11 foods that shouldn't be mixed with alcohol
Winter came. New Year's holidays are coming with plentiful feasts. Most of our compatriots have fun lasting at least a week. During this time, few people can refrain from overeating and drinking alcohol. The consequences are already evident in the first days of the new year: malaise and discomfort traditionally arise as a result of excessive intake of strong drinks.
According to the results of the studies, the causes of health problems are not only the large amount and low quality of alcohol consumed, but also some dishes served as snacks. We bring to the attention of our readers a list of foods that should not be consumed simultaneously with alcohol.
Carbonated drinks
It is typical for the participants of the Russian feast to wash down strong alcohol with carbonated drinks. This is fraught with very unpleasant consequences, since carbon dioxide irritates the gastric mucosa and increases the rate of alcohol absorption. As a result, intoxication sets in very quickly, the person ceases to control himself and drinks much more than would be safe for health.
Those who are used to drinking alcohol with mineral water or sweet soda, over time, experience a severe hangover.
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Energy
Consuming drinks containing caffeine and other tonic substances together with strong alcohol can cause real harm to health. These mixtures contain carbon dioxide, which provokes rapid intoxication. In addition, they cause an increase in blood pressure, cerebral vasospasm, impaired renal function, the development of cardiac arrhythmias, and sometimes seizures.
For people with diseases of the cardiovascular system, taking alcohol in combination with energy drinks is fraught with such serious consequences as stroke and myocardial infarction.
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Pickled vegetables
Pickled vegetables are one of the traditional snacks of the Russian feast. Meanwhile, the use of preparations containing acetic acid as a preservative creates an increased burden on the liver and kidneys. When combined with ethyl alcohol, this increases the stress experienced by the body.
As a snack for spirits, salty vegetables are preferred to help maintain the body's water-salt balance and fight dehydration. And the best option is a vegetable mixture, which includes boiled potatoes (a natural adsorbent), beets, pickled cucumbers (sources of trace elements), sauerkraut (a storehouse of vitamins), that is, vinaigrette. Our ancestors, who ate the classic vinaigrette for a snack, discovered a great way to support the body during a feast.
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Fresh tomatoes
The fact that fresh tomatoes combined with spirits (especially vodka) provoke flatulence and other digestive problems has been confirmed experimentally. Apparently, some organic acids contained in tomatoes play a negative role in this case.
It is interesting that processed tomato products (natural juices and those made from tomato paste, canned natural tomatoes in their own juice, etc.) do not have such properties. Their use together with alcohol does not cause negative reactions from the digestive system.
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Chocolate
The combination of strong alcohol with chocolate overloads the pancreas. As a result, there may be intense abdominal pain, cramps and serious disruptions in the work of this organ, up to the development of acute pancreatitis.
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Cream cakes
With the simultaneous ingestion of a large amount of fast carbohydrates, fat and ethyl alcohol into the digestive tract, the body sets the order of assimilation of the obtained substances. The sweet component is processed first, which makes it possible to obtain glucose. During this time, the fats manage to form an enveloping film on the walls, which prevents the absorption of alcohol. The result is delayed alcohol utilization, prolonged intoxication and severe hangovers.
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Fatty fried meat
Animal fats and products of their thermal processing have a stressful effect on the liver, gallbladder and stomach. In the presence of alcohol, this effect is enhanced. For a person with digestive problems, such a "blow" is fraught with a serious exacerbation of ailments, and even with good health, a feeling of heaviness in the stomach and disturbances in the work of the intestines are very likely.
Lean meat (boiled or baked), fish and seafood are suitable as an appetizer for spirits. With a small amount of fat, protein foods of animal origin are digested slowly, while simultaneously creating conditions for the gradual absorption of alcohol. This allows you to avoid heavy intoxication for a long time and does not lead to a severe hangover.
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Spicy snacks
A large amount of hot spices in combination with alcohol can cause a chemical burn of the mucous membrane of the esophagus and stomach. In addition, this combination increases intoxication, thereby contributing to a decrease in the person's control and an increase in his alcohol consumption.
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Melons
Watermelon is rich in natural sugars. When they are simultaneously digested with strong alcohol, the same processes occur as when drinking alcohol along with sweets: glucose is absorbed first, and at this time the body suffers from toxic decomposition products of alcohol.
Melon, in addition to sugars, contains substances that, in combination with alcohol, cause increased fermentation in the intestines, manifested by flatulence.
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Grapes
Biting alcohol on grapes, one can expect a double effect: fermentation will intensify in the intestines and severe intoxication will ensue, because the body simultaneously with alcohol will receive a large amount of glucose.
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Coffee
Few people drink vodka with coffee, but there are a lot of fans of this aromatic drink with cognac or liqueur. Alcohol-coffee mixture creates the danger of a hypertensive crisis or spasm of the cerebral vessels, therefore it is strictly forbidden to drink to people with vascular disorders.
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In addition to foods that do not go well with alcohol, you should not drink different types of alcohol at the same time. The point here is not so much in the unequal strength of the mixed drinks, but in the way they affect the body. Sparkling wine or beer is recommended to be consumed separately from other liquids containing alcohol. You cannot mix vodka with cognac or whiskey in one meal. Strong drinks should not be combined with wines or liqueurs.
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Education: First Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov, specialty "General Medicine".
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