A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good

This is without any doubt the biggest lie about alcohol. It’s good for you!

Who tells us that alcohol is good for us? ‘Experts’ who are alcohol addicts themselves. But what does your body tell you? Wild animals have a very clever device to detect the difference between food and poison. It’s their senses. We also have these incredibly clever devices. We do not need somebody with ‘qualifications’ to tell us what is poisonous; our senses will do that. It has only recently been recognised that smoking is incredibly harmful to the human body but a few years back the experts were telling us that smoking was good for us. It was usually these experts who were smokers themselves and that included many doctors. Perhaps they were attempting to justify their own intake of the drug?

When someone who has never smoked lights up a cigarette for the first time, they cough, splutter and can even be physically sick. What other health warning do you need? It is exactly the same with alcohol. When you had your first alcoholic drink how did your mind and body react? Didn’t it make you feel physically and mentally sick? That is because it is a poison. Alcohol is a poison that destroys the entire central nervous system and increases blood pressure. It also destroys brain

cells. Did you know that? Maybe you did, but have forgotten ! When you drink alcohol regularly you literally pound the brain. It is rather like going into a boxing ring every weekend and deliberately hitting yourself on the head over and over again.

Is it good for you to destroy brain cells? Of course it isn’t; the brain controls everything in your body and it tells your body how to work. If the brain cannot tell it how to work it will become sick. A nurse friend of mine told me that she was once present at a ‘commando operation’ on a man who had a tumour on the side of his face. It had spread so much that they had to remove virtually all the side of his face plus part of his head. This exposed his brain during the operation. The surgeon said that the man was obviously a heavy drinker and my friend asked how he knew. He asked her to look at its size which was a lot smaller than it should be. This, he informed her, was a direct result of the patient’s drinking. So, alcohol actually shrinks the brain.

The experts tell us that alcohol is dangerous on the one hand but that, in small doses, it can be good for people over the age of forty. How did they come up with this? We hear this kind of nonsense all the time yet we never really question it. Why? Because it has been put across by the so-called experts. But does it make any sense at all? They say that alcohol can lower blood pressure and that it can also increase blood pressure. It either does one or the other. How can it do both?

Alcohol kills over 9,000 people a year in the UK, what is healthy about that? They say that the health gains are for people over forty who may be protected against heart disease yet over 80 per cent of people over the age of forty-five drink alcohol and heart disease is still the number one killer in the UK. If alcohol helped protect against heart disease, as is claimed, then we should be the healthiest nation in the world and our instances of heart disease should be almost zero. Kevin Lloyd, who played ‘Tosh’ in the television series ‘The Bill,’ died of heart failure, along with hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, because of the alcohol he consumed. It is not good for you and, to say that it is, is a blatant lie. You don’t need to take my word for it either, just look at the statistics. In the UK, 70,000 die each year from coronary heart disease. Add that statistic to the other effects of alcohol, which has been medically proved to:

Depress your entire central nervous system.

Undermine your courage, confidence and self-respect.

Destroy your brain cells.

Break down the immune system making you less resistant to all kinds of disease.

Interfere with the body’s ability to absorb calcium, resulting in bones that are weaker, softer and more brittle.

Distort eyesight, making it difficult to adjust to different light.

Diminish your ability to distinguish between sounds and perceive their direction.

Slur your speech.

Dull your sense of taste and smell.

Damage the lining of the throat.

Weaken the heart muscle and its ability to pump blood efficiently through the body.

Inhibit the production of white and red blood cells.

Weaken muscles.

Destroy the stomach lining.

Irritate the lining of the intestines, which in turn can cause ulcers, cancer, nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting , sweating, loss of appetite and loss of the ability to process nutrients and vitamins.

Overwork the liver, kidneys and pancreas.

Cause diabetes.

Cause obesity.

In short, how can anything which is known to damage every single organ in the human body be good for you in any way, shape or form? The crazy thing is that all this information is common knowledge to the same experts who are telling us that drinking is good for us.

In fact alcohol is just as toxic to the human body as heroin . Let me repeat that as it is not a very well known fact. Alcohol is just as toxic as heroin. Are they going to tell us that heroin is good for us? Inebriation is called intoxication for a reason.

Alcohol is just as toxic as heroin.

