Not to mention the fact that alcohol itself can cause considerable harm to health.
A rare holiday is complete without alcohol: a splash of champagne is strongly associated with joyful events. We will not demonize alcohol, but there are a few things you need to know about it: pregnant women and children are not allowed a drop at all, as well as those who have contraindications for health reasons. And it is important for all of us to be able to stop in time and not mix alcohol with products that are categorically incompatible with it.
Chocolate
Suddenly? But the fact is that alcohol and chocolate cannot be combined. Such a neighborhood is fraught with an acute attack of pancreatitis. The fact is that under the influence of chocolate, the outflow of bile begins, which passes through the pancreas and must enter the duodenum. And alcohol blocks the exit of bile, which causes an attack.
Kebabs
Charcoal meat is already heavy food. After all, meat is usually fatter for barbecue, and even marinated in spices or even in vinegar. Such food takes a very long time to digest, at the same time blocking the breakdown of alcohol drunk with it. And this means that there is a very high risk of going over, and the next morning waking up with a hell of a hangover.
Spicy food
Spicy kimchi cabbage, Korean carrots, hot sauce are indispensable companions of barbecue, and, in principle, snacks are popular. But spicy foods are dangerous because they slow down the breakdown of alcohol in the body. As a result, poisonous alcohols affect us for a longer time, poisoning the liver, blood vessels, and the brain. In addition, spicy food dehydrates, and this is the factor that significantly aggravates a hangover.
mushrooms
And one more shock – well, how so! That’s how. Doctors say that even harmless mushrooms combined with alcohol can lead you to a hospital bed. Under the influence of alcohol, mushrooms begin to vigorously secrete poisons, which very easily enter the bloodstream. Volunteers and morels are especially dangerous in this respect. The latter, moreover, are easily confused with their poisonous twins.
Tomatoes
“Love apples”, as they were called in the old days, are generally an insidious vegetable: firstly, not everyone can eat them, and secondly, they cannot be mixed in the same salad with cucumbers – because of this, salts are formed that settle in the kidneys and provoke development of urolithiasis. And in combination with alcohol, tomatoes cause, excuse me, flatulence and indigestion.
Juice and sweets
Any drinks containing sugar, any sweet treats – cakes, ice cream. Because of the sweetness, alcohol is absorbed more slowly, and this is fraught with “delayed intoxication” – you will understand that there is already enough when it is too late. In addition, alcohol is retained in the body longer due to sugar. This means that its toxic effect will be aggravated at times, and the hangover will be monstrous.
Soda
Cola, mineral water with gas, God forbid, energy drink – this is another strict prohibition. If you combine alcohol with them, intoxication occurs much faster – gas bubbles irritate the stomach lining, alcohol is absorbed into the blood instantly.