Good to hear, have a beer with your friends. However, if you are really good to live in, it is one too many. There are scientists all agree on that.

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for many Years, ‘were’ men on a daily basis for two glasses of alcohol, and women, a single pane of glass. However, in the guidelines of the national Health council is of the opinion, since it’s 2015: do not drink.

And if you do, keep it to one glass a day. Wow. A lot of Dutch people seated up there: 45 per cent of men and 20 per cent of the women drink a daily average of more than one piece of glass.

Is that a bad thing? Yes, says Arnt Together. He is a psychiatrist at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen, and scientific director of the Nijmegen Institute for Scientist Practitioners in Addiction. “Alcohol is a toxin that is not what we like at home. Actually, you would have to stop.”

alcohol Is really bad? < / p> for a Moment the physical and worst case scenario of drinking in a row. Rene Kahn, a psychiatrist at the UNIVERSITY medical center Utrecht, Utrecht, wrote a book about the effects of alcohol. After smoking, alcohol is the leading preventable cause of death in the world.

Alcohol is bad for almost all of the organs in the body. Do you really have a lot of it, then get the liver cells become inflamed, vervetten of them, and it will result in scarring in the liver. There are varicose veins in the esophagus. It is dangerous, because if those break, you are bleeding to death.

Almost all of the other risks that are not were problem drinkers, writes Kahn. If you have less new information to save, as the hippocampus is shrinking: the geheugencentrum of the brain. For this to happen, especially after a night on the go. And all of the parts of the body with alcohol to come in contact with, run the risk of developing cancer (mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, intestines, and so on.

Dry January < / p> In a alcoholloos exist, you will not be bothered by it. And there are even more benefits: you will be sleeping better, feeling more energetic, can and will save you money. Thank you, though, if you are in a month.

researchers from the Royal Free Hospital in London studied a group of moderate drinkers. The subjects took part in Dry January. This is an annual alcoholloze of the month after the festive season. Last year was as many as four million Britons are involved, as well as in the Netherlands, the ‘wet’ month, more and more widely known. After that first month, were the test subjects lost weight, their blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels will be reduced, as they were more concentrated and so they will be better.

“and Alcohol has a dampening effect on the brain,” says Him. “You are asleep, therefore, make it easier, but the quality of sleep is less, even if you only have a little bit of drinking. You will sleep less and less deeply, less time, and over the course of the night, often waking up.” A good rest will do you don’t.

and More bugs with drugs < / p> you have to Stop drinking, makes you more alert, and more energetic. The previous carried out by two of the co-workers are also a type of Dry January study in the Netherlands. Fourteen volunteers have stopped over a month with rubbing alcohol. They are drunk, normally, an average of a 10.5 drinks per week. Before, during, and after a month, they had all kinds of mental and physical tests. It was the fat in the liver, as measured to the subjects computertaakjes do it for attention and concentration can be assessed.

Him: “as For the alcohol-free month, were the subjects of the taakjes more quickly, but they made more mistakes. During and after the month they were to concentrate and be more accurate. And it’s work just during the day, when people are not under the influence.”

red wine do any good?
But it is, however, also be beneficial in any way? For example, a glass of red wine is good for your heart and blood vessels. “There are some studies that show this, but the links are weak, puts Him off. “In large studies of thousands of people disappear, which will have a positive impact.”

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It is difficult to stop drinking is not the social aspect of the job. It Is a great night out, food was quite nice, if you only have the iced tea, and bottled water to drink? “We believe that alcohol in social situations to hear in,” says Him.

“Alcohol stimulates your dopamineafgifte. Therefore, you will feel pleased and happy. You have to remember that feeling, but it is also the context in which you got it: a meeting in a restaurant, at a birthday party. We have to learn to drink alcohol, so tend to associate it with something positive. And by the time you get back to that setting, you would also like to have a drink with them.”

You fix again < / p> Does it make sense to stop with the drink? Or is the damage done to all of the organs don’t have to go back to running? Him, and his colleagues found that the subjects both mentally and physically get more out of the studies came up. The damaged liver cells to recover.

in studies on rats, which is the first of seven weeks of alcohol, and after a few weeks of nothing, break it, and the brain once again. The best workout for your liver and your brain, so it is very simple: you just don’t want to drink more.

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