{"id":1583294,"date":"2017-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/?p=1583294"},"modified":"2020-09-10T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T00:18:38","slug":"alcohol-and-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/alcohol-and-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol and Women\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"dissecting-our-collective-hangover\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dissecting our collective hangover<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you go back several generations, the emancipated woman wore pants and smoked cigarettes. But for the past few years, our fictitious heroines have moved on to sporting Manolos, with a martini in their hand. Warnings about how much alcohol should be consumed, as well as the implied health risks are constantly being communicated.\u00a0 Here are some more details about alcohol and <a href=\"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/5-surprisingly-simple-habits-for-a-healthier-life\/\">women&#8217;s health<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"cocktail-with-a-tie\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cocktail with a tie<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Men\u2019s alcohol intake should never be higher than three glasses a day, where women should limit themselves to just two. It\u2019s not about discrimination, but rather gender specific consequences. When equal amounts of alcohol are consumed by a woman and a man, the woman\u2019s bloodstream will be more saturated. Since we have more fat and less muscle than men, alcohol isn\u2019t absorbed as easily into our body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plus, our liver is smaller and doesn\u2019t metabolize alcohol as quickly, so we also feel its effects faster. This is why the line between \u201cone cocktail\u201d and \u201ccompletely smashed\u201d is usually finer in women than in men.<\/p>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uqxnt\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v66f4p\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v66f4p\",\"div\":\"rumble_v66f4p\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"an-intoxicating-yet-sobering-effect\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>An intoxicating yet sobering effect<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Booze will not only give you a serious headache. In fact, scientific research shows a prevalence of breast cancer in women who drink more than one glass a day. On top of all the diseases associated with its consumption, alcohol intake could also increase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.ca\/en\/?region=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer<\/a> risk by up to 52%.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"why-ladies-why\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why, ladies, why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Increased alcohol intake in women can be explained through several factors, including the role that women must fill in society today, and the pressures that come with it. We must be career women, fashionistas, exercise, be the perfect wife and perfect mother. For many women, a glass of wine at the end of the day has become a release\u2014a precious moment to ourselves.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"a-worrisome-phenomenon\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A worrisome phenomenon<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We all know it: alcohol isn\u2019t absorbed as quickly when your stomach is full. Some women grasped this concept early on and a new (and absolutely frightening) movement was born. More and more specialists are talking about alcoholrexia when a person\u2014often a woman\u2014doesn\u2019t eat enough in order to be able to drink more. Because alcohol is high in calories, younger women go as far as denying themselves food so they can indulge in more glasses of wine, beer or spirits.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"when-one-glass-becomes-a-bottle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>When one glass becomes a bottle\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, the statistics prove that more and more women are drinking a little too much. Women from several countries have contributed to making abstinence trendy; sexy, even. And there are so many advantages of reducing alcohol intake: better sleep, more energy, and weight loss. Finally, summer is on its way, with its warm days, and hot nights that will tempt many of us to have drinks on a patio until the wee hours of the morning. Why not try practicing moderation by trading in your mojito for an Italian soda? You might not last all night, but you\u2019ll definitely have more energy to get out of bed the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Dissecting our collective hangover If you go back several generations, the emancipated woman wore pants and smoked cigarettes. But for the past few years, our fictitious heroines have moved on&hellip;<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/alcohol-and-womens-health\/\" class=\"button button-primary button-effect\"><span>View Post<\/span><span><i class=\"cs-icon cs-icon-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1601599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1165,7360,7356,7361,7359,7357,175,7358,456],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1583294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-alcohol-consumption","10":"tag-alcohol-effects","11":"tag-alcoholrexia","12":"tag-diseases-caused-by-alcohol","13":"tag-risks-of-drinking-alcohol","14":"tag-wellness","15":"tag-women-and-drinking","16":"tag-womens-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601601,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583294\/revisions\/1601601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583294"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=1583294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}