Alcohol during the festive season: be careful!

Alcohol during the festive season: be careful!
Extract from the article: Festive menus at the end of the year often include delicate wines, spirits, digestifs and alcoholic cocktails. However, it's important to note that alcohol can actually damage your health.

Festive menus at the end of the year often include delicate wines, spirits, digestifs and alcoholic cocktails. However, it's important to note that alcohol can actually damage your health.

The end-of-year festivities are often an opportunity to get together with family at Christmas or to have a party with friends on the evening of 31 December.In both cases, the ‘benefits’ of alcohol are much appreciated, as much for the extra laughs as for the release of inhibitions and the daring to reach out to others.

But while alcohol encourages sociability and increases joie de vivre, it can also encourage verbal and physical aggression during the evening, not to mention the fact that alcohol abuse is harmful to general health.

Alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death after cancer and cardiovascular disease. Alcohol is implicated in around fifty diseases. It is responsible for the development of cirrhosis, encephalopathy and cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract, especially when alcohol and tobacco are combined.  All organs are affected by alcohol abuse, the brain and nervous system first. It is also responsible for a large number of road accidents, accidents in the home, accidents at work and suicides, the majority of which are facilitated by alcohol consumption at the time of the act.

Obviously, when taken occasionally, alcohol poses little danger to health. However, care must be taken not to spoil what should be a warm and convivial moment. So there's no reason to drink in moderation.

William O.

Author
santé éducation
Editor
Abel OZIH

Festive menus at the end of the year often include delicate wines, spirits, digestifs and alcoholic cocktails. However, it's important to note that alcohol can actually damage your health.

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