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	Alcoholic beverage - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The concentration of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage may be specified in percent alcohol by volume (ABV), in percentage by weight (sometimes abbreviated w/w for weight for weight), or in proof.
		Alcohols of this purity are commonly referred to as grain alcohol and are not meant for human consumption, with the notable exception of neutral grain spirits.
		Alcoholic beverages have been widely consumed since prehistoric times by people around the world, seeing use as a component of the standard diet, for hygienic or medical reasons, for their relaxant and euphoric effects, for recreational purposes, for artistic inspiration, as aphrodisiacs, and for other reasons.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Alcoholic_beverage (3887 words)

	Alcohol Consumption Information on Healthline
		Alcohol abuse is responsible for 60% to 75% of cases of cirrhosis, which is a major risk factor for eventually developing primary liver cancer.
		Alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for many types of cancer including: pharynx, larynx, mouth, breast, liver, lung, esophagus, gastric, pancreatic, urinary tract, prostrate, ovarian, colorectal, brain cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia.
		Although moderate alcohol consumption is recommended to reduce the risk of heart disease, other lifestyle factors such as a healthy diet and exercise reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/alcohol-consumption (996 words)

	Alcohol Health -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moderate consumption typically means the consumption of 1 to 3 drinks of an alcoholic beverage a day; the number varies with age and gender.
		Alcoholism is a dependency on alcohol characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms, and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk).
		Alcoholism is a life-threatening problem that often ends in death, particularly through liver, pancreatic, or kidney disease, internal bleeding, brain deterioration, alcohol poisoning and suicide.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/3/alcohol-health.html (1717 words)

	Alcohol: Summary of ALCOHOL: Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
		Alcohol consumption can harm health as well as social relations, but the nature and the severity of the effects depend on both the amount of alcohol consumed over time, and the pattern of drinking.
		Alcohol can cause physical, mental and social effects, which are determined by both the amount of alcohol consumed and the pattern of drinking.
		Alcohol consumption also clearly increases the risk of some cancers (including lip, tongue, throat, oesophagus, liver, and breast cancer).
	www.greenfacts.org /alcohol/index.htm (1600 words)

	Alcohol and Public Health - FAQs
		Alcohol is metabolized in the liver by enzymes, however, the liver can only metabolize a small amount of alcohol at a time, leaving the excess alcohol to circulate throughout the body.
		Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is a diagnosable disease characterized by several factors including a strong craving for alcohol, continued use despite harm or personal injury, the inability to limit drinking, physical illness when drinking stops, and the need to increase the amount drunk in order to feel the effects (4).
		Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking that results in harm to one’s health, interpersonal relationships or ability to work.
	www.cdc.gov /alcohol/faqs.htm (1626 words)

	Medical Reports - General Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The regular consumption of alcohol (beer, wine, or spirits) is recognized as reducing the risk for atherosclerosis, coronary hear disease (CHD), ischemic stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.
		While the association of moderate alcohol consumption with health benefits has long been well documented among middle-aged and older adults, this study is one of the first to study the relationship among young adults.
		U-shaped relation for alcohol consumption and health in early adulthood and implications for mortality.
	www2.potsdam.edu /hansondj/MedicalReports/GeneralHealth.html (457 words)

	Continuing Reluctance to accept emerging scientific data on alcohol and health by R. Curtis Ellison M.D
		Early Studies on Alcohol and Health and "Political Correctness" In 1974, after the Framingham Heart Study, being supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), had been in operation for more than 25 years, a report on the factors related to deaths from CHD was prepared.
		Deaths in that study attributable to excessive alcohol consumption were considerably fewer than deaths attributed to not drinking, with the excessive deaths in the abstainers primarily from their increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
		The advisory suggested that wine and alcohol consumption has little scientific basis for lowering heart disease risk, has many potential dangers, and that alcohol should not be advised for the prevention of heart disease.
	www.aim-digest.com /gateway/pages/moderate/articles/reluctant.htm (1985 words)

