Besides the skin which helps us to dispose of our toxic wastes, there is our excretory system which takes out what our body does not need, such as excess liquids and food.
When it comes to food, it goes into our stomach, the food is digested and the remainder that has not been used goes down to the colon either to stay there for a short while or a day or even two or three days, sometimes a week or more before it is eliminated from the body.
How long the food stays in the colon depends upon a number of factors. One is the habit of flushing all the feces down every morning, afternoon or evening. Another is the amount of fibres in your diet.
If you have a habit of visiting your 'pleasure chamber' first thing in the morning,then you have not much of a problem.But there are people who are not in the habit of going to the toilet everyday. Some of them can even last for a week without having to bother about flushing waste down.
If that is the case, have we ever thought what could possibly be happening to the waste accumulated there in the colon, rotting there, emitting all kind of gas and multiplying all kind of bacteria and increasing the amount of toxins as a result. Would the toxins leach back into the body through the walls of the colon into the bloodstream into our body? Would not that add problems to the immune system and our health. That is exactly the reason why we have to remove waste as soon as it reaches its terminal point.
So as to avoid such a terrible occurrence, the best move is to eliminate all waste at the earliest possible, just before or after the next meal. Then, there would be no possible contamination of our body with unnecessary toxins. I believe three times a day is best and I have been able to achieve that with the amount of raw greens that I take together with my major meals.
Excess liquids which are not too much can help dissolve some of the waste to be removed through the kidneys and the liver through the urinary organs. However it is up to us to prevent our oprgans from deteriorating by taking clean water and nutritional liquids which do not tax our organs too much.
When it comes to the kidneys, there are a number of sicknesses that can cause renal failure. Other than those illnesses, we should ensure that there is sufficient blood flow as it is through good blood flow that toxins and wastes are brought to the kidneys for elimination from the body. Poor blood flow could be due to dehydration. It could, of course come about as a result of serious injury, burns, bleeding or even through blood loss from surgery. Therefore we should drink sufficient water.
The liver is another eliminating organ of importance. Yet we never think if its health. It's always heart, heart and heart but never the liver. And because of that the drinkers would take as much alcoholic drinks as they feel they can withstand. What about the amount our liver can withstand? What about the amount that can cause what is known as a fat liver? What if the amount we can stand is enough to burn the liver?
Well, I admit I was an egoistic drinker once during my heady young days. Challenging others just because I was clever enough to know how high I can go and stupid enough to think that I could beat them by secretly drinking some water and urinating out the alcohol. I thought i was great until God showed me how wrong I was. Thank God for that! One day, while I was at the hospital I met a middle-aged policeman who was observing his own shaking outstretched hand with tear-drops in his eyes. I was so moved that i just had to ask him what the problem was. He had a burnt liver from drinking alcohol drinks every evening. Since then I understood that was not the way I intended to go. So, I stopped drinking. But stopping is not as easily done as said. It took me a lot of determination and fighting off the "I know you can drink." that my well-intentioned friends constantly urged. Glad to say I won that round.
Sugar can be also a problem when it comes to a fatty liver. Since a fatty liver can lead to many problems and diabetes, we have to be careful about using too much sugar in our food and fruit juices. Why add sugar to fruit juices anyway? Furthermore, sugar looks like such an unhealthy food. Of course, not all kinds of sugar are bad as research seems to find certain kinds of sugar such as cane sugar and sugar from berries good. Whatever it is, limiting sugar intake is apparently a good move.
Well, obviously, looking after our body and its organs is just as important as the type of food, exercise and rest that we are so aware of.
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Shaking hands can never be still.
"He could not hold his hands steady at any time of the day. It was shaking the whole day as if he had been handling a drill for so many hours. So whenever he is at the shop for a drink, the drink would spill out, shaken out by a constantly shivering hand," my friend told me.
And when he told me he was a drinker, an alcoholic, I knew it must be the visual symptom of a badly burnt liver. However, the guy did not realise his problem as he was stubborn and refused to see a doctor about his hand. Finally, the guy died of a stroke and so to the end of his days he did not understand that he ought not to have drunk that much.
