If women are to stay healthy – don’t drink
Posted on | August 21, 2009 | No Comments
Recently London’s Daily Telegraph published a catastrophic story of woman who died of liver disease at the age of 33. She was a film publicist and this woman was a regular drinker, but not in excess, still unfortunately she died of liver disease. This definitely is a turning point for women who drink excessively just because they want to drink. May be a generation ago, women were not drinking at all, but now I would say most women have started the habit mainly to be in par with their male counterparts. Most women drink when they are stressed just as in the case of the film publicist.
Experts say that women must pay attention on the pattern of drinking because the body of a woman contains only less water content which helps in diluting the alcohol compared to men’s bodies. This means that woman reaches the blood alcohol concentration much sooner than men even though they drink the same amount a woman drinks. Just three drinks is enough for a woman to reach the intoxicated stage, but in men it takes more than three drinks to reach that stage. Studies by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism say that one third of the women in US drink. So, the safest way is not to drink and spoil your career as in the case of Kim Thompson, 34 who is at present a recovery alcoholic.
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