Pregnant women who drink have a higher
incidence of premature births, low birth weight
babies and birth defects.
The offspring of alcoholics show impaired
vitality of the most deep-seated character, such
as deformities, neuroses, which may take the
severe forms of chorea, infantile convulsions,
epilepsy or idiocy.
[American Prohibition Year Book, 1912]
RESPIRATORY
Alcohol depresses the respiratory functions. A
quantity of alcohol sufficient to make a person
oblivious to his discomforts will interfere with
breathing. [You & Your Health v1, p. 421]
People under the influence of alcohol are more
susceptible to pneumonia.”
[You & Your Health, v1, p. 422]
When the amount of alcohol in the body fluids
becomes dangerously high, the body‟s vital
functions are impaired. When death occurs, it is
from paralysis of the breathing mechanism.
[You & Your Health, v3, p. 253]
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[You & Your Health, v1, p.422]
“Use a little wine [oinos – can be either
fermented or unfermented] for thy stomach‟s
sake and thine often infirmities.” [1 Tim 5:23]
Medical studies try to prove that a drink of
alcoholic wine every day is beneficial to the
heart, arteries and stomach. Thus, a new
generation of wine drinkers is spawned. God‟s
created grape is so powerful, that after being
abused through fermentation, saturated with
sugar, food coloring and preservatives - a tiny
blessing remains in the booze. But truly, if it is
help for the stomach, or heart which the
drunkard seeks, he should look to the
unfermented grape juice with ten-fold healing in
its wings. God inspired Paul to write counsel
that a man‟s infirmities could be healed. Is it the
pure grape or the very poor second choice
bearing the multiple negative side effects of
alcohol? Unfermented grape juice is preferable
to non-fermented wine in medicinal properties
and healing.
Alcohol affects the digestive organs. It increases
the flow of both saliva and gastric juice. It may
cause an inflammation of the lining of the
stomach and a congestion of blood in this lining
tissue. [You & Your Health, v1, p. 422]
The carbonation in beer, together with the
irritating effect of alcohol, produces a permanent
inflammation of the stomach mucosa. This
results in increased gastric juice production,
which briefly improves digestion, but results in
stomach inflammation. The result of regular
consumption of wine or other alcoholic
beverages is a permanent inflammation known
as chronic gastritis. Indigestion, slow digestion,
gastritis, and gastro duodenal ulcer are common
among beer drinkers. The Clinic Hospital of
Barcelona has confirmed that men who drink
wine during their meals experience 70% more
heartburn and inflammation of the esophagus.
Diarrhea is an unwelcome consequence of the
use of alcohol.
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When an expectant mother uses alcohol, it is
shared with the unborn child so that the baby‟s
tissues contain about the same proportion as the
mother‟s tissues. Babies born to alcoholic
mothers present a shockingly high incidence of
physical and mental handicaps.