Guidelines and Demographics
A Standard Drink is defined by this specific amount of alcohol (in grams)
What is 14 grams?
Unlike many nutrients, ethanol enters cells through this type of "passive" transport.
What is passive diffusion?
Alcohol provides this many calories per gram.
What is 7 kcal/g?
The DGA defines "moderate drinking" for women as no more than this many drinks per day.
What is one?
his stage of life is the most important time to avoid all alcohol to protect a developing baby.
What is pregnancy?
For a man, this is the maximum number of drinks per day to stay within "moderate" 2020-2025 guidelines.
What is two?
This is the primary site of alcohol absorption in the human body
What is the small intestine?
Heavy drinking can lead to a deficiency in this vitamin, which helps you see at night.
What is Vitamin A?
For men, "binge drinking" is defined as consuming at least how many drinks within a 2 hour time frame?
What is 5 drinks?
In the United States, you must be at least this age to legally buy or drink alcohol.
What is 21?
A standard serving of this "bubbly" or "still" dinner beverage is exactly 5 ounces.
What is wine?
This metabolic pathway handles about 90% of alcohol when intake is low to moderate.
What is the Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) pathway?
Because alcohol interferes with Vitamin D, it can eventually make these parts of your body weak or brittle.
What are bones?
Women often feel the effects of alcohol faster than men because their bodies generally contain less of this.
What is water?
To stay hydrated and drink less, Harvard suggests drinking a glass of this between every alcoholic beverage.
What is water?
One way to slow down the rate at which alcohol enters the bloodstream is to do this while drinking.
What is eating?
Excessive alcohol use is a major cause of this fatal liver disease, which involves permanent scarring.
What is cirrhosis?
According to the 2020–2025 DGA, this group of people should not start consuming alcohol for any reason.
Who are non-drinkers
While heavy drinking hurts the heart, moderate drinking might actually help "clogged" arteries by increasing this "good" type of cholesterol.
What is HDL?
If a bottle of liquor says it is 80 "proof," its actual alcohol percentage is this number.
What is 40%
Individuals of this descent may experience "flushing" due to high ADH activity but low ALDH activity.
What is Asian descent?