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Alcohol: Serious Enemy of Digestion
While some drinks like orange juice or sparkling allies that enable and ease the digestion, there are others that are very harmful and often blame the food considered heavy, but rarely do we realize that may be what you drink.
Why alcohol is harmful?
Hinders the process. Delayed gastric emptying the revolver with the diet, so people with slower or older systems should take into account this fact.
With sugar, even worse. Sweet wines or spirits to have higher sugar content as they also cause more trouble dealing with our juices. For some reason everything sweet is taken at the end, when digestion process has begun.
What are the criteria for substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, drugs)?
Here are the diagnostic criteria for substance abuse according to DSM IV (1):
A. How to use an inappropriate substance leading to an impairment or significant distress, characterized by the presence of at least three of the following events during a continuous period of 12 months:
(1) recurrent substance use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home (eg, repeated absences or poor work performance because of the use of substance-related absences, suspensions, or expulsions from school, neglect of children or household)
(2) recurrent substance use in situations where it is physically hazardous (eg, when driving a car or operating a machine when under the influence of a substance)
(3) legal problems related to repeated use of a substance (eg., Arrests for disorderly conduct related to the use of the substance)
(4) use of the substance despite social or interpersonal problems, persistent or recurrent, caused or exacerbated by the effects of the substance (eg, arguments with spouse about consequences of intoxication, physical fights)