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| Mrs. Ear Chanthol |
ស្ត្រីនិងគ្រឿងស្រវឹង
Drinking alcohol for entertainment becomes very common for women in western and Asian countries. Not much different, Cambodian women nowadays also involve in drinking in their entertainment activities such as attaining wedding, hanging out with friends and family, or celebrating party, etc.
Besides from this, the majority of Cambodian women who involved much in either moderate or excessive drinking are Beer girls. They sell beer and drink it when customer request to do so. Those women are at high risk facing with health problem. As a matter of fact, alcohol presents another health challenge for women. In some ways, heavy drinking is much more risky for women than it is for men.
Why are lower levels of drinking recommended for women than for men?
It is because women are at greater risk than men for developing alcohol-related problems. Alcohol passes through the digestive tract and is dispersed in the water in the body. The more water available, the more diluted the alcohol. As a rule, men weigh more than women, and, pound for pound, women have less water in their bodies than men. Therefore, a woman’s brain and other organs are exposed to more alcohol and to more of the toxic byproducts that result when the body breaks down and eliminates alcohol.The Dietary Guidelines define moderate drinking as no more than one drink a day for women and no more than two drinks a day for men.
The Dietary Guidelines point out that drinking more than one drink per day for women can increase the risk for motor vehicle crashes, other injuries, high blood pressure, stroke, violence, suicide, and certain types of cancer.
Benefits and Risks of Moderate Drinking
Moderate drinking can have short- and long-term health effects, both positive and negative:
Benefits:
Heart disease: Once thought of as a threat mainly to men, heart disease also is the leading killer of women. Drinking moderately may lower the risk for coronary heart disease, mainly among women over age 55. However, there are other factors that reduce the risk of heart disease, including a healthy diet, exercise, not smoking, and keeping a healthy weight. Moderate drinking provides little, if any, net health benefit for younger people. (Heavy drinking can actually damage the heart.)
Risks:
Drinking and driving: It doesn’t take much alcohol to impair a person’s ability to drive. The chances of being killed in a single-vehicle crash are increased at a blood alcohol level that a 140-lb. woman would reach after having one drink on an empty stomach.
Medication interactions: Alcohol can interact with a wide variety of medicines, both prescription and over-the-counter. Alcohol can reduce the effectiveness of some medications, and it can combine with other medications to cause or increase side effects. Alcohol can interact with medicines used to treat conditions as varied as heart and blood vessel disease, digestive problems, and diabetes. In particular, alcohol can increase the sedative effects of any medication that causes drowsiness, including cough and cold medicines and drugs for anxiety and depression. When taking any medication, read package labels and warnings carefully.
Breast cancer: Research suggests that as little as one drink per day can slightly raise the risk of breast cancer in some women, especially those who are postmenopausal or have a family history of breast cancer. It is not possible, however, to predict how alcohol will affect the risk for breast cancer in any one woman.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Drinking by a pregnant woman can harm her unborn baby, and may result in a set of birth defects called fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
Drinking over the long term is more likely to damage a woman’s health than a man’s, even if the woman has been drinking less alcohol or for a shorter length of time than the man.
The health effects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism are serious. Some specific health problems include:
Alcoholic liver disease: Women are more likely than men to develop alcoholic hepatitis (liver inflammation) and to die from cirrhosis.
Brain disease: Most alcoholics have some loss of mental function, reduced brain size, and changes in the function of brain cells. Research suggests that women are more vulnerable than men to alcohol-induced brain damage.
Cancer: Many studies report that heavy drinking increases the risk of breast cancer. Alcohol also is linked to cancers of the digestive track and of the head and neck (the risk is especially high in smokers who also drink heavily).
Heart disease: Chronic heavy drinking is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease. Among heavy drinkers, women are more susceptible to alcohol-related heart disease, even though women drink less alcohol over a lifetime than men.
Stress and Drinking:
Stress is a common theme in women’s lives. Research confirms that one of the reasons people drink is to help them cope with stress. However, it is not clear just how stress may lead to problem drinking. Heavy drinking by itself causes stress in a job and family. Many factors, including family history, shape how much a woman will use alcohol to cope with stress. A woman’s past and usual drinking habits are important. Different people have different expectations about the effect of alcohol on stress. How a woman handles stress, and the support she has to manage it, also may affect whether she uses alcohol in response to stress.
There is neither accurate figure nor study about alcohol related-issue of how much and how many Cambodian women drinking alcohol, but it is believed that somehow women in Khmer society drink alcohol for many purposes. It is important to know how alcohol can affect a woman’s health and safety. As you can see, alcohol has developed many risks for health such as stress, heart and liver disease, fatal syndrome, family and social issue, traffic accident and so on, that is why we should be well aware of any bad consequences of drinking alcohol.
We only hope that, this article will serve as information to all Cambodian women as well to all the women as a whole to be aware of excessive drinking alcohol beverages.
Care about your health, it is better to moderate your alcohol consumption!
References:
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
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កម្មវិធី ស្ត្រីនៃអង្គការវិទ្យាស្ថានបើកទូលាយ សូមគោរពអញ្ជើញ លោកអ្នក ចូលរួមក្នុងយុទ្ធនាការ ១៦ថ្ងៃ ដែលប្រព្រឹត្តិទៅចាប់ពីថ្ងៃទី២៥ ខែវិច្ឆិកា រហូតដល់ថ្ងៃទី១០ ខែធ្នូ ក្រោមប្រធានបទ «ប្រើ ICTដើម្បីបញ្ចប់អំពើហិង្សាលើស្ត្រី» ឬ «Take Back The Tech »។ ដើម្បីឲ្យយុទ្ធនាការនេះមានកម្លាំងកាន់តែខ្លាំង និងមានលក្ខណៈសាមគ្គីភាពខ្ពស់ ក្នុងការលុបបំបាត់អំពើហិង្សាលើស្ត្រី។
Stop Violent againts Women!