They even talk about sensible drinking limits. Sensible? How would you feel if they said that it wasn’t sensible to get hooked and dependent on heroin but in small amounts it was sensible? Would you believe them? What really gets my goat is that they even brainwash us into thinking that people who drink small quantities are healthier than non-drinkers. This is rubbish, a huge whopper of a lie, but it’s been repeated for so long that even the medical profession thinks it’s true. They argue that alcohol can help to prevent blood clotting and, yes, alcohol does decrease the production of blood clotting agents. However, what they fail to tell us is that the blood is meant to clot otherwise we could suffer uncontrolled bleeding. Do you think that someone who takes heroin in small amounts is healthier than a non-heroin addict? Do you think that a body with small, regular amounts of poison is healthier than one that hasn’t? There is no such thing as sensible drinking anyway. Have you ever seen anyone acting and talking sensibly when intoxicated? It’s a contradiction in terms.

‘But surely, if you drink for social reasons, then a little of what you fancy doesn’t do you any harm, does it?’ That is the same as saying, ‘There is no harm in jumping into quicksand as long as you only go in up to your waist.’ The nature of both is to drag you in one direction … down. The only difference between the two is that one is quick and obvious, the other relatively slow and, to most, very subtle. There is no such thing as sensible drug taking. The only reason many doctors claim that alcohol is good for you and that the consumption of the drug is not an addiction is probably because they are hooked themselves. Virtually all doctors in the UK drink alcohol. I am not criticising them for this; they are in exactly the same trap that I found myself in and, because they cannot see it for themselves, they assume that there is no danger in taking alcohol in small doses. That is fine I guess because they may really have no idea that they are not in control, but to suggest that alcohol is actually good for you is nothing less than scandalous.

Why aren’t we warned about alcohol before we start taking it? Why aren’t there adverts letting everybody know that alcohol is a highly addictive drug with severe mental and physical side effects? Like everything else in this book, I want you to make up your own mind; but, remember, some years ago we were told that smoking was good for us.

Just because the body is clever enough to build up a tolerance to this poison doesn’t alter the fact that alcohol is a powerful poison and a highly addictive drug. When you wake up after drinking alcohol do you feel

good? When you see people vomiting in the street do they look healthier than someone who doesn’t drink? ‘Yes, but surely a couple of glasses of red wine a day, for example, can be good for you?’ No it can’t! The nature of any drug is to take more and more. Therefore when the medical profession makes statements like: ‘A small number of units of alcohol a day is good for you but when you exceed our guidelines it becomes harmful,’ they give the impression that people can control their intake. Surely they realise that we know just whose interests these statistics are serving? It certainly isn’t the alcohol addict. I have already said that this is a fallacy as the drug always controls its victim, whether the victim realises it or not. The drinker regularly has to exercise resolve in order not to increase the intake. It only takes a very bad situation to occur in their lives and their resolve ends and the drinking increases. The more alcohol they take, the further down they go; the quicker they descend, the more they take. They end up in a downward spiral.

Sensible limits for alcohol vary throughout the world. Do people in the US have different insides from us? Can the constitution of a Scandinavian cope better with fewer units of alcohol? That is what we are led to believe when we compare the recommended daily intake of units around the world. There is only one safe limit for any drug that will damage and destroy you physically, mentally and emotionally, and that limit is the same level recognised throughout the world for every other mind-altering drug. No units at all.

In 1985, £100 million was spent treating alcohol related diseases in the UK. That sounds healthy doesn’t it? I am not highlighting these health statistics to scare you into stopping because that rarely, if ever, works. I remember when I was drinking heavily, my doctor told me that my liver would pack up by the time I was thirty, so the first thing I did was to have a drink to calm my nerves. Little did I know at the time that it was absolutely not failing to calm me down. It was, in fact, doing the complete opposite. The reason for quoting these statistics is to underline the self-delusion that is involved in drinking and to help you see the product for what it actually is.

Everything I have just stated simply concerns the alcohol itself. I haven’t even mentioned all the chemicals used to preserve it to make it appear drinkable. The chemicals used are too numerous to mention, but surely they cannot be good for us.

We are also told that if the damage is already done, then it is too late. What is? Is it ever too late to stop putting a poison into your body? Is it ever too late to cure yourself of a disease? It is certainly never too late to gain control of your life. The human body is, without doubt, a highly efficient survival machine programmed to keep you alive. When you stop putting a poison like alcohol into your body, it literally breathes a sigh of relief. No matter how long you have been drinking, when you stop your body will start to repair immediately. The body can do one of two things when a poison enters the system: either it can store it or it can get rid of it. It cannot store alcohol as, if it did, you would die, so it must get rid of

it. The body wants to expel alcohol and will do so successfully as long as you don’t put any back, which brings me to another part of the alcohol brainwashing process. Your body is incapable of craving alcohol no matter how long you’ve been drinking or your intake. Your mind and only your mind craves the benefits it believes alcohol offers. A craving is nothing more than an internal expression of the way you perceive a product; perceive it for what it really is and you will not have the craving.

When you stop putting a poison like alcohol into your body, it literally breathes a sigh of relief.

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