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I often hear doctors forbid people from sweets, coffee, and alcohol for various ailments, saying it's all from the evil one. Let's figure out what from this list is from the evil one and what is not and why:

Let's start with sweets, i.e., fast carbohydrates—the easiest source of energy for the body's cells. Unless you have metabolic diseases that cause high glucose levels (periodically above 5.5 mmol/L in serum), you can eat sweets every day.
With low serum glucose levels (approximately less than 4 mmol/L), sweets can even be a cure. For example, symptoms of low glucose include spontaneous loss of consciousness (common in thin women), frequent nightmares, and waking up at night with a feeling of hunger.
I'd also add that you should avoid pure fructose, as it leads to fatty liver disease (for example, lab rats are induced to develop this condition by feeding fructose powder).

Speaking of coffee, the benefit is as follows: ground coffee in the morning is an excellent way to increase intestinal peristalsis .
What is peristalsis? It's the contraction of the muscles around the intestines to speed up the passage of contents. Combining coffee with something fatty in the morning (for example, a French breakfast—a roll with butter ) can not only stimulate peristalsis, but also increase bile secretion. These two processes promote the elimination of waste, particularly aiding detoxification (though there is an exception for people with Gilbert's syndrome).
Coffee bean particles inside the intestines also provide an excellent home for beneficial bacteria, i.e., a prebiotic. Therefore, it's important to drink ground coffee, not instant coffee!
It's also important to remember that coffee is processed with all sorts of chemicals during production! Therefore, preference should be given to "major" brands of coffee.
As for the caffeine in coffee, you already know that it's a stimulant and shouldn't be consumed in large quantities, otherwise you'll get jittery . Ultimately, the only potential harm comes from the caffeine and the chemical processing during production.

Now comes the most interesting part : alcohol. I'll tell you right away that there's no objective benefit. You probably know that ethyl alcohol washes away grease; you've probably all washed your windows with a similar product and seen how it works. Well, every cell in our body has fats (lipids) on its surface, and quite a lot of them. When alcohol is consumed, the cell surfaces dissolve, and the closed cell structure is disrupted, allowing substances that normally shouldn't enter. This happens in all tissues (the vasodilatory effect is also responsible). But the most interesting processes occur in the brain. Alcohol removes the lipid layer from neuronal membranes, just like some girls take off their clothes when they drink. As a result, all sorts of neurotransmitters that control our behavior enter the neurons. At small doses of alcohol, this is dopamine (roughly speaking, a feeling of motivation), serotonin (roughly speaking, a feeling of joy and happiness); at large doses, it's GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid (inhibition). And all of this produces that same high that people drink for, or, God forbid, get drunk. A high is certainly a good thing occasionally, BUT it also damages the cell nucleus and its DNA. In other words, people who drink frequently create mutations in their DNA. The bottom line is that alcohol is harmful, damaging cells and DNA, but this information is unlikely to persuade anyone to give it up completely.