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I often hear doctors forbid people from eating sweets, drinking coffee, and drinking alcohol for various ailments, saying it's all from the devil Let's figure out what on this list is from the devil and what isn't, 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. If you combine coffee with something fatty in the morning (for example, a French breakfast – a roll with butter ), you can not only increase peristalsis, but also increase bile secretion. These two processes promote the elimination of waste, in particular, they aid detoxification (although there is an exception for people with Gilbert's syndrome).
Also, coffee bean particles inside the intestines 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 So, the only potential harm comes from the caffeine and the chemical processing during production.

Now comes the fun part Alcohol. I'll tell you right away 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 drinking alcohol, 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 while drinking alcohol As a result, all sorts of neurotransmitters that control our behavior enter the neurons. At low doses, alcohol produces dopamine (roughly speaking, a feeling of motivation), serotonin (roughly speaking, a feeling of joy and happiness), and at high doses, it produces 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 nice occasionally, BUT it 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