According to this friend of mine, Shaking Hands drank everyday and would urge others to join him in his habit. His friends knew it was not a healthy habit avoided him at such times.
My friend told me he once went out with the guy and he drank so much that by the time he was driven home he could hardly recognise his own home.Upon being asked whether the building beside their vehicle was his home, he said it most probably was. The friend had to dig his keys out of his pocket and see if one of them fit the lock to get it opened before helping him to the door and carrying him in.
For those, who drink they must first understand what an alcoholic drink can do to them. They must be able to control themselves and their drinking to safeguard their health and their dignity. I know what can possibly happen because I was one of those egoistic young men who enjoyed the thrill of beating other drinkers and the alcohol. I knew the high that it could bring. Fortunately, I also knew how to control it by lowering it each time with a big glass of water and a visit to the bathroom to have it passed out. Through this method I managed to stay sober enough to beat other drinkers. I also knew when I had to stop. But be careful, arrogance can meet a drink whose kick comes all of a sudden later when it is least expected. And it could be a knockout kick at a time when you are not safely home and opened to self-indignity or disgrace.
However, before any unfortunate incident could materialise, I learned how alcohol can affect our liver and having seen and understand its effects I stopped that stupid egoistic part of me from taking me from my path of good health. Furthermore, there was nothing great about beating others and the alcohol. We kid ourselves when we presume we could do those things. The minute we succumb to alcohol, we ourselves are already one step into a pothole. And the people you beat would never think you any better. As for myself, I am always aware that I could remain the last man standing because I cheated with the cups of water. So what is so great about that?
And when he told me he was a drinker, an alcoholic, I knew it must be the visual symptom of a badly burnt liver. However, the guy did not realise his problem as he was stubborn and refused to see a doctor about his hand. Finally, the guy died of a stroke and so to the end of his days he did not understand that he ought not to have drunk that much.
According to this friend of mine, Shaking Hands drank everyday and would urge others to join him in his habit. His friends knew it was not a healthy habit avoided him at such times.
My friend told me he once went out with the guy and he drank so much that by the time he was driven home he could hardly recognise his own home.Upon being asked whether the building beside their vehicle was his home, he said it most probably was. The friend had to dig his keys out of his pocket and see if one of them fit the lock to get it opened before helping him to the door and carrying him in.
For those, who drink they must first understand what an alcoholic drink can do to them. They must be able to control themselves and their drinking to safeguard their health and their dignity. I know what can possibly happen because I was one of those egoistic young men who enjoyed the thrill of beating other drinkers and the alcohol. I knew the high that it could bring. Fortunately, I also knew how to control it by lowering it each time with a big glass of water and a visit to the bathroom to have it passed out. Through this method I managed to stay sober enough to beat other drinkers. I also knew when I had to stop. But be careful, arrogance can meet a drink whose kick comes all of a sudden later when it is least expected. And it could be a knockout kick at a time when you are not safely home and opened to self-indignity or disgrace.
However, before any unfortunate incident could materialise, I learned how alcohol can affect our liver and having seen and understand its effects I stopped that stupid egoistic part of me from taking me from my path of good health. Furthermore, there was nothing great about beating others and the alcohol. We kid ourselves when we presume we could do those things. The minute we succumb to alcohol, we ourselves are already one step into a pothole. And the people you beat would never think you any better. As for myself, I am always aware that I could remain the last man standing because I cheated with the cups of water. So what is so great about that?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Alcohol can be therapeutic.
If there is control, alcohol can be therapeutic.
There was once a teacher whom I have known as a quiet, friendly and helpful person. I had always found him ever ready to help. With his ready smile, he was so approachable. He went about his work with a discipline few have. As such, he was well respected by fellow teachers and his students.
Yet, each night I found him at a quiet coffee-shop, all by himself, drinking his beer. For hours he would be there slowly sipping beer from his glass, calmly looking nowhere. Usually he was left alone to finish his drinks as it was a well-known fact that he only wished to be left alone. Then, late at night, he would go to his bicycle and cycle home to sleep. That was his routine, day after day, seven days a week.
