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5 ways in which alcohol affects your body

Maybe it's time we cut the amount of alcohol you consume in cocktails, and other spirits.

Look at your favorite series with a glass (or two) of wine somehow enhances the plot. And, to be honest, like a holiday spent away from home, a few cocktails without alcohol? Although there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy a glass of wine or a cocktail, there are ways in which alcohol can have a negative impact on your mind and body.

Here is a list of side effects that will make you reduce the amount of alcohol you consume:

1 of your workouts at the gym suffer. Alcohol is detrimental to any physical activity and can affect the body and brain for a few days. If you have alcohol in system, so you can slow recovery post-workout and can lead to dehydration. And excessive alcohol consumption can damage muscles in certain areas, especially buttocks and thighs.

2 Alcohol can damage your DNA. A study published this year in the journal "Alcohol" found that even moderate drinking during the weekend may lead to oxidative stress and may damage your DNA. Researchers analyzed two groups of students, some of whom had consumed three pints of beer a week, while others did not drink any alcohol. The group that consumed alcohol had damage at the cellular level two times higher than among those who did not drink.

3 Alcohol increases your appetite and weight. Studies show that alcohol can starve by suppressing leptin, a hormone that regulates hunger. Therefore, diet kill you if you get used to eat late at night and combined effects of alcohol. And despite the fact that that glass of wine or cocktail seems to be light, they are often full of sugar and calories "empty".

4 Alcohol can damage your organs. Alcohol can wreak havoc on the body of women, because females have less water in their bodies than men and fewer enzymes that can break down alcohol, according to experts. This means that after an alcoholic drink, women bodies are exposed to higher levels of alcohol for longer periods of time. And if you drink more than one drink per day, alcohol can trigger depression, anxiety and a poor long-term memory.

5 Alcohol affects your power to your brain works. According to a 2012 study from Rutgers University, alcohol can reduce the creation of cells in the adult brain by 40%. Alcohol also affects the ability to regenerate body, which means it kills cells and prevents useful body repair their damaged ones.

Vegetables only real power in detoxification

There are myths and erroneous information everywhere, especially when it comes to foods that cleanse your body. But there is a vegetable that is indeed the power of detoxifying your body.

Ever since this trend in terms of detox diets "hit" the female population, nutritionists rejected, in general, the idea that certain foods can help the body get rid of harmful chemicals (for that's what our liver).

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But a new study shows that even a green vegetable could have a strong incentive to detox: broccoli sprouts. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that these little green shoots have helped remove air pollutants at an accelerated pace.

Researchers wrote in the journal Cancer Prevention Research focused on nearly 300 study subjects who lived in a city in China, the area that a high rate of air pollution. A group of people received a daily drink made ​​from dry powder and cream of broccoli sprouts, while the second group consumed a placebo drink daily effect without germs. After 12 weeks, the researchers tested the urine and blood of study participants.

What scientists found: the pollutant excretion among drinkers of broccoli sprouts was significantly higher than the placebo group. Detoxification rate of a pollutant (causing cancer), benzene, increased by 61 percent, while the rate for another carcinogen, acrolein increased by 23 percent.

What is so special about broccoli sprouts? In the study, researchers wrote that a compound found in these vegetables and other cruciferous vegetables called glucorafanin proved previously that has anti-carcinogenic in animal studies. Suggesting that this compound might have to do with the results of the study.

Although the need to do more research on this topic before the seeds of broccoli and other similar vegetables prove to be useful in the removal of the pollution of the body does not hurt to choose such products from regions with vegetables and include them in salads or your next green smoothie that you'll prepare it.