Teach you how to drink without damaging your liver

Drink white wine and yellow wine warm. Fruit plate and watermelon are must-eats.

As the saying goes, "No party is complete without wine." Whether it's a gathering with friends or a work party, alcohol is inevitable. You can't avoid drinking, but drinking too much can't take it. How can you minimize the harm of alcohol to your body?

Drinking in moderation is good for your health, but drinking too much at one time is not good.

Intake of large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time will also increase the liver's oxygen consumption, thus causing acute alcohol poisoning. "If you drink excessively for five consecutive years, you will develop alcoholic fatty liver at the mildest, and alcoholic cirrhosis or even alcoholic hepatitis at the worst." Therefore, you must control the amount of alcohol you drink. How do you calculate whether your drinking amount is appropriate?

Regardless of the type of alcohol, moderate drinking is based on alcohol intake.

The study pointed out that under normal circumstances, the amount of pure alcohol consumed by men per day should not exceed 20 grams, while the current safe drinking standard in China is that the daily alcohol intake should not exceed 15 grams, and the intake of women should be less. A formula for calculating the intake is recommended, namely "amount of alcohol consumed × alcohol concentration × 0.8 = alcohol intake".

Liquor has the highest alcohol content and can be generally divided into low-alcohol, medium-alcohol and high-alcohol liquors. Rice wine is also a type of liquor. Low-alcohol liquor should not exceed 2 liang, medium-alcohol liquor should not exceed 1 liang, and strong high-alcohol liquor should not exceed 25 ml. Once this amount is exceeded, it will affect organs such as the stomach and liver and increase their burden.

Of all alcoholic beverages, wine has a relatively low alcohol content.

Low-alcohol wine should be controlled within 5 liang, and high-alcohol wine should not exceed 3 liang, otherwise it will damage the liver. The common original wort on the market is 11-degree beer, with an alcohol content of 3.7 degrees. The daily drinking amount of beer should not exceed two cans (equivalent to a glass bottle).

You may not feel anything when you first drink rice wine, but it has a strong aftertaste. Experts point out that the alcohol content of rice wine is between 8-18 degrees. Fruit wine is mainly made from fruits, and its alcohol content varies. Health wine also belongs to fruit wine. When drinking these two types of wine, you should also pay attention to the amount.

Even so, when it comes to banquets, one or two taels is always difficult to pass, and half a catty, eight taels, or even a catty is common. Since it exceeds the safe drinking amount, how can we minimize the stimulation of alcohol on the liver and nervous system?

Choose low-alcohol wine

Generally speaking, in equal amounts, strong liquor causes more damage to organs such as the liver than low-alcohol liquor. The alcohol content of distilled liquor in the world is generally around 40%vol, so it is best to choose low-alcohol liquor at a banquet.

Drinking white wine and yellow wine warm will cause less harm

During the scalding process, organic compounds such as methanol, aldehydes, and ethers will evaporate as the temperature rises. At the same time, some ethanol will also evaporate, slightly reducing the concentration of the wine and thus reducing damage to the liver.

Drink plenty of water while drinking

Many people take hangover pills before drinking. Jia Jidong said that hangover pills can only relieve the discomfort after drinking, but cannot reduce the damage to the liver. Diet can reduce the damage.

First of all, before drinking, you should eat foods rich in starch and protein to lay the foundation, but never eat bacon, salted fish, etc., which will react with alcohol and further damage the liver.

Secondly, when drinking, you should pay attention to drinking more boiled water. It is best to drink water whenever you have a break from drinking. Or order a glass of watermelon juice, which can speed up the excretion of alcohol from urine and reduce the burden on the liver.

Again, drink slowly and in small sips. Drinking all at once will not only make you drunk easily, but will also cause greater damage to your respiratory tract, stomach and other organs.

Fourth, between drinks, you may want to order a salad with radish. Radish can detoxify and reduce damage to the liver. Finally, when the fruit plate is served after the meal, you may not be able to eat anything else, but you should eat as much watermelon as possible to help excrete the alcohol.

If you feel uncomfortable after drinking or even get drunk, you can drink some honey water, fruit juice, tomato juice or celery juice, or eat some fresh grapes. Vomiting out the alcohol is also feasible. First drink some boiled water or vinegar water, then use chopsticks to stimulate the throat to spit out some of the alcohol, which can also reduce damage to the body.