WHAT IS THE RELATION OF ALCOHOL WITH DIADETES?

[bodynsoul13]

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Alcohol and diabetes do not go together.Firstly,alcohol adds useless calories to your system which you have to account for in your diet planning.It spikes the blood sugar level immediately after consumption and after sometime suddenly drops which is not good for your over all diabetes management.As you are aware.all diabetics are subject to diabetic peripheral neuropathy on the long run and alcohol aggravates that problem.

[bodynsoul13 in reply to Hidden]

could you explain in simple laungage and a bit deeper pls

thanks warm regards

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medicinenet.com/alcohol_abu...

Please open the above link.Very nice and easy to follow slide show on the effects of drinking.We must understand that all the problerms mentioned there in get aggravated among diabetics

[gangadharan_nair]

Here are some other ways that alcohol can affect diabetes:--

* While moderate amounts of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise, excess alcohol can actually decrease your blood sugar

level -- sometimes causing it to drop into dangerous levels.

* Beer and sweet wine contain carbohydrates and may raise blood sugar.

* Alcohol stimulates your appetite, which can cause you to overeat and may affect your blood sugar control.

* Alcohol can interfere with the positive effects of oral diabetes medicines or insulin.

* Alcohol may increase triglyceride levels.

* Alcohol may increase blood pressure.

* Alcohol can cause flushing, nausea, increased heart rate, and slurred speech.

Some anti-diabetic medication may interfere with alcohol causing undesirable side effects.

Sources:--

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[bpraju in reply to gangadharan_nair]

i take 60 to90 wiskey every 10 or 20 days

is it ok for good health. if not ok what is the quantity

please tell me

[gangadharan_nair in reply to bpraju]

A major medical consequence of alcoholism is a person's much greater risk for brain attacks (stroke).

Alcoholism can cause alcoholic cardiomyopathy and heart disease associated with high blood pressure.

* Depression of the central nervous system.

* Degeneration of brain with loss of coordination and emotional stability.

* Addiction to tranquilizers to treat emotional instability.

* Physical damage in motor-vehicle crashes.

* Increased risk of suicide and homicide.

* Increased risk of unplanned pregnancy and STDs.

* Giving birth to a baby with fetal -alcohol syndrome, stunted growth, mental retardation.

* Poor nutrition from irritated liver and GI tract.

* Loss of sex drive.

* Neglect of food intake and physical appearance.

* Sleep loss.

* Severe inflammation of the pancreas with severe abdominal pain and nausea.

* Increased incidence of cancer. (A drinker is six times more likely to get mouth and throat cancer as compared to a nondrinker.)

# Alcoholic ketoacidosis is the buildup of ketones in the blood. Ketones are a type of acid that form when the body breaks down fat for energy.

The condition is an acute form of metabolic acidosis.

# Alcoholic liver disease is damage to the liver and its function due to alcohol abuse.

# Alcoholic neuropathy is damage to the nerves that results from excessive drinking of alcohol.

# Alcoholic cardiomyopathy is a disease in which the chronic long-term abuse of alcohol (i.e. ethanol) leads to heart failure.

Type 1 diabetes die 20 years earlier and type 2: 10 years earlier compared to non-diabetes.

Hence my personal advice is to completely avoid consumption of alcohol.

I am not a medical professional.

Sources:--

nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/enc...

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoh...

High Blood Pressure for Dummies by Alan L.Rubin, MD.

[damayanti]

How smoking affects a diabetic?

[gangadharan_nair in reply to damayanti]

Tobacco smoking is the largest single avoidable cause of premature death and the most important known carcinogen.

* It is associated particularly with lung cancer but also has a causative role in many other cancers, eg. esophageal, head and neck.

* 15% of all cancer cases worldwide and >30% of cases in men from developed countries are attributed to smoking.

* A substantial increase in cancer burden may be expected unless measures to control consumption are strengthened -- a consequence of the ongoing increase in global cigarette consumption, especially among women and in developing countries.

* Smoking cessation reduces the risk of cancer, but programmes promoting cessation have had only limited success.

* Passive exposure to tobacco smoke also contributes.

* Smoking is responsible for ~90% of cases of lung cancer and the relative risk in lifelong smoker compared to a lifelong

non-smoker is between 10- and 30- fold dependent on intensity and duration of exposure.

Type 1 diabetics die 20 years earlier than non-diabetics. Type 2 diabetics die 10 year earler than non-diabetics.

Hence my personal advice is to avoid cigarette smoking. Tobacco smoking is more injurious to health than consumption of alcohol.

Please note that I am not a medical professional.

Sources:--

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobac...

nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/enc...

nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/enc...

Oxford Handbook of Oncology edited by Jim Cassidy, Donald Bissett, Roy A.J.Spence and Miranda Payne.

[damayanti]

Mr.Gangadharan

Good information,Good motivation,Suggestions of this nature are most welcome,most helpful

Thaank you

Damayanti