Amitava Dasgupta

The Science of Drinking (eBook, ePUB)

How Alcohol Affects Your Body and Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scientific research has clearly established that drinking in moderation has many health benefits, including maintaining a healthy heart. Yet, many people do not know that drinking red wine protects the heart more than white wine, while beer, margaritas, and hard liquor are less effective in providing such protection. And while alcoholism is a serious problem requiring medical and psychological treatment, for those who are not addicted, drinking alcohol is not necessarily a bad habit. The problem is to distinguish between drinking sensibly and drinking insensibly. Dasgupta clearly outlines what constitutes healthy drinking and its attendant health benefits, offers advice on how to drink responsibly, and provides insight into just how alcohol works on the brain and the body. After reading this book, readers will enjoy their next drink with a fuller and safer understanding of why they''re enjoying it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442204119
• Artikelnr.: 38306735

Autorenporträt

Amitava Dasgupta, PhD,is a tenured full professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston. He has published 221 scientific papers, wrote many invited review articles and abstracts, edited, co-edited, co-authored and authored a total of 21 books, including Science of Drinking: How Alcohol Affects Your Body and Mind (R&L, 2011). He is on the Editorial Board of five major medical journals including American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is the recipient of 2009 Irvine Sunshine Award from the International Association for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology. He also received Outstanding Contribution to Education Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Chapter 1. Alcohol Use and Abuse: Past and Present
2 Chapter 2. How does the body handle alcohol? A Guide to Drinking Sensibly
and Avoiding DWI.
3 Chapter 3. How Alcohol Affects the Human Mind
4 Chapter 4. Can Alcohol Prevent Heart Disease and Other Illnesses?
5 Chapter 5. Genetic Makeup and Alcohol Addiction: Harmful Effects of
Alcohol
6 Chapter 6. Markers of Alcohol Abuse in Blood
7 Chapter 7. Loopholes of Alcohol Testing: Breath Analyzer vs Blood Alcohol
and DWI
8 Chapter 8. Pharmaceuticals, Drugs of Abuse and Alcohol: A Potential
Deadly Mix
9 Chapter 9. Workplace Alcohol and Drug Testing: When not to drink at all
10 Chapter 10. Why not to drink at all when you are pregnant
11 Chapter 11. Dangers of Moonshine Whiskey and Related Liquors
12 Chapter 12. More Dangerous than Alcohol: Methanol and Antifreeze