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Alcohol Use and Nutrition
1990,1989
Overview
It is frequently stated that alcoholism is one of the principal causes of nutritional disturbance in the adult population of North America and the rest of the developed world. This assertion appears to be consistent with the commonly held concept of the alcoholic as a “skidrow” drinker, grossly undernourished, and suffering from a variety of nutritional disorders such as beri-beri, peripheral neuropathy, macrocytic anemia, and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. This picture of the alcoholic is often “explained” by two assumed “facts”: 1. that the alcoholic spends all day drinking and not eating and is therefore grossly undernourished, and 2. that ethanol provides
