During the Spring Festival, these rumors fooled you how many more drinks?
Refute rumors
◎Reporter Zhang Yun
This year's Spring Festival, I believe that many people will inevitably drink a few drinks when visiting relatives and friends.
Sometimes, there are a thousand cups of wine every confidant, and I feel bored in the depths, and I drink too much accidentally.
As we all know, drinking too much can hurt the body. In order to reduce the burden on the body, many people will look for a quick solution to alcohol.
Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, there was a rumor in the WeChat circle of friends: drinking too much the day before, and waking up the next day uncomfortable, dizzy and fatigued, and drinking a small cup of "through" it will not be so uncomfortable.
In addition, there are a lot of rumors about wine on the Internet during the Spring Festival: the amount of alcohol can be trained, red wine can fight cancer, drinking can quench the cold... Are these claims true or false?
Can you sober up with another glass the next day after a hangover?
The truth: symptoms of drunkenness will continue to worsen
"You have to drink more wine the next day after a hangover. It won't be so uncomfortable." Have you ever heard such a "coup" for sobering up after having a good night with your friends?
In this regard, Ruan Guangfeng, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Kexin Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center, told the reporter of Science and Technology Daily that the key to hangover is to metabolize alcohol and relieve some of the negative effects of alcohol on the human body, such as dizziness and headaches.
After drinking the previous day, I still feel dizzy and uncomfortable when I wake up the next day, which means that the alcohol has not been completely metabolized and the side effects of alcohol on the human body have not been completely eliminated.
At this time, if you drink more alcohol and increase your alcohol intake, it will only be counterproductive.
Therefore, this approach is completely unfeasible. This behavior of increasing alcohol intake will aggravate the symptoms of drunkenness and prolong the duration of drunkenness.
Can alcohol be practiced?
Truth: The ability to metabolize alcohol is innate, and hard work is useless.
Many people believe that the more you drink, the more you can drink, and the amount of alcohol you can practice.
"The ability to metabolize alcohol is brought out from the'women's womb', no matter how much you practice it, you can't get it out." Ruan Guangfeng explained that the main component of alcohol is alcohol. After alcohol enters the body, it is mainly absorbed by the alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver. It becomes acetaldehyde, which is catalyzed by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase to produce acetic acid, and finally carbon dioxide and water are produced.
The activity of these two enzymes is mainly determined by genetic factors.
If the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase is high, the alcohol that enters the body will be quickly decomposed to produce a large amount of acetaldehyde, but if the activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase is low, a large amount of acetaldehyde will accumulate in the body. It causes people to face redness, increase heart rate, and skin temperature. Such people usually drink less alcohol.
On the contrary, if the activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the body is high, the acetaldehyde produced is quickly decomposed into carbon dioxide and water, and such people can drink it well.
"If it is a normal person who does not lack alcohol-metabolizing enzymes, because they do not drink for a long time, the secretion of enzymes is relatively small. By drinking more alcohol, the secretion of enzymes can be stimulated, which can increase the amount of alcohol. But if people are born lacking alcohol-metabolizing enzymes No matter how much you drink, the amount of alcohol cannot be increased." Ruan Guangfeng said.
Can drinking red wine fight cancer?
The truth: drinking alcohol may cause 7 types of cancer
Red wine seems to be different from other wines. It has been labeled as high-end, health-preserving, and anti-cancer by some people. Many media at home and abroad have also made relevant reports on the anti-cancer effects of red wine.
So, can red wine fight cancer?
According to Ruan Guangfeng, red wine contains resveratrol. In experiments, scientists found that resveratrol can improve the fat metabolism of mice and even prolong the lifespan of mice.
However, further studies have found that although resveratrol can regulate blood lipids and thereby reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, its anti-cancer effect is minimal.
The main ingredient in red wine, alcohol, is a first-grade carcinogen announced by the World Health Organization (WHO).
A large number of studies have found that even a small amount of alcohol can increase the risk of cancers such as oral cancer, esophageal cancer, and breast cancer.
If you drink too much, the risk of these diseases will increase greatly.
For example, if you drink 50 ml of alcohol a day, the risk of oral cancer and pharyngeal cancer will increase by 2.1 times, and the risk of esophageal cancer, throat cancer and essential hypertension will also be about twice as high as before. The risk of breast cancer Will increase by 55%.
The latest research has also found that there is definite evidence that drinking alcohol can cause cancer, and it is at least related to cancers in 7 locations of the pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and breast.
Ruan Guangfeng said frankly: "Alcohol is harmless to health, and there is no safe range. As long as drinking alcohol, it is harmful to health and will increase the risk of various cancers. From a health perspective, you can drink as little as possible. If you really want to drink, you have to control the amount."
Drinking can keep out the cold?
Truth: Not only can't warm up but also catch cold easily
In various film and television dramas, there are often "drinking and warming up" plots, which to a certain extent deepens people's impression of this statement.
In response to this, Liu Huiyang, a pharmacist at the First Affiliated Hospital of the PLA General Hospital, said that fever after drinking is just an illusion.
People do have a feeling of fever throughout the body after drinking, because after drinking, alcohol stimulates the capillaries on the surface of the body, making the blood vessels dilate and thicker, and speed up blood circulation. The blood concentrates in the capillaries of the skin, making the skin feel warm. Even the face becomes hot, creating the illusion that drinking can withstand the cold.
But it is only the skin epidermis that feels warm, and this phenomenon of drinking to warm up is only temporary.
"Essentially, the body's calorie consumption will increase correspondingly after drinking alcohol. The calorie radiated through the skin actually consumes more calories in the body." Liu Huiyang said that the heat dissipation speed increases, resulting in the consumption of more calories than alcohol supplies. .
When the rate of heat generation cannot keep up with the rate of loss, body temperature will drop and people will feel cold.
So drinking not only can't warm your body, it can't keep you warm, but you can also catch a cold easily.
Further reading
The key to hangover is to drink plenty of water
What kind of people must not drink alcohol?
"For anyone, try not to drink alcohol. There are no people who can drink and who can't. Of course, some people don't drink it anyway, such as pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children." Ruan Guangfeng said.
He also introduced that if you really want to drink, the alcohol intake should not exceed 28 ml/day for men and 14 ml/day for women, which is equivalent to women can drink up to 360 ml of beer or 150 ml of wine or 75 ml of low-alcohol liquor a day. Men can drink up to 720 ml of beer or 300 ml of wine or 150 ml of low-alcohol liquor a day.
What should we do when we have to drink for work and entertainment?
Ruan Guangfeng suggested that first of all, drink less, control the amount, and don't drink too much.
Secondly, drink plenty of water, because alcohol metabolism needs to be excreted through urine. The key to hangover is to drink plenty of water. As long as you drink enough water and urinate more, alcohol can be excreted from the body.