Mäßiger bis starker Alkoholkonsum ist selbst bei Personen, die sich sehr nährstoffreich ernähren, tendenziell mit einer verstärkten Entzündung des Körpers verbunden. Die Studie liefert Hinweise darauf, dass eine gute Ernährung möglicherweise nicht ausreicht, um den schädlichen körperlichen Auswirkungen von häufigem Alkoholkonsum entgegenzuwirken.
A healthy diet doesn’t cancel out the inflammatory effects of alcohol, study finds
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**A healthy diet doesn’t cancel out the inflammatory effects of alcohol, study finds**
New research published in the journal [*Alcohol and Alcoholism*](https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agag015) suggests that moderate to heavy drinking tends to be associated with increased bodily inflammation, even for individuals who maintain a highly nutritious diet. The study provides evidence that eating well might not be enough to counter the harmful physical effects of frequent alcohol consumption.
https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article-abstract/61/3/agag015/8559473
Is this really a surprise for anyone? Alcohol is just not good for you in any aspect.
wait i can still get lung cancer from smoking even if i eat broccoli ?
>“These categories included nondrinkers who consumed zero drinks, light drinkers who consumed up to three drinks per week, moderate drinkers who consumed up to 14 drinks per week for men or seven for women, and heavy drinkers who exceeded those moderate limits. “
14 drinks per week is considered moderate?
Avoiding sugar, wheat and dairy foods is also beneficial as they’re inflammatory too.
Ethanol. Is. Poisonous. What is so hard about this concept? Any health benefit, whether from the drug itself or from anything else you consume or do, will be offset by the negative health consequences of drinking poison. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever drink—drinking is fun!—but these studies anxiously concluding that, indeed, the devil rum is bad for you are just silly.
Yep. You drink poison and it’s going to have negative effects on you.
How many units a day constitute moderate drinking?
But if it prevents you from going crazy due to the insanity of existence, is it really that bad?
Why would anyone think eating healthy would counter actively poisoning yourself?
Did anybody read the article? The study only included people who were overweight or obese, and It said that men did not show indications of increased inflammation from drinking.
Lets be real here were all going to die in a bomb explosion, pandemic or just general civilizational collapse/civil war.. to be polished off by religious fanatics or drones with flamethrowers.
Robotic dogs mauling you in a field somewhere or just giant armored vehicles running you over.
Nobody’s getting out of this coming hellscape peacefully.. might as well enjoy your glass of pinot!
I’ve seen quite a bit of research that what matters most, more than diet or alcohol consumption, is regular exercise. Essentially, you’re better off to exercise regularly and drink moderately than to be sedentary and sober.
Obviously no alcohol, a good diet, and regular exercise are best but it seems like the most important one is consistent exercise.
I’m curious how exercise fits into this. Isn’t exercise linked to lower inflammation?
My alcoholism combined with eczema finally caught up with me, I had to quit drinking. I eat a very healthy diet but you for sure cannot out eat drinking everyday.
If you’re overweight, you likely have a fatty liver. Fat inhibits the liver’s regenerative abilities. Alcohol is very liver damaging. The damage it causes is hard enough to repair with a healthy liver. A fatty liver can’t keep up. All-else-equal, an inhibited liver is of course not going to heal as quickly, or at all, and over-time that damage builds up.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Was so confused, turns out it meant drinking alcohol.
Not drinking lots of water, and frequently drinking alcohol
I am not overweight like the people in this study, but I did quit drinking about 3 months ago and I had a massive reduction with my inflammation. I had bad arthritis in my knuckles and just in the last few weeks it’s nearly gone away. My BP has gone from borderline high to the very low range.
If you stop drinking and don’t feel any drastic health changes right away- please be patient. It takes a long time for your body to recover, especially after years of abuse like myself. It took a month or so for me to see any major improvements. But I can promise it’s worth the wait.
A smartwatch pointed out to me the effects of only a single drink on sleep. I didn’t drink much before but I’ve tapered off to a beer or glass of wine about once a month now.
Tell the world not to suck so much then I’ll worry about my health
I hit 18 years without a drink the other day. I feel fantastic.
All i am seeing, no matter what the study try to say, is people cant stop themself from trying to control other’s people life.
I am quite sure no one argue alcohol have side effect, but it s a life plaisure we love to enjoy. We have mental health too in the equation, if we remove everything we love because they are bad for our body, we will just all end up killing ourself from mental breakdown.
I am facinated that we keep spending so much time and money in studied to stop people from having fun and plaisuee in life.
Yes i know we are in a science sub, but shouldnt study also take the mental health into account when doing study? It s quite visible that we keep preventing ourself from enjoying things and that mental health is degrading fast. Maybe not all things are completely bad. The gain is sometime worth the side effect i beleive.
Eating super healthy while drinking like a homeless pirate is the most ridiculous way to behave if your goal is overall health.
Like I eat a celery and it wipes out a weekend of binge drinking? I don’t think anyone really thought this?
But excercise is! Studies show active people show significantly less to no drawbacks from moderate alchohol consumption.
Yeah, well, that’s just like.. Your opinion man.
If wonder if the second-order socialization benefits of drinking may outweigh these downsides, especially if the realistic alternative is staying home watching short-form video.
As a recovered alcoholic, 7 years sober, I see mostly three types of responses here.
Group A: Hasn’t yet come to terms with their addiction, and will defend alcohol to the death against any attack be it science, family members or otherwise. I know this because I used to be in Group A.
Group B: Recovered alcoholics simply sitting in the corner nodding and saying „yep..“
Group C: Drinks maybe once or twice a year, and is thinking „Eh, OK… I guess I’ll have none.“