	Letter to BATF Regarding Health Claims for Alcoholic Beverages
		Health claims that promote the benefits of alcohol consumption are misleading because they fail to acknowledge the serious health risks associated with alcohol consumption.
		Accordingly, health claims could be required to include statements that cite the health risks of alcohol consumption, explain that the health benefits apply only to a discrete group of people, and list the groups of people who should abstain from, or minimize their consumption of, alcohol.
		Alcohol consumption may increase your risk of cirrhosis, mouth cancer, larynx cancer, pharynx cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, hemorrhagic stroke, injuries, violence, poisoning, suicide, birth defects, inflammation of the pancreas, brain damage, congenital problems, migraine headaches, seizures, and poor sleep.
	www.cspinet.org /booze/batf_labels5.htm (8365 words)

	Utilizing Culture and Behaviour in Epidemiological Models of Alcohol Consumption and Consequences for Western Nations
		That is, in Western nations where alcohol is consumed as wine, probably more often in integrated social settings (such as meals and religious ceremonies, and also cafes where family members of both genders and different ages participate) rather than in settings devoted exclusively to drinking (such as male-dominated bars), alcohol use is behaviourally benign.
		Cultural patterns of alcohol consumption have such integrity and equilibrium that trying to transform what appear to be less healthful to more healthful levels and forms of consumption, without sensitive attention to the cultural context, often is futile or worse.
		Klatsky, A.L., Armstrong M.A. and Friedman, G.D. (1992) Alcohol and mortality.
	www.peele.net /lib/temperan.html (4891 words)

	Alcohol Statistics: The health care costs of alcohol
		Alcohol use is also associated with homicides, suicides, and drownings-the next three leading causes of death among youth.
		Alcohol is the drug most frequently used by 12 to 17 year-olds-and the one that causes the most negative health consequences.
		For an estimate of the costs that alcohol problems may be causing your workplace, and suggestions on what a company can do to identify and treat costly alcohol problems, go to the Alcohol Cost Calculator: http://www.alcoholcostcalculator.org.
	www.marininstitute.org /alcohol_policy/health_care_costs.htm (484 words)

	ACSH > Publications >
		These people include individuals with a personal or family history of alcohol abuse; persons who cannot keep their drinking moderate; women who are pregnant or who are planning to conceive; and individuals who are taking prescription or over-the-counter medications that can interact adversely with alcohol or with other components of alcoholic beverages.
		Young people would not be expected to benefit from the consumption of alcoholic beverages because the causes of death that alcohol protects against (primarily coronary heart disease) are rare among young adults.
		The consumption of small amounts of alcohol on a regular basis is more healthful than the sporadic consumption of larger amounts of alcohol.
	www.acsh.org /publications/booklets/alcohol.html (590 words)

	Alcohol's effect on health of college students: Dr. Ruth Engs
		In addition health problems related to the immediate sequelae to episodes of heavy drinking such as stomach upset, nausea and diarrhea were used along with injuries and accidents.
		This consumption is similar to a national study of college students using the same questionnaire where the total amount consumed was 11.4 drinks per week for the total sample, 16.3 drinks per week for men and 8.2 for women (Engs 1990).
		A primary purpose of this study was to determine the effect of alcohol consumption upon infectious illness as an indirect measure of general immune function.
	www.indiana.edu /~engs/quest/aldo.html (3509 words)

	TTB Health Label Guidelines
		In February 1999, the Bureau on Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) approved labels submitted by several wine makers that included "directional" statements pointing consumers to their physicians or the Federal Government's Dietary Guidelines to learn about the health effects of wine consumption.
		Health advocates protested the label approvals, arguing, among other things, that the directional messages were in fact implied health claims that could mislead and deceive consumers about the health effects of drinking.
		Although a blanket ban on all health claims and health-related statements would have been preferable, we believe the regulations effectively shut the door to industry efforts to promote the healthfulness of drinking.
	www.cspinet.org /booze/TTBHealthLabel.htm (409 words)

