The author reflects on their holiday alcohol consumption and considers the benefits of participating in Dry January, a movement encouraging people to abstain from alcohol for the month of January.
By the time 2024 closed out, it felt like my body was asking for a break from alcohol.Like most people you see, I enjoyed my drinks during the holidays. I would have a bottle or a glass every day, and drink more than that when there's a party.I didn't necessarily get drunk through December, but I was constantly enjoying a tipple. On December 31, after having several glasses of white wine at lunch, my head began to throb the way it does during hangovers.
And my stomach began to feel acidic, like an acid reflux was on its way.It's not uncommon. According to a 2019 Oxford Academic Review, 'the increase in alcohol consumption frequency showed a stronger association with GERD.'On New Year's Eve, I couldn't eat dinner and I could hardly enjoy our media noche. I barely even made it to midnight.Perhaps it's time to join the Dry January movement, a public health initiative by Alcohol Change UK that started in 2012. Three years later, by 2015, more than 2 million people in the UK alone have participated in Dry January.It's not a detox program, just a challenge to help people like me 'who are steadily drinking a bit too much, too often, without realizing the effect it may have having' on my health.I'd like to think I'm a fairly health person. I'm a woman in my mid-40s, weighing about 128lbs. I work out three times a week, eat brown rice instead of white, and I have more fish (and chicken) than red meat. But boy do I love my drink. I drink when there's something to celebrate, when I need to wash the stressful day away, and in 2024, when life became a little too much, I drank to enjoy a beautiful day. But don't get me wrong. I'm not alcoholic. I just think allowing myself what I enjoy is a healthier way of living. And it's been working for me until this holiday season, until December 31 actually, when alcohol felt like it got in the way of enjoying life.The benefits of a Dry January are plenty — from better skin to healthier liver, from improved sleep to weight los
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