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Alcohol and coffee, chocolate and crisps – our bodies need not. Only our brain is delighted. Treat yourself to the not fun, because these small sins are dangerous – as long as they remain small. Just too much of it is unhealthy.
The glass of wine in the evening, the beer in front of the TV, the after-dinner brandy are part of everyday life. Alcohol is a stimulant. But he can become a poison if you drink too much.
Even coffee and tea are part of our everyday life: Here’s a latte macchiato, there is a green tea. Coffee and tea contain caffeine or Thein. For a long time these substances as harmful. Meanwhile, food scientists estimate that way. Tea is actually very healthy – because of its herbal ingredients that support the human metabolism.
Sweets and savory snacks are however still considered to be unhealthy. But nutrition experts condemn not the goodies. The idea is, rather, a handful a day not to kill them
Alcohol
Alcohol makes cheerful and uninhibited, but also aggressive, or tired. Alcohol tastes – and can teach me sick. Everything is taken together alcohol is a stimulant – and a poison. It just depends on the amount.
Whether you are drunk or blotto, in principle, alcohol does the same: It inhibits the activity of your nerve cells. Drink regularly, your brain gets used to the drug. And then you always need more in order to feel tipsy.
Most people, after two glasses of beer or a pint of wine already 0.5 per thousand in the blood. A blood alcohol equivalent to one gram of alcohol per 1000 grams of blood. Thus one should not drive. From 0.2 per thousand, many feel more relaxed already. From start to babble to one per thousand, most in and to stagger. In two parts per thousand risk of a blackout. From more than three per thousand raises a severe alcohol poisoning. It can be fatal.
A glass for women, two for men
It is known that women tolerate less alcohol than men. This is not only because women generally weigh less than men. Your body has more fat, while a lower water content. Therefore, the liver from alcohol women processed more slowly. The result is that the alcohol is diluted less in their blood, they are rather drunk. Plump women, however, tolerate a bit more. And those who drink regularly, reduce alcohol faster.
Although the body can absorb alcohol quickly, it builds only slowly. As a man you can break down in an hour, 0.1 grams of alcohol per kilogram of body weight. As a woman, you create only 0.085 grams, the America Nutrition Society deems it “medically acceptable” when women regularly drink a glass of beer or 0.1 liters of wine. Men are allowed to approve two small beers, without being regarded as harmful.
Who drinks so moderate noted little of the typical effects of alcohol. Beyond this amount increases the risk for many complications but steadily: The more alcohol, the higher the risk of having, for example, a fatty liver or pancreatic inflammation. Experts advise: Drink two to three days per week alcohol in order to rebuild your liver and your body is not used to alcohol.
Drop-off: liver cirrhosis
Alcohol burdens the liver. Drink continuously more than a small glass, increases the liver and is the so-called fatty liver. Drinking then continue beyond the extent to die from the liver cells. The institution scars, shrinks and becomes hard. Now you have liver cirrhosis.
Depending on how sensitive your liver, they can already shrink with smaller amounts of alcohol if you drink for years: If you drink every day as a woman more than 10 grams, as a man more than 20 grams 10 grams of alcohol represent a small glass of beer, 20 grams are included such as in a glass of wine.
With every daily drink too much also increases the risk of cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus to get. High alcohol beverages may seem worse than those with low alcohol content. Do you smoke, you increase your risk once again: who combined 25 standard drinks of 0.03 liters of liquor per week with two packs of cigarettes per day, has a much higher susceptibility to esophageal cancer as well as a strong drinking Non smoking.
If alcohol is on the rescue boat
For many people alcohol is a good friend, a savior, and Comforter in difficult situations or in daily solitude. are reasons to drink it all: as the fear of being rejected by other people, or the belief that alcohol is a good way to relax.
If you watch three of the following symptoms, you are probably addicted to alcohol and should address the drug problem:
* Do you have more specific desire for alcohol?
* Do you find it hard to stop drinking, such as in the pub?
* If you feel sick or start to shake if you have been drinking nothing more?
* Do you find that you need to drink more to achieve the same effect?
