10월 5일 (일) Tips for Drinking in Moderation Know your limit.

Tips for Drinking in Moderation Know your limit. If you are not sure, experiment at home with your spouse or some other responsible individual. Explain what you are attempting to learn. Most people find that they can consume one drink per hour without any ill effects. Also, experiment with the Drink Wheel, which is very informative. Eat food while you drink. Food, especially high protein food such as meat, cheese and peanuts, will help slow the absorption of alcohol into your body. Sip your drink. If you gulp a drink, you lose the pleasure of savoring its flavors and aromas. Don't participate in "chugging" contests or other drinking games. 3 Accept a drink only when you really want one. If someone tries to force a drink on you, ask for a non-alcohol beverage instead. If that doesn't work, "lose" your drink by setting it down somewhere and leaving it. Skip a drink now and then. Having a non-alcoholic drink between alcoholic ones will help keep your blood alcohol content level down, as does spacing out your alcoholic drinks. Keep active; don't just sit around and drink. If you stay active you tend to drink less and to be more aware of any effects alcohol may be having on you. Beware of unfamiliar drinks. Some drinks, such as zombies and other fruit drinks, can be deceiving as the alcohol content is not detectable. Therefore, it is difficult to space them properly. Use alcohol carefully in connection with pharmaceuticals. Ask your physician or pharmacist about any precautions or prohibitions and follow any advice received. Alcohol And Health Moderate drinkers tend to have better health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or heavy drinkers. In addition to having fewer heart attacks and strokes, moderate consumers of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or distilled spirits or liquor) are generally less likely to suffer hypertension or high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, Alzheimer's disease and the common cold. Sensible drinking also appears to be beneficial in reducing or preventing diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, bone fractures and osteoporosis, kidney stones, digestive ailments, stress and depression, poor cognition and memory, Parkinson's disease, hepatitis A, pancreatic cancer, macular degeneration (a major cause of blindness), angina pectoris, duodenal ulcer, erectile sysfunction, hearing loss, gallstones, liver disease and poor physical condition in elderly. Based on the experience of societies around the world, advocates of the moderation approach to reducing alcohol problems tend to assume that: The misuse of alcohol, not alcohol itself, is the source of drinking problems. It is import!ant to distinguish between drinking and abuse. Abuse can be reduced by educating people to make one of two decisions -- abstinence or responsible (moderate) drinking. Knowledge of what is acceptable and unacceptable drinking behavior should be clear. The abuse of alcohol should not be tolerated under any circumstance. People who are going to drink as adults should gradually learn how to drink responsibility and in moderation. Because of this, most moderationists propose that we abandon the current negative reduction-of-consumption attack upon alcohol and moderate drinking. There is much evidence that this negative approach to alcohol is based on questionable assumptions, that its policies fail to achieve their objectives, and that its policies may be counterproductive. Stop stigmatizing alcohol as a "dirty drug," as a poison, as inherently harmful, or a substance to be abhorred and shunned. Alcohol is neither a poison nor a magic elixir capable of solving life's problems. Stigmatizing alcohol serves no practical purpose, contributes to undesirable emotionalism and ambivalence, and increases the problems it seeks to solve. In stigmatizing alcohol, reductionists may unintentionally trivialize the use of illegal drugs and thereby encourage their use. Or, especially among younger students, they create the false impression that parents who use alcohol in moderation are drug abusers whose good example they should reject. Thus, their misguided effort to equate alcohol use with illicit drugs is likely to be counterproductive. Begin new policies that place the alternative of responsible (moderate) drinking on an equal level to the alternative of abstinence. Federal and state agencies should not unfairly promote one of these alternatives over the other; both are equally acceptable. Make systematic efforts to clarify and promote the distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable drinking. "The absurdity of defining only 'bad' drinking is analogous to teaching a youngster how to drive only by pointing out what not to do...." Firmly penalize unacceptable drinking behaviors, both legally and socially. Intoxication must never be accepted as an excuse for otherwise unacceptable behavior. While the criminal justice system has an import!ant role to play, the most import!ant role must be played by individual peers -- friends, relatives, loved ones, co-workers, and other significant others -- who assume personal responsibility. Permit parents to serve alcohol to their offspring of any age, not only in the home, but in restaurants, parks and other locations, under their direct supervision. If parents wish their children to abstain as adults, they need to serve as appropriate role models and teach them the attitudes and skills they will need in a predominately drinking society. However, if they wish their children to be able to drink in moderation as adults, then they, too, need to serve as appropriate role models and teach their children pertinent attitudes and skills for drinking in moderation. Promote educational efforts to encourage moderate use of alcohol among those who choose to drink. Moderate drinking and abstinence should be presented as equally acceptable or appropriate choices. Those who choose to drink should not force drinking upon abstainers and those who choose not to drink should have comparable respect for those who do. Research clearly does not support the theory that restrictive legislation is the answer to solving the problem of alcohol abuse. Alcohol problems will be reduced primarily to the extent that we, as individuals, take personal responsibility for our own drinking. They will also be reduced further to the degree that we effectively promote either moderation or abstinence among those with whom we interact. Question 1. There are many kinds of drinking manners in Korean culture. If we violate the rule, other people will get angry. Do you have any that experience without not your knowing ? And what drinking habits do we have to get rid of in Korean society ? 2. What do you think is the good points and bad points in drinking alcohol ? 3. what situation or feeling makes you to feel to drink ? And how do you feel when you drink ? Please give your vivid description to other oeople. 4. Drunken people often make mistakes. What were your worst mistakes? Let's share the story with Young-to membwrs.