Tangible Advantages to an Alcohol-Free Lifestyle

Among the tangible advantages to your pursuing a lifestyle in which you completely abstain from any consumption of drinking alcohol (and I will be adding more information to this blog on a year-round basis) are:

(1) If you are pregnant and consume ANY alcoholic beverages, you needlessly increase the risk of your child being born with congenital birth defects such as a small head or a defective heart. Those individuals born with "fetal alcohol sydnrome," as it is called, are also at increased risk of being developmentally disabled.
SOURCE: Page 328 of "Mayo Family Health Book, Second Edition," copyright 1996 by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York City, New York.

(2) If you drink more than two alcoholic drinks per day, you are at increased risk of coronary heart disease. This occurs because of destruction of heart muscle and accompanying symptoms such as irregular heartbeat (arrthymias) or heart failure.
SOURCE: Page 329, "Mayo Family Health Book, Second Edition," cited above.

(3) If you are male and you drink more than two alcoholic drinks per day, you are at increased risk of suffering a stroke.
SOURCE: Page 329, "Mayo Family Health Book, Second Edition," cited above.

(4) Consumption of alcohol can cause cirrhosis of the liver in yourself.

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