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Alcohol consumption: Is there a recommended daily intake?
Dr. Amelia Stephens busts the myths behind “recommended daily drinking”
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I thought alcohol would give me confidence…
This is not your usual before and after story about alcohol; it is not about being an alcoholic and coming back from it, but it shares about my use of alcohol as a teenager…
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Alcohol – a scourge on society?
We know the dangers of alcohol use, and its ripple effects on society, so why is it we continue to drink it?
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It is never about alcohol
Most drinkers believe a little of alcohol is OK, but is it OK to not be who you truly are?
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Men and alcohol
Read how 5 men view alcohol in today’s society and what impact it has had on them as men and the people around them. Whilst their expressions are all different, there appears to be a common thread amongst them.
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Before and after giving up alcohol - Introduction
Everyone loves a drink, right? Drinking alcohol is fun, social, normal, even good for you… or so we have been told. But studies in recent years have shown what our bodies have always known… that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.
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You don’t drink alcohol? You’re no fun!
Recently I was with a group of people and the comment was made that “you’re no fun” because I had not been heavily involved in smoking tobacco, taking illegal drugs or drinking alcohol.
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Alcohol abuse – a 360° turnaround
How do we go from being repulsed by alcohol as a child, then addicted in our late teens, to then having no attraction to alcohol later in life?
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The effects of alcohol – listen to my thoughts or to my body?
The first time I can remember trying alcohol was when I was in my early teens. It made me very sick, but I kept trying to drink, to try and be like everyone else.
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Before and After alcohol: all around me to none
I grew up with alcohol around me all the time, it was normal for it to be wine o’clock instead of afternoon tea and I didn’t even know that it was not healthy to wake up and have your flagon of wine on the bedside table.
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Alcohol abuse – what’s normal?
How many drinks are a ‘normal’ or safe amount to drink? When we decide what is a normal and acceptable amount of alcohol to drink, what exactly are we saying yes to?
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From wine to water: How I finally quit drinking alcohol with the help of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon
Ingrid Langenbruch on giving up alcohol: “Breast cancer didn’t stop me from drinking alcohol but the support of Universal Medicine did . . . this is what happened . . .”
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Drinking alcohol was not ‘normal’ for me at all
When I started going to nightclubs and having my own parties, introducing alcohol into my life all seemed ‘normal’. Everyone else was doing it, so why not me?
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Alcohol – friend or foe ?
Science likes to tell us a glass of wine is good for the heart, but what impact does alcohol have on the rest of our body?
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How alcohol had influenced my life
I never knew the full extent of how alcohol had influenced my life, until I made the choice to stop drinking it.
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Drinking alcohol is not good for you . . . trust me, I’m a doctor
I am a doctor, so I cannot show you my face or use my name on this article, but I wanted to write it to bring home the point that drinking alcohol really is not good for you.
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From alcohol and marijuana to embracing our sensitivity
We may turn to alcohol or marijuana as a way to medicate or to escape from the world, but we do not escape at all nor are we offered any healing. Is there an alternative to help ease our emotional pain?
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Who are we really harming when we drink alcohol?
Our human intelligence registers when what we are choosing is not good for us, so why is it that when we drink alcohol we are willing to so easily override this so-called intelligence?
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Choosing a relationship with alcohol or me
My relationship with alcohol started when I was very young…
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Marijuana – not as harmful as alcohol?
When I realised how alcohol was affecting me, I started to look for another drug. Marijuana was readily available, cheap and did not impact on my behaviour in the same way alcohol did, or so I thought at the time.
