The Truth about Alcohol

Wine, spirits, beer bellies and broken dreams...

My home country of Romania is number 1 in alcohol consumption in Europe. And number 10 in the world. As a reference, Russia, the usual suspect, is #16.

It wasn’t that inadequate eating habits that have driven people on the brink of diabetes, but the drinking.

It may seem surprising, but I don’t think the solution lies in nutrition or exercise, but in managing your alcohol intake. As in, work on the cause.

It’s like having a broken pipe, but you keep mopping the floor in the hope the flood will stop. The broken pipe is you drinking every day, mopping is constant dieting.

For most women, “I’ll have a glass of wine in the evening after the kids go to sleep” can mean eating perfectly, but ZERO progress.

✅ ALCOHOL IS CARCINOGENIC

Alcohol is a toxin. The WHO has classified it as a class 1 carcinogenic, right next to tobacco and plutonium (“There is sufficient evidence that alcohol causes cancer in humans”).

Moreover, on the 4 of January 2023, the WHO has stated that there is NO safe quantity of consumed alcohol that wouldn’t affect human health.

“We can’t speak of a so-called safe level of alcohol consumption. It doesn’t matter how much you drink, the risk for the drinker’s health begins from the first drop of any alcoholic drink”.

✍️ From the WHO: CLICK.

So let’s just cut crap like: “The doctor has recommended that I have a glass of red wine daily”.

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✅ TOP KILLERS

According to the WHO, the top 3 causal factors (unequivocally clinically demonstrated) for contracting cancer in humans are:

• tobacco;

• alcohol;

• obesity.

4^th place goes to having a static lifestyle.

✅ “I DRINK FOR THE RESVERATROL”

How much resveratrol is there in a liter of wine?

Red wine: 0.3–1.9 mg/L;

White wine: 0–1 mg/L;

Rose wine: 0.3 mg/L.

Source: CLICK.

So let’s say that 1mg of resveratrol per liter of red wine, at best.

There are studies showing some benefits of resveratrol, dosage used being between 500 mg and 5000 mg per day for various time periods.

If you are interested in studies, here you go: CLICK.

Otherwise, I wish you the best of luck in drinking hundreds of liters of wine for its resveratrol content.

If you want to remain a prisoner of alcohol, that’s your choice. But please stop using the resveratrol argument. It’s fake and you’re embarrassing yourself.

✅ BEER

Let’s get right down to it. Beer is for day laborers.

When you pay for craft beer thinking you’re cool…

It’s like paying for bio and organic cereal believing it’s healthier.

Cereal is animal fodder, no matter how much you pay for it. Might as well buy a whole sack of it. Might be cheaper.

Yes, you read that right. There are some cereal brands out there selling their products at Angus beef price. There are also ignorant people who pay for said products.

🏆 PRO Tip: beer is also made from cereal.

✅ SPIRITS

When it comes to homemade brandy and spirits, we won’t go into detail. I don’t think we have readers who drink such alcohol.

🏆 PRO Tip: just because you can’t find the calorie figures on bottles of alcohol it doesn’t mean these drinks have zero calories. They have calories, and quite a lot of them.