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New warning about Alcohol's "benefits" - wel_mel_2 - 10-20-2009
Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum
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SUNDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Just about every month -- if not every week -- a new study emerges touting the health benefits to be gained from a daily glass of wine or a pint of dark beer.
The benefits related to cardiovascular health have become well-known. A study released in mid-July, for instance, found that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in women by increasing the amount of "good" cholesterol in the bloodstream and reducing blood sugar levels.
But other studies have linked a daily drink, most often wine, to reduced risk of dementia, bone loss and physical disabilities related to old age. Wine also has been found to increase life expectancy and provide potential protection against some forms of cancer, including esophageal cancer and lymphoma.
But don't invest in that case of Pinot noir just yet.
<b>Experts with the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association say that though these studies do show some benefits to moderate drinking, the health risks from alcohol consumption far outweigh the potential rewards
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(<b>They ask you concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, and some profit for men; but the sin is greater than the profit."...
</b>Qur'an 2:219)
<b>Drinking any alcohol at all is known to increase your risk for contracting a number of types of cancer</b>, said Susan Gapstur, vice president of epidemiology for the American Cancer Society. <b>These include cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon/rectum and breast.</b>
"At the end of the day, if you are at very high risk for cancer, you might want to limit your alcohol consumption even further," Gapstur said. "It's a lifestyle modification you can make, and we don't have as many lifestyle modifications for preventing cancer as we do for coronary heart disease."
<b>There also are other health risks from moderate drinking, including liver damage and accidents caused by impaired reflexes</b>, said Dr. Jennifer Mieres, director of nuclear cardiology at the New York University School of Medicine and an American Heart Association spokeswoman.
The health benefits from drinking generally are related to the antioxidants and anti-inflammatories found in red wines and dark beers, Mieres said, but those substances can be found in a number of different fruits and vegetables.
<b>"When it comes to disease prevention, you're better off changing your diet to include fruits and vegetables and get your antioxidants and anti-inflammatories from natural sources,"</b> she said.
For example, people can get resveratrol -- the antioxidant found in red wine that's believed to provide most of the drink's health benefits -- from drinking grape juice just as well as from drinking wine, Mieres said.
<b>"For people that don't drink, not drinking is important," </b>Mieres said. "You can get the same benefits of drinking from leading a heart-healthy lifestyle. To me, it's not worth the risk to start drinking. But for people who enjoy a glass of red wine or enjoy drinking, the key is to stick to the definition of moderation," she said.
Moderate drinking is defined as one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men. What counts as one drink are:
12 ounces of regular beer or wine cooler
8 ounces of malt liquor
5 ounces of wine
1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits or liquor
Drinking anything more than that on a daily basis is known to lead to a host of health problems that can reduce your life expectancy, Mieres and Gapstur said.
"I think the take-home message is, if you don't drink, don't start to help protect yourself from coronary heart disease because there are so many other things you can do," Gapstur said. "If you already drink, you might want to limit your consumption."
Though the studies touting the positive health effects of alcohol are scientifically accurate, they also appear to play into people's desires for quick fixes to complex problems, Mieres said.
"To prevent heart disease, 50 percent of the work has to come from you," she said. "<b>Prevention is a big piece, and you have to be accountable.</b><b> You have to make lifestyle changes, and that's very tough to do</b>. People look for easy ways to get heart-healthy benefits, and drinking is an easy way to do that. It's a known human tendency: Let's find an easy way out that doesn't involve a lot of thought or work."
(Allah says more than 1400 years ago... <b>'O you who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination of Satan's handiwork: eschew such (abomination), that you may prosper.' </b>
Qur'an 5:90-91)
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New warning about Alcohol's "benefits" - AlShamms - 10-26-2009
Peace....
I agree with the above post. The suggestion for drinking a glass of wine comes from an antibiotic called Resveratrol. Resveratrol is a phytoalexin found in the skin of red grapes and is a constituent of red wine and has been shown to have health benefits. However like the above post, I do not agree that having wine should become part of a person's normal diet. Since we know that this substance can be found in red grapes....why not eat the grapes? Garlic is also a source of phytoalexin and its health benefits have also been documented.
I do not know what benefit beer and distilled spirits have (any any) as no phytoalexins have been found in them.
New warning about Alcohol's "benefits" - wel_mel_2 - 10-27-2009
Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum...
And that's why Allah forbade only the consumption of intoxicants and not just Alcohol. For example, eating orange is permitted in Islam and yet it it does contain Alcohol, however, if you multiplies the amount of Alcohol found in orange and consumed it, you won't get drunk, but on the other hand, drinking a glass of wine won't do much of anything, but drinking multiple glasses gets you drunk, and that's why even one drop of it is also forbidden.
Allah does not only states that we should not 'drink' intoxicants, but to avoid them all together, and that includes even buying it for someone else while you have no plans whatsoever to drink it. because if you don't plan to drink it, that doesn't mean you wont, but if you don't possess it, then you can't drink it at all, so all options are closed.
So Alhamdulelah for Islam.
Salam
Wael.