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A SMALL STORY:
In a popular Buddhist saying, during the era of the Buddha a monk was
visited by a
woman who wanted to seduce him. The woman threatened to commit
suicide if the monk did not do at least one of three things she demanded: to
have sex with her; to kill a goat for a party; or to drink the alcohol that she
had brought for him. The monk thought very deeply and considered the
options. He thought that losing his celibacy or killing an animal was a
cardinal sin taught by the Buddha. On the other hand, not taking an action
would result in the suicide of the woman. So, he decided to drink the alcohol
because at that time Buddha has not taught anything specific about alcohol.
But when he got drunk, he killed the goat and also had sex with the woman.
This incident prompted the Buddha to prohibit drinking among his disciples
saying that alcohol interferes with rational thinking and is the root cause of
all evil.
problems, or to change their personalities. They have an inability to control their drinking, a high
tolerance level for alcohol, and may suffer problems at work or in school as a result. If your family and
friends are concerned about your problem, you should be too. It is a sad fact that an estimated 6.6
million children under the age of 18 live in households with at least one alcoholic parent.
When a person takes a drink of alcohol, ethanol (the chemical name for drinkable alcohol) irritates the
stomach lining, releasing acids. A small amount is broken down chemically, but most of the alcohol
heads toward the small intestine through an opening called the pyloric valve. Drinking too much
alcohol too quickly can cause the valve to swell and close, causing vomiting.
Alcohol should not be universally prescribed for health enhancement to nondrinking individuals owing
to the lack of randomized outcome data and the potential for problem drinking," the study authors
note. "Alcohol (ethanol) consumption is analogous to the proverbial double-edged sword, and perhaps
no other factor in cardiovascular (CV) health is capable of cutting so deeply in either direction
depending on how it is used.
One drink each day is permitted to persons over 65 years, because in their case, a higher consume is
more dangerous; the process of absorption needs more time, the effects are stronger, & the risk of
intoxication is a real one.
Pregnant women or people whose family has an alcohol related background must be extremely cautious
and, if possible, not to drink at all.
One important disadvantage of trajectory approaches is shared with all longitudinal studies:
Participants with different characteristics and group memberships may drop out of the study at
different rates. A noteworthy limitation of both normative and multiple-trajectory approaches,
compared with other longitudinal approaches, is that trajectory approaches traditionally tend to
downplay day-to-day situational factors that may affect people's likelihood of drinking, such as
negative mood or the peers a person is hanging out with on a specific day.
Imbibing Alcoholic beverages causes damage to the liver and kidneys. Even a small amount starts the
problem. The system considers alchol as a poison and works really hard to remove it from the vicinity.
This overworks the liver and kidneys and prevents them from doing their primary job. Imbibing
alcoholic beverages gets you in trouble with the law. Some people it makes mean and unreasonable. All
they want to do after taking a drink of alcohol is fight.
Alcohol should not interfere with medication at all, because in combination to aspirin increases its
stomach damaging action and the possibility of gastrointestinal hemorrhage, if combined with
acetamine damages the liver.
Both he positive effects of a reduced quantity and the dangerous, negative ones must be taken into
consideration. Also, a person shouldn't be influenced to drink, because no doctor will give such piece of
advice. Consumed with responsibility and moderation, in case of healthy persons, the alcohol doesn't
need to be completely eliminated.