The 10 Minute Guide to Alcohol and Nutrition

To maintain body structure and function to the power supply: a process of performing two nutritional purposes. Food and supplies energy expended or provide the necessary building blocks to replace the damaged cells with the nutrients needed for bodily functions. Alcohol is often limited to the quantity of essential nutrients and eating badly affect both the maintenance of energy supply and maintenance structure. Furthermore, removal of the alcoholic affects digestion, storage, use, and nutrients interferes with the nutritional process.
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Disorders of digestion and utilization of nutrients

Once ingested, the food must be digested (broken down into small components), so that can be used for energy and maintenance of the body structure and function. Digestion with the help of the pancreas begins in the mouth, which continues in the stomach and intestines. In the absorption of food nutrients absorbed from the pipe into the blood, it is transported to the liver. The liver is then immediately ready for use or storage, and a nutrient for later use.

Alcohol inhibits the breakdown of nutrients in possible by reducing the secretion of digestive enzymes from the pancreas molecules. Alcohol inhibits the absorption of nutrients and release the transport of some nutrients to the cells lining the stomach and internal damage to the blood. Also, malnutrition itself can lead to absorption problem. For example, folic acid deficiency and then water absorption and glucose to change the damaged gut cells and added nutrients to folic acids, such as sodium three lining.

Can prevent nutrient digestion and absorption of alcohol change, even if used entirely own transmission, storage, anexcretion. . These vitamins A guide, and malnutrition. The liver stores vitamins reduce alcohol increased nutrients like fat indicator emissions.

Alcohol and Energy Supply

Found in three essential nutritional components - carbohydrates, proteins, and fats - which is used after conversion into a single power product. Some alcoholics tend to ignore important food intake , many of 50% of their total daily calories alcohol.

Even if the proper food intake, can inhibit the mechanism body resulting alcohol to regulate the levels of blood sugar (glucose is the primary sugar in the body) is increased or reduced blood glucose.aused by the failure of insulin secretion - Diabetes alcohol addiction without the usual preliminary results, increased blood sugar, or hyperglycemia. Reduce blood sugar, or hypoglycemia can cause serious injury, even if this condition is short-lived. The person fasting or malnutrition can cause low blood sugar when consumed with alcohol. If no food to supply the energy stored being depleted sugar, metabolite Alcohol inhibits the formation of glucose from other compounds such as amino acid 7. As a result, alcohol causes the brain and other tissues private body glucose necessary for energy function.

Alcohol is used for energy more complex than can be explained by the power source, wherein the main body and single value alcohol conversion process but 8. For example, is providing an average of 20% the calories in the diet of the first three minutes alcohol consumption, and we expect that the amount spent many drinkers to be obese. Instead, national data despite higher caloric intake, drinkers indicates that there are more obese than non-drinkers (9, 10). Furthermore, WH ES alcohol calories carbohydrate, calorie substitutes subjects (Abstract 8) tend to lose weight, indicating that alcohol induces less energy than food.

Accounting mechanisms clear of energy conversion efficiency alcohol is complex and incompletely understood to 11. However, there are several mechanisms have been proposed. For example, the chronic alcoholic drinking metabolism inefficient system to activate the oxidation system micro-ethanol (MEOS) (1). Most of the energy metabolism is driven MEOS alcohol is lost as heat to power the body effects of alcohol on the body.

Maintaining the structure and function of cells and Alcohol

structure

Because the cell is generally made from a protein, cells suitable dietary protein will be damaged; it is essential to maintain the structure of the particular cells. It indicates that the study of disorders of dthe igestive amino protein-small intestine, liver and secretion of the protein by amino acid synthesis and disorders damaged protein amino acid, treatment of diseases in amino acid between alcohol affects protein nutrition.

function

Nutrients are essential for the proper function of the body; Protein, vitamins, and minerals provide the necessary to carry out properly the body tools. Alcohol may interfere with the functionality of the body for taking the required machines to metabolize nutrients caused by a nutritional deficiency.