* Change your daily routine conscious to drink can?
As a rule of thumb: If that fails to drink for two weeks at nothing, has a huge problem.
Alcohol for pregnant women should be taboo. Because it passes through the placenta to the unborn baby and may harm him hard. A lower bound for a harmless amount of alcohol during pregnancy is not known.
Extended a glass of wine every day life?
There is a widespread belief that red wine and beer, in moderation, healthy. Fact: So far, only tests on animals show that certain ingredients in wine and beer can prevent some diseases. No evidence so far is that a person has been free of cancer, his life because he drank a glass of red wine every day. For there can be many other reasons. Most people who drink little alcohol, live healthier, for example: They eat better and exercise more. This can also prevent cancer.
So it is very questionable whether you were really helps a glass of red wine a day to a long life. In the long run, perhaps this small amount of alcohol for your body is already too much. Because each person reacts differently.
The America Society for Nutrition gets its information on what it considers “medically acceptable”, the average healthy people. After that, women should not exceed 10 grams, men take no more than 20 grams of alcohol a day to himself. But if you actually do every night, there is a risk that you will exceed this level more often.
Red wine is good for the heart – but also grapes
Who speaks his beautiful wine consumption with a reference to the healthy plant compounds in the grapes, against the experts think: Each grape is healthier than a glass of wine! For the wine contains alcohol, not just the fabled polyphenols. These secondary metabolites are also present in vegetables and fruit and even chocolate. They help the body to trap toxic oxygen radicals better. Cells to age more slowly and thus likely to clog arteries less.
The secondary plant compounds may even reduce blood pressure. In the short term alcohol achieved the same effect: it widens the arteries, lowers blood pressure and improves circulation. In the long run, however, it increases blood pressure.
Beer contains vitamins and estrogen
Beer is also praised for its high content of vitamin B and folic acid. Both substances lower the homocysteine ??level in the blood. This amino acid damages the arteries and increases the risk of having a heart attack.
Beer contains hops, and this plant is considered healthy. Because its active ingredient xanthohumol can prevent cancer cells from growing – that was not so far been demonstrated only in animals. And you want included in the hop plant estrogens help for menopausal symptoms.
This can affect the casting material, but you would have to drink raw quantities of beer, a glass because not enough by far. Currently, researchers are working to genetically manipulate hops so that it contains enough of these substances.
Hidden alcohol
Many fermented food which is natural. This happened with bananas as well as in sauerkraut, rye bread or grape juice. Therefore, they produce small amounts of alcohol. The more mature and more a food is, the more it contains. One hundred grams of banana can contain two weeks after your purchase almost a gram of alcohol. Make you do why not make: take alcohol from natural fermentation processes usually only in trace amounts to.
However, many food companies to put food alcohol – the so-called carrier for flavors. This must be in the ingredients list does not mention. Manufacturers often use other names for alcohol: ethyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol, ethanol or ethanol, alcohol, alcohol, glycerol. Not infrequently include finished products such as cocktail sauces, marzipan, jam, bags and cans of soup or cake in small amounts of alcohol. In most cases, the proportion between 0.01 to 0.2 percent. This is relatively small compared with some grape juice contains up to one percent alcohol.
Addicts smell the substance
For alcoholics seem hidden amounts of alcohol only to be dangerous if you know about or consciously perceive the odor or taste. However, this is the case with many foods, because alcohol is to smell even at very low concentration. Children should not cost meals with alcohol flavor or aroma – not even a little ice cream with rum flavor. Because they could get used to the taste and then get the right mood for alcohol.
Many drugs are not without alcohol, be it cough syrups, drops of valerian or homeopathic remedies. Alcoholics should avoid such products, because the alcohol is in it high dose and taste significantly. For children there are cough syrups without alcohol. In homeopathic remedies help a trick to avoid the alcohol: Solve the drops in about 80 degrees hot water. The alcohol evaporates, the active ingredient remains.
Coffee
A café latte or latte macchiato, espresso or cappuccino taste good and help to persevere. And, the active ingredient caffeine is not harmful, as was long believed.
