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san Francisco is one of the highest, if not the highest in the country. I have personal evidence. What kinds of things can the heavy drinker do to stave off the advance of cirrhosis other than quitting drink altogether? Well, in actual fact, I don't think he can

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do anything. You know, for many years it has been thought that if you ate well, you could drink as much as you wanted. And there's ah, there's no question that a poor diet yeah, enhances the effects of alcohol. But the converse is not true. A good

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diet does not prevent the effects of alcohol. There have been some really fascinating studies done within the last few years on the direct effects of alcohol on the liver. And it has been shown beyond any question that the kind of drinking that the non alcoholic man

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does on a party weekend is enough to produce severe damage to the parasites to the liver. Were it not for the fact that the liver has a remarkable capacity to recover on monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, thursday and friday. I think many people would be in very serious

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trouble. A man by the name of labor, in new york, Charles, labor or lib has done a series of elegant studies on volunteers has gotten them to take alcohol on an ordinary social weekend and then by biopsy in the liver has studied the structure and biochemical

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composition, enzyme composition of the paddock cells. Has shown beyond any question that what we consider acceptable and harmless amounts of alcohol are indeed damaging to the liver. What amounts are you talking about now? 3-5 cocktails on Friday night and Saturday night?