Vitamins. Vitamins are essential in maintaining the growth and normal metabolism due to control many physiological processes. Many vitamins and reduced food intake due to chronic lack of drinking too much, and in some cases are associated with damage to the absorption, metabolism, and utilization. For example, alcohols by inhibiting fat absorption, fat inhibit the absorption of vitamins A, E, and D to be absorbed with a Vitamin A deficiency can be associated with night blindness; vitamin D deficiency is associated with softening of the bones.

Vitamins A, C, D, E, K, also part of the vitamin B alcoholics are deficient, are involved in the maintenance (14) of all cells and wound healing. Vitamin K, especially vitamin deficiency can cause delayed clotting because it is necessary for blood clotting and cause excessive bleeding. Deficiency of other vitamins involved in brain function may be severe neurological damage.

Carbonated water lack of minerals such does not seem to affect the absorption of alcohol, but calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc minerals (15) is common in alcoholics. Preferably, the failure occurs secondary to other problems related to alcohol: decreased absorption of calcium due to fat malabsorption; Due to the lack of magnesium, it decreased urinary intake, vomiting, diarrhea (16) increases; Iron deficiency is associated with gastrointestinal bleeding; Losses associated with malabsorption of zinc or other nutrient deficiency (17). Mineral deficiencies can cause a variety of health outcomes of calcium-related bone disease and blindness related skin lesions zinc night.

Alcohol, malnutrition and medical complications

Liver diseases

Alcoholic liver damage is caused primarily by alcohol itself; poor nutrition may increase the risk of liver damage related to alcohol. For example, the nutrients generally are known to be affected by the beverage in the liver, such as an essential source of carotenoids, vitamin E compounds vitamin A (18,19). Reducing these nutrients may play a role in liver damage related to alcohol.

pancreatitis

Research Although malnutrition may increase the risk of developing alcoholic pancreatitis, conducted outside the United States some studies, it is recommended that you connect pancreatitis more closely with overfeeding. Preliminary studies effects of alcohol on the pancreas harmful suggest that there may be exacerbate by the diet deficient in protein (22).

brain

Nutritional deficiencies can have severe and lasting effects on brain function. In particular, alcohol is often thiamine deficiency can lead to serious neurological problems, memory loss in these damaged / Wernicke Korsakov movement syndrome.

pregnancy

Alcohol has a direct toxic effect on the cause of congenital disabilities related to alcohol, including fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal development. Although alcohol itself toxic to the fetus, accompanying nutritional deficiency can affect the risk of damage to the event for the synthesis of fetal development.

Nutritional needs during pregnancy are more normal 10 to 30%; Food intake can increase to 140% to cover all the needs of the mother and fetus (24). You can not only affect fetal nutrition adversely change the nutritional deficiencies of an alcoholic mother, but the alcohol itself can also restrict the flow of diet to the fetus.

The nutritional status of Alcohol

The physical measurement of the thickness of skin fold for estimating reserves weight, height, mass and fat techniques for evaluating nutritional status, and no blood test is performed to provide a measure of the protein circulating, vitamins and minerals. These techniques tend to be inaccurate; there is a bright " off" to allow many shortcomings precise points (4) nutrient definition. Consequently, it is hampered by the limitations of technology for evaluating the nutrient status of alcohol. Diet is a nutritional deficiency state can provide information on the risk of speculative development. The dietary state is making conscious patient history and evaluation to assess the amount and type of food they eat.

Difficult to determine the dose more than the threshold for starting to affect nutritional alcohol negatively. In general, regular drinkers (two drinks a day or less) likely to be exposed to a risk of nutritional deficiencies. Various medical disorders are more begin to appear at a high level.

Research indicates that even most of the heaviest drinkers have some sense, but malnutrition can be a lot of alcoholism experienced severe malnutrition (1,12) hospitalized for complications of alcoholism. Often, calcium and iron (6,9,26) enough carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins A and C, vitamin B, eat less than the amount of feed required to provide mineral - Alcoholism tends to eat correctly - a significant concern is the ability to move people with mild to the influence of alcohol, severe malnutrition in food digestion and nutrient utilization malnutrition.