The Impact of Alcoholic Beverages on Human Health

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Public health and preventive medicine; acetaldehyde; addiction; alcohol; alcohol control policy; alcohol drinking; alcohol industry; alcoholism; binge drinking; body weight; brain; burden of disease; Canada; cancer; carcinogenesis; cardiovascular diseases; cirrhosis; communicable diseases; consumption; curvilinear; death; disability; disease; DNA damage; dose response; dose-response relationship; drinking pattern; eating dietary intake; effectiveness; epidemiological methods; evolution; fermentation; fetal; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; frugivory; global; gut; health impact; health warning labels; hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatotoxicity; HIV; Homo; hypertension; implementation; infectious diseases; inflammation; injuries; injury; intervention; ischaemic heart disease; labelling; lipid metabolism; liver; low-alcohol products; margin of exposure; microbiome; monotonous; morbidity; mortality; n/a; no-alcohol products; non-communicable diseases; obesity; one carbon metabolism; oxidative stress; patterns of drinking; pneumonia; policy; pregnancy; primate; production; protective effects; public health; review; risk; risk assessment; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; stroke; tuberculosis; yeast
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036541013; 9783036541020; books978-3-0365-4102-0
• Access: Open Access

Alcohol is often perceived as an under-rated risk factor for human health. This book corrects these misperceptions and misinformation by providing up to date reviews and publications that consider the impact of alcoholic beverages on human health in the domains of toxicity, carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, foetal toxicity, neurotoxicity, impacts of alcohol on the gastro-intestinal system (including nutrient deficiencies), cardiovascular system, injuries, body weight and communicable diseases. The reprint considers how the impact of alcohol on human health can be mitigated - through, for example, improved labelling on nutrients and health warnings, better policy measures, and actions by alcohol producers on their products through reformulation to lower alcoholic strength.