1) Read about alcohol in the book on pp.218-227 Highlight 7 about Alcohol (15th ed=pp.219-228; 14th ed=pp.222-232; 13th ed=pp.220-229) AND pp.479-481 Highlight 15 about Fetal Alcohol syndrome (15th ed=pp.489-491; 14th ed=pp.505-507; 13th ed=pp.501-503).
2) Read through our online notes for this section.
3) Read the article below.
There is a lot of information, so write about 3 points that stood out to you and tell me what you learned. I'm looking for at least one page.
*******If you do not have your book with you when you do this assignment, then you wouldn't be able to read about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Chp.15. Here is a link you can go to for info: http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/brain/fas.html# "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome".
taken from the Instructor's Manual
for Whitney and Rolfes'
Understanding Nutrition
Ninth Edition
by Rhiner, Turner, and Hedley
2002
Chapter 7
METABOLISM: TRANSFORMATIONS
AND INTERACTIONS
Lecture Enrichment 7-1
THE HANGOVER
The hangover—the awful feeling of headache pain, unpleasant sensations in the mouth, and nausea that one has the morning after drinking too much—is a mild form of withdrawal. (The worse form is delirium with severe tremors that warns of a danger of death and demands medical management.) Hangovers are caused by several factors. One is the toxic effects of congeners, other ingredients that accompany alcohol in alcoholic beverages.
The congeners in gin are different from those in vodka, which in turn are different from those in bourbon or rye whiskey. So if one particular kind of liquor produces a hangover, it's possible that another may not. However, this is only one of several factors that produce hangovers, and mixing or switching drinks will not prevent them if too much is drunk.
Dehydration of the brain is a second factor: alcohol not only causes the body to lose water, but actually reduces the brain cells' water content, too. When the brain cells rehydrate the morning after, nerve pain accompanies their swelling back to their normal size.
Another contributor to the hangover is formaldehyde, a chemical familiar as the stuff medical labs use to preserve dead animals. Formaldehyde builds up due to the cells' metabolism of alcohol. Once the alcohol is metabolized, the formaldehyde can then be metabolized.
For the headache pain, unpleasantness in the mouth, and nausea of a hangover, simple-minded remedies like the following clearly will not work: vitamins, tranquilizers, aspirin, drinking more alcohol, breathing pure oxygen, exercising, eating, or drinking something awful. No matter what you attempt to do, time alone is the cure for a hangover. The problem comes simply from drinking too much. Drink less next time.