There was never any violence or wrong deeds by this teacher. Even in his old age, he was found to be one of the most congenial person his friends and relatives had ever known. From my knowledge of him, he was one of those very disciplined, self-controlled people, an exemplary human.
You see, he had this unhappiness in his family, a best forgotten episode in his life. And due to that, he stayed out of his home in the evenings, went for his drink, nursed it the whole evening and allowed his mind to cool down before he tiredly returned home to his bed to awake the next morning refreshed enough to carry on with his life. Thus, in his drink he found a solution to his problems, problems that could have a lesser man boil over into rage and some dastardly vengence that could have brought some kind of undesirable consequences.
Perhaps this story has nothing to do with the therapeutic effect on circulation, heat and sluggishness of the blood stream and the heart or the heart-beneficial effects of resveratrol found in red wine made from red grapes. However, it did help one man retain his characteristic coolness and calmness to carry on with his life as well as he could. In that way alcohol did help him and therefore it can be said to have been therapeutic.
Nonetheless, I would not recommend anyone to imbibing alcohol unless it is found to be essential to his well-being for it has been found to be difficult to prevent from overtaking one's control and has been more problematic than therapeutic.
There was once a teacher whom I have known as a quiet, friendly and helpful person. I had always found him ever ready to help. With his ready smile, he was so approachable. He went about his work with a discipline few have. As such, he was well respected by fellow teachers and his students.
Yet, each night I found him at a quiet coffee-shop, all by himself, drinking his beer. For hours he would be there slowly sipping beer from his glass, calmly looking nowhere. Usually he was left alone to finish his drinks as it was a well-known fact that he only wished to be left alone. Then, late at night, he would go to his bicycle and cycle home to sleep. That was his routine, day after day, seven days a week.
There was never any violence or wrong deeds by this teacher. Even in his old age, he was found to be one of the most congenial person his friends and relatives had ever known. From my knowledge of him, he was one of those very disciplined, self-controlled people, an exemplary human.
You see, he had this unhappiness in his family, a best forgotten episode in his life. And due to that, he stayed out of his home in the evenings, went for his drink, nursed it the whole evening and allowed his mind to cool down before he tiredly returned home to his bed to awake the next morning refreshed enough to carry on with his life. Thus, in his drink he found a solution to his problems, problems that could have a lesser man boil over into rage and some dastardly vengence that could have brought some kind of undesirable consequences.
Perhaps this story has nothing to do with the therapeutic effect on circulation, heat and sluggishness of the blood stream and the heart or the heart-beneficial effects of resveratrol found in red wine made from red grapes. However, it did help one man retain his characteristic coolness and calmness to carry on with his life as well as he could. In that way alcohol did help him and therefore it can be said to have been therapeutic.
Nonetheless, I would not recommend anyone to imbibing alcohol unless it is found to be essential to his well-being for it has been found to be difficult to prevent from overtaking one's control and has been more problematic than therapeutic.
Are we in control where alcohol is concerned?
More than a week ago, I read in the news about a frightened housewife having to flee half-naked from her home after her drunken husband splashed acid on her, burning her clothes from the waist down. The acid had burnt the lower part of her body while her husband suffered injuries to his stomach, chest and right hand.
That was the fate of a woman for marrying a drinking husband who cannot control his drink. In terror she had to run out of her own house with her lower body exposed. Well, to be safe, do not have a man who cannot control his drink. A man who allows his drink to control him will always be either in danger or causing danger, sometimes even to the ones he loves. Nobody is safe as his mind and emotions are overtaken by intoxication.
