Too Much Or Too Little

The last people to fault drunkards from drinking themselves to death are those who do not brush their teeth regularly. And studies discussed in this article tell you why.

LAWRENCE Welk said: “For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.”

Non-drinkers can assure any person they can get on without a bottle of champagne or beer. But even they might not be able to get away from the scourge that plagues heavy drinkers—oral, laryngeal or pharyngeal cancer. The culprit is acetaldehyde (ALDH), a byproduct of alcohol oxidation that causes disarray of genetic materials eventually leading to cancer. A less known study in 2001 found that even people with normal levels of ALDH (deficiency in ALDH builds up acetaldehyde in the mouth after drinking alcohol) can develop oral cancer because of acetaldehyde.

In their report published in “Alcohol,” S. Vakevainen, J. Tillonen and M. Salaspuro noted that acetaldehyde can also be found in the saliva even without drinking any alcoholic beverage. And that results from bacterial metabolism. Certain bacteria in the normal oral flora give out acetaldehyde as metabolic waste product.

For this reason, poor dental state or lack of oral hygiene, which obviously encourages bacteria to grow in the oral cavity and accumulate acetaldehyde, heightens the risk for... [Read more.]

This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 18 May 2011.

Comments

POST-PRESS: Narcissistic Disorder, Ground for Annulment

On 20 May 2011 (Friday), the First Division of the Philippine Court of Appeals dismissed the plea that Julie Balarbar, wife of 15 years of House Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III, filed questioning the November 25, 2010 decision of the Makati Regional Court declaring the marriage null and void on the ground that Balarbar had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Pyschiatric evaluation show a diagnosis of NPD with anti-social features, from her involvement in a shoplifting incident, her closeness to and trips abroad with her male students, and a kissing incident with a co-professor. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder Fourth Edition (DSM IV-TR) enumerated nine indicators of NPD, with only five of them needed for the diagnosis. It is not clear however which indicators have been found in the case of the Tañada annulment case. The Archdiocese of Manila also declared their canonical marriage void ab initio (void from the start) due to "gra

Omicron Updates

(Source: Penzit, 2015) UNITED KINGDOM As of 29 December 2021, the UK Health Security Agency reported the current status of its Omicron cases under emergency care. The lowest emergency admission rate is among those who received one dose of vaccine up to 21 days before specimen date: 0.1%. However, the overall rate for vaccinated individuals was very high at 72.5%. The unvaccinated emergency admission rate was 25.3%. (Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern and Variants under Investigation in England , 31 December 2021, page 8)

Death By Heat Stroke in the Philippines

The hotter and earlier-onset El Niño phenomenon this year 2010 poses a threat to the Filipino lives. How much life it took? See incidence that reached the news. UPDATE On 19 May 2010, candidate army soldier Ericson Pascua (22) came on his first day of training in Isabela when he collapsed after a series of strenous exercise. Although rushed to the hospital immediately, he died shortly afterwards (around 11 a.m.) due to heat stroke. That day Isabela peaked at 38.2 degrees Celsius. Sixteen others were rushed to the hospital for dehydration and heat exhaustion. (Check report ) On 28 April 2010, a veteran Cavite cop, PO3 Florencio Gamana Alivio (48), succumbed to cardiac arrest as a result to heatstroke while having tae bo with his colleagues at the Cavite Police Provincial Office (CPPO) grounds in Camp General Pantaleon. He reached the Imus MEdical Center but pronounced dead at 5:15 PM. (Check report ) In Batangas, former governor Amando Sanchez (57)died on April 27 (Wednesday), a

Breakthroughs Today

Search This Blog