Do you know how many women in the world smoke cigarette?
The fact is that millions of women smoke especially in United State. A figure from www.americanheart.org shows that an estimated 26.2 million men (23.5 percent) and 20.9 million women (18.1 percent) are smokers. 
In contrary, most of Cambodian women do not smoke. This is because of the strict and good culture and tradition of Cambodia. This also represents a very good habit of Neary Khmer (Cambodian women). For women, smoking is very harmful to health in many ways.
ស្ត្រីខ្មែរតិចណាស់ដែលចេះជក់បារី!នេះគឺជាចំនុចល្អដែលគួរឲកត់សំគាល់មួយរបស់នារីខ្មែរយើង។
Unfortunately, if you are female, sucking down the cigarettes might cause worse physical complications than male counterparts. A recent study presented by the American Thoracic Society's annual meeting found that women developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at an earlier age - and after fewer years of smoking than men.
Previous studies on lung cancer also suggest cigarette smoking will cause lung cancer in women more often than in men, even if they smoke less and don't start until they're much older. The researchers are looking at hormones - specifically estrogen - as a possible cause of this increased risk.
Women smokers suffer all the consequences of smoking that men do such as increased of risk various cancers (lung, mouth, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, kidney, pancreas, kidney, and bladder) and respiratory diseases, but as women we need explicit cognizance about the numerous smoking-related health risks which are uniquely ours. This article explores these risks and, hopefully, provides women smokers the further perception and inducement, perhaps, needed to stop smoking.
Hormones and Smoking: Estrogen replacement therapy provides beneficial protection, to post menopausal women against the risk of osteoporosis. But these benefits are many times negated by the increased cardiovascular and other health risks associated with smoking while taking hormones.
Women who smoke face a serious increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke when using estrogens. This risk should be discussed with your physician before beginning hormone replacement therapy, if you are a smoker. Your doctor will assist you if you choose to quit smoking.
Osteoporosis and Smoking: Osteoporosis affects most of us if we live long enough. But there are certain things we can do to reduce our risk of osteoporosis such as participating in regular physical activity and making sure we are getting 1000mg to 1500mg of calcium daily. Smoking causes a significant increase in the risk of bone loss and osteoporosis. Women, who smoke, one pack of cigarettes a day, often experience a loss of bone density equaling five to ten percent more than nonsmokers by the time they reach menopause.
Bone density scanning, to determine the density of your bone structure, is recommended for all women beginning at age 40. Bone density scanning is particularly crucial for women smokers so that changes can be noted and treatment can ensue if osteoporosis is noted.
Heart Disease and Smoking: Approximately 34,000 deaths in women from ischemic heart disease are attributed to smoking each year. Although most of these deaths are in women past menopause, the risk of smoking-related heart disease is significantly higher in young women smokers.
Researchers in Denmark have found a 50 percent greater risk of heart attack in women smokers over men smokers. This difference may be due to the interaction of estrogen with the chemicals found in cigarettes.
Cervical Cancer and Smoking: All women should have annual GYN exams that include Pap smears and for women who smoke the necessity is even greater. Studies show that smoking may lead to the development of cervical cancer; one study found an 80 percent greater risk of developing cervical cancer in smokers.
Cervical cancer patients who quit smoking or who cut down, by at least 75 percent, may have a greater chance of remission and survival than patients who continue smoking.
Some thought is given that chemicals found in cervical tissue which are also found in cigarettes may weaken the ability of cervical cells to fight off infection and may create a potential breeding ground for abnormal cervical cells to multiply.
Breast Cancer and Smoking: The American Cancer Society published the results of a study in 1994 which indicated that breast cancer patients who smoke may increase their risk of dying at least 25 percent--a risk that increases with the number of cigarettes smokes per day. The possible risk of fatal breast cancer rises up to 75 percent for women who smoke two packs or more per day.
The good news is that if you quit now your potential risk of dying as a result of future breast cancer remains the same as for a nonsmoker.
Vulvar Cancer and Smoking: Another type of cancer which may occur more frequently in smokers is vulvar cancer. Smokers experience a forty percent higher risk of developing this, devastating, type of gynecological cancer.
This article does not mean that smoking is not harmful to men; it just the emphasis on women health but both of them are endangered if they are still continuous their smoking.
មិនមែនមានន័យថាបុរសជក់បារីមិនសូវមានគ្រោះថ្នាក់នោះទេគ្រាន់តែទីនេះអត្ថបទចង់បញ្ជាក់និងសង្កត់ធ្ងន់លើគ្រោះថ្នាក់ចំពោះស្ត្រីជាងបុរស។
Tips for Quitting Smoking
Plan ahead to quit smoking on a certain day: When your quit smoking day arrives, make sure you have thrown out all the ashtrays and cigarettes you have in your home, so you won't be tempted.
Have plenty of raw vegetables such as carrot sticks, celery, etc. Available for the times you feel like eating as a result of your desire to have something in your hand/mouth.
Many women fear gaining weight as a result of quitting smoking. Participating in a vigorous exercise program three times per week may help you quit and exercise helps reduce any subsequent weight gain, as well as providing overall health benefits.
Over-the-counter methods that supply nicotine in forms such as gums like Nicorette and patches, such as the Nicoderm C Q patch, help many people decrease the physical symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Never smoke simultaneously with one of these methods--nicotine overdose may occur.
See your physician if you need further assistance achieving your quit smoking goal. He can offer additional methods which are available by prescription.References:
http://thevibe.socialvibe.com
http://womenshealth.about.com
http://www.americanheart.org
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ដកស្រង់ចេញពី women.open.org.kh
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