Alcoholics have vitamin C deficiency
Severe alcoholics very often have glaring gaps in their vitamin C intake. This was found by American researchers in almost 70 patients who were admitted to the clinic over the course of a year. Three out of four affected had vitamin C blood levels even below the limit that medicine defines as scurvy. The doctors not only treated the patients with vitamin B1, which is considered …
Addiction clinics: a mega-billion business
In seven years, clinics for addictive disorders and psychiatry will have a worldwide turnover of …
Alcohol to blame for more than 700,000 cancers annually
Alcohol causes cancer – but not only heavy alcohol consumption. Already two glasses of wine …
Binge-drinkers’ brains have to work harder to feel empathy for others
Too much alcohol changes brain function. For example, those who drink too much alcohol on …