	Moderate alcohol consumption and coronary heart disease: a review -- Hines and Rimm 77 (914): 747 -- Postgraduate ...
		Consumption of alcoholic beverages has been a prominent feature of many cultures since the ancient civilisations.
		The effect of alcohol on high density lipoprotein levels accounts for the majority of the reduction in risk of CHD, however, the mechanisms by which alcohol exerts its protective effect on the cardiovascular system are very complex and not completely understood.
		Genetic polymorphism of enzymes of alcohol metabolism and susceptibility to alcoholic liver disease.
	pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/77/914/747 (4253 words)

	SGVTribune.com - <span class="columnistHeadlineName">Raymond Scalettar: </span>Does alcohol ...
		Dozens of previous studies have shown that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease and heart attack.
		In fact, studies show that patients who frankly discuss their drinking with a physician (or other health professional) are able to make the most informed decisions about whether to include alcohol as a diet and lifestyle choice or abstain.
		Furthermore, drinking alcohol does not mean an individual can stop doing all the important things they already do or should do to reduce their risk of heart attack, such as exercise and healthy eating.
	www.sgvtribune.com /opinions/ci_4618336 (623 words)

	Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Vascular Health by Aafje Sierksma
		This thesis focuses on the vascular and biochemical effects of moderate alcohol consumption that might impact upon vascular health, in order to clarify the mechanism of CVD protection.
		The increase of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol by moderate alcohol consumption is looked at in chapter 4 along with alcohols role in reverse cholesterol transport (whereby cholesterol is taken to the liver for disposal as bile acids.)
		Diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes and alcohol are covered in chapter 9 and finally the fibrinolytic effects of moderate consumption in women.
	www.aim-digest.com /gateway/pages/book/articles/vascular.htm (252 words)

	Alcohol Consumption May Lower Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Yale School of Public Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The researchers reported that the protective effect of alcohol did not vary by type of alcohol consumed, and did not increase as alcohol consumption increased.
		Age, sex, family history of NHL, and history of cigarette smoking were not found to modify the effect of alcohol consumption on NHL risk.
		Previous studies examining the relationship between alcohol consumption and NHL risk have been inconsistent, likely due to small sample size resulting from stratification by NHL subtype and type of alcohol consumed.
	info.med.yale.edu /publichealth/news/june05/nhl.html (392 words)

	Alcohol: 4. What are the health effects of alcohol consumption?
		The answers to Question 4 are taken from: WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
		Consequences of alcohol use, Health effects and global burden of disease, p.35-58
		The Level 3 "Source" text of this Study is not available in html format.
	www.greenfacts.org /alcohol/l-3/04-health-effects-alcohol.htm (153 words)

	Alcohol Consumption Alcohol Consumption Health Topics - MedicineOnline.com - Medical Information
		Alcohol and Your Health: Weighing the Pros and Cons (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
		Alcohol Alert: Alcohol and Hormones (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
		Alcohol Alert: Alcohol's Damaging Effects on the Brain (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
	www.medicineonline.com /healthtopics/topics/Alcohol_Consumption (694 words)

	Alcohol Consumption - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
		Alcohol Alert: Alcohol's Damaging Effects on the Brain [ PDF Version ]
		Alcohol and Youth, Alcoholism, Cirrhosis, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Substance Abuse, Food, Nutrition and Metabolism
		The NIH funds research studies about Alcohol Consumption that you may be able to join.
	health.nih.gov /result.asp/21/21 (227 words)

	Preconception.com's Health Advisors Answer: How does the father's health, nutrition, alcohol consumption, etc. affect ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of course, the answer is not terribly different for women.
		Barring extremes, fertility is not terribly affected by nutrition or alcohol consumption.
		Certainly alcohol can damage a developing embryo, but there is no thought that it damages the egg or the sperm before fertilization.
	preconception.com /health/answers/59.htm (167 words)

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