NOVEMBER 7, 1952

National Temperance Study Course

ranmnmua - SENIOR m LESSONS

Lesson Four:-November Ind

ALCOHOL AND HEALTH

what is the enact on .one's health of the continued drinking or alcohol? With the,time of so many trained personnel, as well as such large sums of, money, being devoted to the improvement of the nation's health, it is not surpris- ing that attention has been given to this problem of alcohol. The problem has become more acute in recent years as the feeling has grown that our survival. or the survival of our way of life, may depend upon the development of a vigorous and healthy nation.

insurance companies which take a financial risk each time they in- sure a person, have been particu- larly concerned about the compar- ative risk involved in insuring to- Inl abstainers on the one hand, and users of alcohol on the other. They fix their rates on the basis of the risk involved. Should the two groups pay equal rates, or should the one pay more than the other?

Recently there was completed an extensive study by I. group of insurance companies of the drink: ing habits and death rate of I large number of persons whom they had insured. Forty-three companies combined in the study, which was continued over a per- md of twenty-three years and in- tulved two million policy-holders. It was found that the death rate before '10 years of age was for moderate drinkers 186 for every 100 deaths among non-drinkers. For heavy drinkers the rate was considerably higher. This is in line with the findings of medical and other authorities. Before the close of the last century, William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain. pointed out that alcohors victims exceeded those of war, pestilence and famine put to- gether. Today we classify it with such killers as cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease. Dr. Haven Emerson, Professor of Public Health Administration at C lumbia University, says, "We have learned that alcohol as commonly used to- day causes more diseases, disabil- ity and death than any other cause of ii health which is in the power of t o individual to prevent and avoid." And the late Dr. Mayo o.dded"his testimony. "When tenpersons start to drink. four die early, three become addicts, and three live in spite of it."

The close vrelationship between alcohol consumption and the im- pairment of health is in part due to the nutritional and dietary de- fects broughtabout by the contin- ued drinking of liquor. The hu- man body requires an adequate and balanced supply of food to remain in good health. We have learned much in recent years about the basic food requirements. We need a few thousand calories per day. the number depending upon the amount of energy we use up in doing the particular kind oi work in which we are en- gaged; and we need besides cer- tain vitamins and minerals. Now alcohol is rich in calories, but contains no vitamins nor -miner- sis. A drinker may get one-half or,moro oi his needed calories through alcohol, and with the ad-

dition of I few carbohydrates feel '

that he is well fed. Actually he is starving himself, for he is be- coming deficient in the necessary vitamins and minerals. The diet- ary deilcien y tends to be increas- ed as he substitutes alcohol for food, for as one eats iesmfood than normal over a period of time one's appetite declines. It is apparently this dedciency in the diet of the heavy drinker over a period of time that causes the degeneration of the nerve fibres which so often takes place. Besides. when one's physical condition comes to be in M...:...m...

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a. run-down state, one's resistande to various diseases is considerably lessened.

A study made some years ago in Germany showed that diseases oi the nervous system was four times more prevalent among heavy drink- ers that among non-drinkers and moderate drinkers, and that other types of disease. particularly those of the digestive and circulatory systems, were more common 'as well.

These findings, together with the fact that heavy drinkers are much more subject to accidents involving both themselves and others, are a matter oi concern to employers of labour. If the drinking oi alcohol by the persons employed in a fac- tory results in a. larger number of accidents, or causes workmen to be away from work for two or three days at a time on a drink- ing bout, then it is the concern of industry and of society at large. If workers who have been absent on a. drinking spree come back to work much below normal in effic- iency for a few days,'sui!fering from what is called a. hangover. then it is the concern of all who are engaged in the production of the commodities we need.

What is the situation today re- garding the efllects oi alcohol on health, accident rate, and absent- eeism in industry?

There is held from time to time an Industrial Conference on Alco- holism. At the first of these con- fercnces held a. few years ago in Chicago, it was pointed out that industry lost millions of dollars a year due to alcoholism. This is not surprising when we think oi the way in which alcohol causes a deterioration, of human perform- once.

The president of the" American Association of Industrial Physic- ians, Dr. Edward Carlton, points out that one billion man-hours per year are lost in industry due to alcohol. He adds, "It is indus- try's greatest health problem. Two million oi thirty-five million em- ployees are heavy drinkers. They lost 25 days I. year asathe result oi liquor, plus two or three days from other causes, and their effic- iency is lowered while they are working. The accident rate among drinking men is double that of other employees."

The Biblical statements "Know yo not that ye are the temple of God". and "Ye are co-workers to- gether with God", need to be re-emphasir.ed- in our day. It is hard to think of a. liquor-soaked personality being a nt temple for the Divine Spirit. similarly, if we are co-workers with God, it would seem that we are not only Christian when we pray or attend church, but that our work and our preparation for work ,should be Christian also. That. in turn, re- quires that our faculties and cap- acities should be functioning at their best. one of the greatest tragedies of-our time is the under- mining in so. many cases of the most worthwhile part of the sac- red personality through the use of beverage alcohol.

For Discussion

What does it mean that our bodies are the temple of God, and what implications and responsibil- ity dces it involve?