Do you know that even for a person who can drink, a few glasses of alcoholic drinks can destabilise a person? Once, I was out with an old friend and we joined others in a gathering of ex-schoolmates, the old Frees (Ex-students of Penang Free School), for dinner. The friend was one of those who took a few drinks. As he was used to alcoholic drinks and a disciplined person who knows when to stop, I did not say anything although he was the driver and I was his passenger. From all external appearances, he was very stable, walked steadily to the car, talked calmly and was coherent in his conversation with me. He started the car and drove it without any indication of impairment until he reached his apartment. Then, as he tried to park his car, he discovered that he could not manage to park it properly, placing the car at a slight angle and a little too far out from the kerb. He drove in and out of that parking lot a number of times before he could have the car inside the allotted space. Even that friend realised it was the drinks which had affected his judgement. He told me he just could not get it done accurately so many times despite knowing that he had not parked properly inside the slot. He added that he normally parked his car at one go. That was how confident he was with his skill in handling the car.
If a guy with such control and discipline over himself can be destabilised by just a few drinks, what more with people who cannot control their drinks or themselves. When alcohol is in control of a person, he/she could commit deeds which may cause him much regret later when it is too late to undo the wrongs.
The above story about the drunk hurting his own wife is not the first story I have read or know about about drunks. However, there are people who drink and find it to be more therapeutic than harmful. That I will tell you another day as it is quite a long story.
Well, when I was young I did drink a little just for the fun of it but I was lucky to see with my own eyes the effect of alcohol on the liver which I have written about in an earlier posting. Thank God for that! He is certainly watching over me although it may be from a distance though I do not belong to any particular religion. Well, I do believe in Him and that is what counts the most. Don't you think so?
Okay, back to alcohol and its effect on us. Like everything else, I believe there must be moderation in everything we do or take. In small quantities and for those without allergies, it can be therapeutic as researchers are discovering. However, having control is important and since alcoholic drinks can cloud our mind, always be careful. If we have no control over it, the best thing to do would be to stay away from it.
That was the fate of a woman for marrying a drinking husband who cannot control his drink. In terror she had to run out of her own house with her lower body exposed. Well, to be safe, do not have a man who cannot control his drink. A man who allows his drink to control him will always be either in danger or causing danger, sometimes even to the ones he loves. Nobody is safe as his mind and emotions are overtaken by intoxication.
Do you know that even for a person who can drink, a few glasses of alcoholic drinks can destabilise a person? Once, I was out with an old friend and we joined others in a gathering of ex-schoolmates, the old Frees (Ex-students of Penang Free School), for dinner. The friend was one of those who took a few drinks. As he was used to alcoholic drinks and a disciplined person who knows when to stop, I did not say anything although he was the driver and I was his passenger. From all external appearances, he was very stable, walked steadily to the car, talked calmly and was coherent in his conversation with me. He started the car and drove it without any indication of impairment until he reached his apartment. Then, as he tried to park his car, he discovered that he could not manage to park it properly, placing the car at a slight angle and a little too far out from the kerb. He drove in and out of that parking lot a number of times before he could have the car inside the allotted space. Even that friend realised it was the drinks which had affected his judgement. He told me he just could not get it done accurately so many times despite knowing that he had not parked properly inside the slot. He added that he normally parked his car at one go. That was how confident he was with his skill in handling the car.
If a guy with such control and discipline over himself can be destabilised by just a few drinks, what more with people who cannot control their drinks or themselves. When alcohol is in control of a person, he/she could commit deeds which may cause him much regret later when it is too late to undo the wrongs.
The above story about the drunk hurting his own wife is not the first story I have read or know about about drunks. However, there are people who drink and find it to be more therapeutic than harmful. That I will tell you another day as it is quite a long story.
Well, when I was young I did drink a little just for the fun of it but I was lucky to see with my own eyes the effect of alcohol on the liver which I have written about in an earlier posting. Thank God for that! He is certainly watching over me although it may be from a distance though I do not belong to any particular religion. Well, I do believe in Him and that is what counts the most. Don't you think so?
Okay, back to alcohol and its effect on us. Like everything else, I believe there must be moderation in everything we do or take. In small quantities and for those without allergies, it can be therapeutic as researchers are discovering. However, having control is important and since alcoholic drinks can cloud our mind, always be careful. If we have no control over it, the best thing to do would be to stay away from it.
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