cardiovascular problems and rarely suffer from Alzheimer's disease than those who prefer to drink non-alcoholic beverages. Do you really drink so niezdrowo is on an empty stomach? This ancient rule on drinking, which every one of us knows, and most people once it broke: Always eat something before you start to drink alcohol. Common sense suggests to us that drinking on an empty stomach will lead to faster alcohol intoxication. However, the extent to which eat something before we can drink really help? According to several studies and experts on alcohol - the very large. This is due mainly to the manner in which alcohol is degraded in the stomach and intestine thin. Whenever you eat alcohol, the body begins to decompose immediately, but some of its stars is absorbed directly into the blood stream. If you have food in the stomach - particularly proteins, fats and carbohydrates of thick consistency - the process of absorption is slowed. Accelerate the additives while aerated drinks such as soda water (gas contained in such beverages accelerates absorption, and this is why champagne is working as quickly), and high temperature. Warm drinks are absorbed faster than cold. In a study conducted in 1994 confirmed the view that it is better not to drink on an empty stomach. Asked a group of 10 people in two different days, a few drinks to drink any deadly. In the first case całonocnym drink after fasting, in the second - after a modest breakfast. The date on which the respondents eaten breakfast, is slowly becoming drunk, although the quantity of alcohol has not changed. In addition, to show the much lower overall levels of alcohol in the blood - an average of nearly 70% lower than the date on which not eat breakfast. In some cases, have a drink before the meal sprawiało that the concentration of alcohol in the blood of the person concerned does not exceed 0.08% - which is legal for foreign drivers in most states. To a man, weighing about 75 kilograms, reached the concentration of alcohol in the blood, drinking on an empty stomach, would have to drink four cans of beer with a capacity of 0.33 liters, a woman weighing 62 kg less than three longer be enough. Although each of metabolism works a little differently, the average man needs at least seven hours to completely wytrzeźwieć. When the alcohol is already in your body, that, contrary to the claims of many people, no way - coffee or a cold shower - does not help you get rid of it fast. All you can do is to drink plenty of water and let nature work. |
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