减少酒精的危害:营养干预措施和功能性酒精替代品
Delia Belelli1, Antonio Riva2, David John Nutt3
1GABALabs Res. Senior Scientific Consultant, United Kingdom.
International review of neurobiology
|March 30, 2024
概括
由于酒精对全球健康的重大影响,减少酒精危害至关重要. 本综述探讨了营养干预措施和功能性酒精替代品,作为减轻与饮酒相关风险的实际策略.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 成 药物 药物 药物 药物
- 营养科学 营养科学
背景情况:
- 定期饮酒对全球健康构成重大风险,导致数百万人的死亡和大量的疾病负担.
- 世界卫生组织 (WHO) 强调了酒精的影响,2016年估计有300万人死亡,占全球疾病和伤害负担的5.1%.
- 完全消除酒精消费是不切实际的,而历史上的禁酒政策在减少危害方面被证明是无效的.
研究的目的:
- 审查和讨论旨在减少与酒精有关的危害的战略的最新进展.
- 探索营养干预的潜力,作为一种减轻酒精不良影响的方法.
- 检查功能性酒精替代品的开发和有效性.
主要方法:
- 关于减少酒精危害的最新科学出版物的文献综述.
- 分析着重于营养干预措施及其对与酒精有关的健康结果的影响的研究.
- 对开发和消费者接受功能性酒精替代品的研究进行评估.
主要成果:
- 营养干预措施在管理或减少与饮酒相关的某些健康风险方面表现有前途.
- 功能性酒精替代品正在成为寻求减少或取代传统酒精摄入量的个人可行的选择.
- 这两种方法都为减少危害提供了实际的,非禁令性的策略.
结论:
- 营养干预和功能性酒精替代品代表了有价值的,以证据为基础的战略,以减少与酒精有关的全球伤害负担.
- 这些方法为无效的禁令政策提供了切实可行的替代方案,与公共卫生目标保持一致.
- 在这些领域进行进一步的研究和开发可以大大有助于减轻酒精消费对健康的广泛负面影响.
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