Nearly everyone including most older children know that drinking lots of alcoholic beverages in quick succession is not safe, potentially dangerous and bad for health if this is continued long term.
Few people know that drinking soda sweetened with sugar or high fructose corn syrup is just as dangerous to their health as drinking the same amount of beer. In terms of liver damage we are talking about non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder from all the added sugars consumed as soda pop. A single 12 oz or 355ml can of Coca Cola proves a person with their entire max RDA recommended daily allowance of sugar.
That means that if a person, especially a smaller younger person, drinks 4 or more soda pops, they are damaging their liver just like a person who abuses and drinks alcohol in excess. But because people do not understand that soda just as dangerous to their liver as excess beer consumption, it's more common and socially acceptable to drink soda all day because it's not intoxicating. All the added sugar in the soda consumed in excess will caused obesity and insulin resistance and long term increase the odds of developing Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney damage and much worse.
Chronically elevated high blood sugars are also toxic to the human brain just like a chronically high blood alcohol level. In this way excess sugar and excess blood alcohol are both extremely damaging to health.
Often people who are very drunk with a high blood alcohol level have impaired cognitive function a reduction in mental memory performance until the alcohol is metabolized, which takes many hours. During this time of intoxication driving, operating heavy machinery, even riding a bicycle or walking become more dangerous, especially at high BAC or blood alcohol levels.
Did you know that having a very high blood sugar also so toxic to the human brain that people experience high blood sugars also make poor decisions, getting angry for not reason, lashing out at others, being rude and disrespectful because the high blood sugar makes them feel very sick in the inside, like something is wrong, so they are less patient, less polite and less reasonable. Many times people who abuse soda are so overweight that they have issue with self hatred about their obesity and do not understand that soda pop consumption in excess is what is making them fatter and sicker.
Measuring blood alcohol levels can be easily done with a simple tool called a BAC meter, many models of which are widely commercially available on Amazon & Ebay with BacTrack being common for example. Inside the meter a ethanol fuel cell takes ethanol from the breath of the person blowing into the BAC meter and reacts the ethanol to produce electricity that is them measured by a computer and converted into a value of BAC to display the person current blood alcohol level & some can estimate how long it will take in hours and minutes until the drunk person is sober. Portable BAC meters kept in the glove box of a car, can help the driver to determine if they should get in the back seat and take a nap for a few hours or if its safe to drive. If their BAC is higher. than 0.08 they need to rest for a few hours in the backseat of their car. If it's lower than 0.08 in America, then it's legal for the driver to drive.
Blood sugar testing can be done almost as easily with widely available glucometers that are actually less expensive than BAC meters of similar precision. To accomplish a blood sugar test, a finger lance with replaceable lance, used to prick the person finger to produce a blood droplet. A single use test strip inserted into the front of the glucose meter, then the person applies the droplet of blood on their finger tip to the very end of the test strip sticking out of the glucose meter. Capillary action sucks the blood droplet into the strip where it fills a small rectangular cavity visible to the user as a small line of red blood that can be easily visually inspected. Once blood in the test strip the glucose meter will beep and count down and then display the BG or blood glucose level.
Systems like the Abbot Freestyle or DEXCOM G7 provide continue blood glucose monitoring functions so people with type 1 diabetes who are insulin dependent can make more accurate dosing choice about how much insulin to take after a meal to when to treat a low blood sugar with a juice box or dextrose tablet to bring the blood sugar back up from a dangerous low level. The safe range for blood glucose between 70 and 140 units on a glucose meter. Lower than 70 called a low blood sugar and can be fatal or intoxicating like high blood alcohol level. High blood sugars above 140, especially above 300 are toxic and dangerous long term, like chronically abusing alcohol. This is why added sugar, starches in excess and excess carbohydrate consumption are making people fatter and sicker every year.
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