Questions

1. How is it that so many per- sons addicted to alcohol suffer from diseases that are caused by faulty diet?

2. In what ways in industry af- fected by alcohol consumption?

Juruon LESSON ' Lesson Four--November 2nd

non AND JANE Leann now coon soon is nnsrnoveo

By RUTH LUCAS 8M'I'I'I-I

"It's not really fair," said Jane! "You know. Mother, our class at school are having a sale oi Home Cooking and Candy to raise money for our Christmas gifts to the children of Europe, and the boys are to make the candy and the girls do the home cooking."

"What's mot fair about that?" asked Mother. .

"Well, 1 just love making candy, but what can I bake for the table except I cake," replied Jane, "and everyone is going to make a cake?

"How would you like to have I lesson in bread making?" asked

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"When is the sale to be?" asked Mother.

”Next Saturday in tho vacant store up town. I'm to be there from two until two-thirty with Shirley and Ethel, and there are to be three boys also. We could have the buns ready by that time, couldn't we, Mother?" . "Oh yes; if we set them first thing in the morning they will be baked by noon," said Mother. "Mother. you're wonderful. All my worries are over now. I think I'll go over to Shirley's. 0.K.?" "Yes; that will be all right," answered Mother.

Jane passed Jack coming in as she left. "l-ii. Mum," called Jack. "Am I ever lucky! I know how to make two kinds of candles, and the boys were given the candy table at the sale on Saturday. The worst part about my job is that we have to fix up some candy cups and boxes. Have we any paper cups from our picnic last sum- mer?",he asked.

”Wclmight have some on the top shelf of V.he cupboard. You get the kitchen stool and climb up and investigate," suggested Moth- er. Jack did. and he found Just what he needed; so he was happy. "All right." said'Mother. "Get the pad down and list: two pounds of brown sugar and a tin of corn syrup. We have enough of everything else in the house, I think. You had better make your candy on Friday night because Jane will bake on Saturday morn- ing." said Mother. "Ask Jim and Harry over. too."

The candy-making party was quite a success. The boxes looked lovely to Jane when she came home from her knitting club, and there were a few samples of candy left for the family.

Jane was all ready to start. her baking in the morning. After school she had gone shopping for fresh yeast. Mother had flour and milk in the house. She had read the recipe several times and talk- ed it over with her mother. She was ready to start the bread- making at nine o'clock.

Thing; on Saturday morning were al ays a bit late,so she knew she would be on her own. At 8.50 she got up. dressed and washed. and came into the kitchen. She measured the milk and put it on to scald. She added the sugar and salt and butter and then opened the two packages of yeast and set them to soak in luke-warm water to which she added a little sugar Then she began to eat her break- fast. soon, Mother joined her, and Jack was 'not long after.

Jack was proud of his work the night before, and pleased that he was ready for the sale. As he sat down to the table he said, "There is something in this kitchen this morning that makes me think of the brewery." ' "Why. Jack Richardson: what are you talking aboutli" said Jane.

"Well. I smell something this

morning that I smell when I go past. the brewery on Third Aven- ue." ”I know what that is," said Mother. "It's Jane's yeast here. It's starting to work. and. it is sit- ting on the table quite close to Jack's place."

"But. why does yeast make him think of the brewery?" asked Jane.

"Because in the brewery they place sugary fluids in a luke-warm temperature. so that yeast plants start to grow in them,causlng fer- mentation. Bubbles oi carbon di- oxide are formed. The fermenta- tion pncess induced by the yeast plants changes the sugar into al- cohol. Jane added sugar to the warm water and the yeast is bub- bling. It is these bubbles of car- bon dioxide that make the dough rise."

"In the brewery they use sugar and yeast and grain. The yeast works on the grain starches and turns them into sugar and then into alcohol." , "It is true that alcohol is needed for medical purposes for drugs. cometlcs, paints and varnishes and for synthetic rubber, but we could do without all this beverage alco- hoi..Think oi the waste of good food,-the bread that could be made from grain that is now be- ing used to make alcohol."

The making of beer and liquor raises many' problems. We shall have to learn a better way of dis- tributing this grain to places where it is needed for bread. We must do that if we are to be our brother's keepers, and help to feed the hungry world. The committee which is studying the problem of world food. tells us that half the people in the world go to bed hun- gry. This is one of the big prob- lems for you boys and girls to think about, and losirn to do some- thing about. Before we eat our

7 breakfast let us thank God for His

bounty to us. 'Oh Lord, open our eyes and our hearts to the needs of others, and help us to do some- thing about it. Amen'," they said together. g

'- Breakfast was soon over and Jane set her bread and later'made the dough into buns. They came out a. golden brown in plenty of time for the sale, and they did not wait long on the bake table for some one to buy them.

When Jane got home she said to her mother. "Thanks for help- ing to make buns. I learned a lot today."

Questions

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2. What shortage is one of the

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Mr. John T. Valley, teacher at Penkels Road, was a business vis- itor to Charlottetown October 25.

Miss Ruth Donnelly, st. Pat- rick's Road. spent the weekend of October 26th with her aunt, Mrs. Walter Currie, Charlottetown.

Mr. Harold Dunn was s busi- ness visitor to Charlottetown Oc- tober zith.

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