24/12/2020
YOU DON'T KNOW THE DAMAGE YOU ARE DOING TO YOURSELF.
BY: RAPHAEL JUDE MBOTEPI
As the aphorism goes, a stitch in time saves nine. I may like to start with something that has eaten up our community and even the world at large. People have their reasons why they do what they do. The question is, are you convinced of what youre doing or what you are about doing? We tend to infect our body systems with some toxic substances that in future will eventually lead us into a serious illness or pave an economic meltdown into our families and communities with some disorders likes; mental sickness, liver cirrhosis, and even an inability to function well when you get married in future. I met a friend soliloquizing on his way to his house; I taught he was speaking to someone, after a long and a close observation I discovered something was wrong upstairs. Ordinarily, a normal person shouldn't have exhibited such character. Although some psychological trauma can lead one to such situations, little did I know that the man was a drunkard and he stinks like a man who perfumed himself with a formalin (CF 1 corinthians 6:19. building an irregularities towards Gods temple). Many today sleepily fall into such a metaphor even after seeing the blind frogs falling into a pit; it didnt serve as a lesson to them. One day you might hit the drum of your success and your dancing shoes might be missing or by then things might have grown worse, whose fault could that be? Is drinking beer good or bad? I can see different answers coming up from different angles, but you know what? I am not afraid of your questions…my answer to all your questions is, what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong no matter what people may say. I leave that to your conscious
Women are weaker vessels as the scripture says (1 peter3:7). I am not underrating the power of women, but pregnant women should take this to heart. Women who drink alcohol and other un-prescribed drugs during pregnancy can give birth to babies with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, sometimes known as FASDs. FASD is the umbrella term for a range of disorders. These disorders can be mild or severe and can cause physical and mental birth defect. Alcohol crosses the placenta and rapidly reaches the fetus. Little wonder then, when Samson's mother was pregnant, she was told by an angel not to drink alcohol or anything toxic. Alcohol sometimes causes higher blood alcohol concentrations in your developing baby than in your body because a fetus metabolizes alcohol slower than an adult does. Exposure to alcohol before birth can harm the development of tissues, organs and cause permanent brain damage in your baby.
Drinking ease tension, so they say, but I dont concur with such phrase. Some say it makes you feel good and forget about your sorrow. If then, that which engineers your body got off its work those sorrowful moments will emerge back to their toes. Many persons drink in large quantity, things like beer, strong wine, and liquor, in a relatively short time. As the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream increases, the liver cant break down the alcohol and remove the toxins from the blood quickly enough. The excess alcohol acts as a depressant and causes parts of the brain that control vital body functions including breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, obesity and temperature to shut down.
You may tend to argue it out; Men are more likely than women to drink heavily, resulting in a greater risk for an alcohol overdose. Your height and weight determine how quickly your body absorbs alcohol. Someone with a smaller body (zaqen if you know you know) may experience the effects of alcohol more rapidly than someone with a larger body. In fact, the smaller bodied person may experience an alcohol overdose after drinking the same amount that a larger-bodied person can consume safely. One evening, I met some guys chanting this song after the dawn of the day and the song goes like this. In heaven there is no beer, thats why we drink it here, and when we are done from here, all our friends will be drinking all our beers…all these allusions must path not our ways, as believers. St. Paul rightly captures it well, he succinctly put it this way, be an exemplary leaders wherever you find yourself. On the contrary, if you have any other health conditions, such as inherited diabetes, Hepatitis, Lepromatus, and Gastric ulcer you may be at greater risk because you are endangering yourself, and your future may not end well. If you continuously combine alcohol and drugs, the effects in future could lead your mortal being deprived from proper functioning.
Confusion or disorientation, vomiting, Hypothermia (Inability to stay conscious), Cold or clammy skin, Lack of physical coordination, including an inability to walk, Irregular pulse, depressed breathing, Seizure, Choking, Loss of bowel or bladder control, Blue tinged skin, especially around the lips or under the fingernails. My reader, I have a good message for you.
Perhaps the only good thing about alcohol is that it is 100% preventable. Taking the following steps will help you avoid dangerous situation from which you may develop unwanted habit around your community. Only drink moderately, if at all you want to. Have a bottle drink at most per day, but if possible abstain which is the best way. If need be don't drink on an empty stomach, make sure you drink sufficient water. Store alcohol products carefully and out of the reach of children and finally, educate your family and friends (especially teens) about the dangers of alcohol in other to go about it, but be wise as a serpent and be simple as a dove. MBORAPHCARES🙏🏻
