Interesting info from NIH.gov/news :
"Unhealthy alcohol drinking patterns may go hand-in-hand with unhealthy eating habits, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Examining diet quality of individuals who drink any kind of alcoholic beverage, researchers found that people who drink the largest quantities of alcohol — even infrequently — have the poorest quality diets. Conversely, people who drink the least amount of alcohol — regardless of drinking frequency — have the best quality diets. A report of the findings appears in the February 15, 2006 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology."
I think this has to do with acknowledging the big connection to taking care of your body and feeling good! If you "get" that then you "get" it for the total picture. When you are responsible for the body that you are given then you are not wanting to fill it up with nutritiously bankrupt foods or harmful alcohol.
A great day of healthy meals makes you feel great!
Alcohol is not getting anyone closer to their goals - I hope I develop a greater appreciation for my health- through diet and exercise, and a deeper commitment toward taking care of this one body. It is counterproductive to weight loss/maintennance to take in high fat and or high caloric food or drink!
from www.extrametabolism.com Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7:12pm
Alcohol is simply bad for the body. It is bad for your liver, lungs, kidneys, heart, brain, memory and to your body metabolism.
When you refer to the collective biochemical complex reactions of any living thing, it is termed as metabolism.
Our energy is the result of our foods intake being broken down to bits and pieces through our body digestive system and being subjected to a rather complex biochemical process to produce sugar in the form of glucose that fuels the energy of our body.
This process by which our body produces energy is called metabolism. Our body has different metabolism, depending on the nutrients. We have carbohydrates metabolism, fats metabolism, and protein metabolism.
Drinking alcohol will give a negative effect on the metabolism of the body particularly to the aspect of fats metabolism.
The amount of energy that fats can give to your body through the process of metabolism is limited by the effects of alcohol that you take in your body.
The ability of your body to bring on lipid oxidation or the burning of fats will be greatly hindered by even just a small amount of alcohol. This was the findings of researchers and as published in the American Journal of Clinical Research.
Further research on this matter revealed that when alcohol passes through the liver, acetate is formed. And the body, instead of burning fats for energy will burn the acetate instead of fats.
The other bad effect of alcohol in the body is that it prevents the proper processing of vitamins and minerals which are needed in the natural function of metabolism.
This is because of the process by which the liver converts alcohol to acetate. During this stage, minerals and vitamins that are supposed to be processed by the liver will be over shadowed by the system of detoxification and would be wasted through this process.
When you urinate after several bottles of intoxicating alcoholic drinks, magnesium and calcium will be excreted from your body through your urine because of alcohol.
These two nutrients are needed by your body to function properly. Added to this will be the fact that alcohol will aggressively compete with other food nutrients to get absorbed into the bloodstream, thus preventing these nutrients from being metabolized.
Indeed, drinking alcohol is very bad for the body. So please, do not drink alcoholic drinks – your metabolism will be much better off without alcohol.
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