In nature, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide. The coffee tree protects it from pests. In humans, caffeine stimulates the nerves, the arteries dilate, the heart beats faster, blood pressure starts. Why coffee makes people tired, wide awake again. The effect begins about a half hour after drinking. In addition, caffeine adenosine displaced from the nerve cells in the brain. Adenosine is tiring, so excited by the spirit of coffee. Kick the can after about one and a half hours, all but the effect fades after five hours.
Two to three cups of coffee, most people tolerate quite well. Drink too much, your heart starts to pound on it or you sick. You may also get headaches when you have time to do without coffee. If you feel that, you know that this is the withdrawal. Who drinks coffee constantly feel, now nothing more of the stimulating effect. Because the brain gets used to the caffeine and adenosine receptors is more, softening the effect of coffee. So you need to drink more to be awake again.
Coffee protects arteries from calcification
When roasting the coffee beans caused antioxidants. These substances can make free radicals in the body may be harmless, thereby protecting against atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis.
The fear of dehydration due to coffee is unfounded. Even if you have to go to the bathroom more often, like your body’s fluid loss from easily. should also not worry you palpitations. If you are healthy, is dangerous. However, if you have heart rhythm problems, you had better do without strong coffee.
Espresso is easy on the stomach
Caffeine and tannins cause some people stomach problems. Digestible than filter coffee is espresso. But milder varieties are used that are roasted for longer. When preparing the water has not had contact with the powder, espresso, therefore contains less tannin.
Turkish coffee, espresso and the Sud-pressed against the pitchers have coffee at a disadvantage: they contain more diterpenes. This substance can drive the cholesterol levels in the air. When coffee is a major part of the diterpenes hanging in the paper bag.
Instant coffee contains less pollutants
Caffeine reduces the body, smokers will be faster than non-smokers, in men than in women, probably faster, faster in adults than in babies.
The America Nutrition Society holds three cups of coffee during pregnancy to be acceptable. A recent study points out, however, that doubles the risk of miscarriage even in two cups of coffee. Other studies, however, not confirm this result.
When roasting coffee beans of formation. This material had carcinogenic in animal experiments. You can check with consumer agencies to see if your favorite variety is heavily loaded with acrylamide. With two or three cups a day do you think the risk is low but in any case. Similarly, with soluble coffee, here comes with the acrylamide little bit of powder into the cup.
Tea
Only the black and green tea teas in the strict sense. Herbal or fruit teas are infusions of plants, flowers, they are not among the stimulants. Black and green teas vary in color, flavor and ingredients of each other. But they have one thing in common: they are healthy – if they are not loaded with pesticides. For the daily fluid requirement tea is therefore a good alternative to bottled water dar.
Tee suggests. Because it contains caffeine, but more than half as much as coffee. The caffeine content of tea varies tremendously, depending on the variety: Green Banchatee koffeinarm, for example, his brother Gunpowder is caffeine-rich green.
If you can pull the tea two to three minutes, the caffeine effect is greater than if you give him five minutes and longer. Because after about four minutes, the caffeine combines with the tannins of the tea. Thus, it is the body no longer available. Then the tea calms the stomach and intestine.
Tea may protect against cancer
The longer you can take the tea, the more polyphenols accumulate in the beverage. These secondary metabolites have a reputation to maintain the cardiovascular system healthy and help protect against cancer. They should also strengthen the immune system. The plant materials are in black and green tea contain comparable amounts. In addition, tea contains fluoride, the caries-protective to the teeth, as well as minerals such as manganese.
Green tea contains more vitamins than black tea because green tea leaves fermented not be so rolled and oxidized. Especially vitamin C and provitamin A are retained more. Green tea is also better against the so-called free radicals, harmful products of metabolism of the body that are believed to accelerate aging. In addition to green tea can inhibit the inflammation of the nerves.
Tea leaves are exposed to pesticides exposed – unlike the coffee bean, which is surrounded to the harvest of fruit flesh. Therefore, teas are often loaded with weed extermination agents. Organic tea contains less or no pollutants.