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Are there any personal experiences with this? I have read a good bit regarding the potential issues... and yet, too, much of what I have read has primarily been regarding the younger years of an individual's life. What about the older years?
This cannot be a small issue, considering... many women, especially unwed and unestablished are known to get pregnant and not be aware for several weeks, if not months.
CDC - FASD, Home - NCBDDD
FASDs are 100% preventable if a woman does not drink alcohol during pregnancy. There is no known safe amount of alcohol to drink while pregnant. There is also no safe time during pregnancy to drink and no safe kind of alcohol.
What are the board's thoughts about this? Is this really the truth? From what I have come to know, which is very little... The mother's drinking habits may not always be the determining factor of FAS.
Also, there is a potential of re-establishing the alcohol induced vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
June Russell's Health Facts: Alcohol - Effect on Vitamins and Nutrients
Effect of Alcohol on Nutrient Absorption Generally Alcohol interferes with the metabolism of most vitamins, and with the absorption of many nutrients. Alcohol stimulates both urinary calcium and magnesium excretion.
{Dept. of Health and Human Services, Report to Congress, 1990}
It is best to hold off on that alcoholic drink for four hours after taking your vitamins. Alcohol may hasten a supplement's breakdown in the stomach, perhaps interfering with absorption.
{"Health check," by Nancy Snyderman, MD, Good Housekeeping, Jan. 1998}
Alcohol reduces the absorption of food through the lining of the small intestine and interferes with the absorption of amino acids, glucose, zinc and vitamins.
{Alcohol and tobacco, americas drugs of choice. Information Plus, 1999}
Alcohol hampers the efficient metabolizing of fatty acids.
{"Get Health Now," by Gary Null, one of America's leading health and fitness advocates, 1999}
The presence of alcohol in some beverages may lessen their health-giving properties.
{American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000}
Despite an adequate diet, alcohol can contribute to the entire spectrum of liver diseases. Alcohol interferes with nutrient activation, resulting in changes in nutritional requirements.
{'Alcohol and Nutrient Interaction," Nutrition Hints by Betty Kamen. Source: the Annual Review of Nutrition 2000}
If alcohol is your soother, stress will hike your nutritional needs and alcohol will reduce nutrient availability.
{"6 steps for handling stress," Lauri Aesoph, ND, Health World Online, June 2001}
According to USDA surveys, fewer than two percent of Americans are following a diet with the recommended amounts of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
{Eating Right columnist Lawrence Linder, executive editor of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, Washington Post Health, October 24, 2000} Editor's comment: The use of alcohol negates availability of vitamins and nutrients, so if you are already taking in fewer nutrients than you should, as 98% of the population are doing, then it is even more of a risk for resulting health problems.
Food in the stomach will compete with ethanol for absorption into the blood stream. It is well known that alcohol competes and influences the processing of nutrients in the body.
{"Alcohol, chemistry and you," Kennesaw State University, chemcases.com, Aug. 2002}
A wonderfully helpful chart...
Drug Induced Vitamin - Mineral Deficiencies and Vitamist Oral Sprays
Anyways... It seems illogical to think that we can prevent every fault, every flaw that an individual may make, be it by ignorance, resistance and rebellion, or other... but it seems just as illogical that there are not ways to combat the undesired results of such decisions.
This cannot be a small issue, considering... many women, especially unwed and unestablished are known to get pregnant and not be aware for several weeks, if not months.
CDC - FASD, Home - NCBDDD
FASDs are 100% preventable if a woman does not drink alcohol during pregnancy. There is no known safe amount of alcohol to drink while pregnant. There is also no safe time during pregnancy to drink and no safe kind of alcohol.
What are the board's thoughts about this? Is this really the truth? From what I have come to know, which is very little... The mother's drinking habits may not always be the determining factor of FAS.
Also, there is a potential of re-establishing the alcohol induced vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
June Russell's Health Facts: Alcohol - Effect on Vitamins and Nutrients
Effect of Alcohol on Nutrient Absorption Generally Alcohol interferes with the metabolism of most vitamins, and with the absorption of many nutrients. Alcohol stimulates both urinary calcium and magnesium excretion.
{Dept. of Health and Human Services, Report to Congress, 1990}
It is best to hold off on that alcoholic drink for four hours after taking your vitamins. Alcohol may hasten a supplement's breakdown in the stomach, perhaps interfering with absorption.
{"Health check," by Nancy Snyderman, MD, Good Housekeeping, Jan. 1998}
Alcohol reduces the absorption of food through the lining of the small intestine and interferes with the absorption of amino acids, glucose, zinc and vitamins.
{Alcohol and tobacco, americas drugs of choice. Information Plus, 1999}
Alcohol hampers the efficient metabolizing of fatty acids.
{"Get Health Now," by Gary Null, one of America's leading health and fitness advocates, 1999}
The presence of alcohol in some beverages may lessen their health-giving properties.
{American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000}
Despite an adequate diet, alcohol can contribute to the entire spectrum of liver diseases. Alcohol interferes with nutrient activation, resulting in changes in nutritional requirements.
{'Alcohol and Nutrient Interaction," Nutrition Hints by Betty Kamen. Source: the Annual Review of Nutrition 2000}
If alcohol is your soother, stress will hike your nutritional needs and alcohol will reduce nutrient availability.
{"6 steps for handling stress," Lauri Aesoph, ND, Health World Online, June 2001}
According to USDA surveys, fewer than two percent of Americans are following a diet with the recommended amounts of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
{Eating Right columnist Lawrence Linder, executive editor of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, Washington Post Health, October 24, 2000} Editor's comment: The use of alcohol negates availability of vitamins and nutrients, so if you are already taking in fewer nutrients than you should, as 98% of the population are doing, then it is even more of a risk for resulting health problems.
Food in the stomach will compete with ethanol for absorption into the blood stream. It is well known that alcohol competes and influences the processing of nutrients in the body.
{"Alcohol, chemistry and you," Kennesaw State University, chemcases.com, Aug. 2002}
A wonderfully helpful chart...
Drug Induced Vitamin - Mineral Deficiencies and Vitamist Oral Sprays
Anyways... It seems illogical to think that we can prevent every fault, every flaw that an individual may make, be it by ignorance, resistance and rebellion, or other... but it seems just as illogical that there are not ways to combat the undesired results of such decisions.