Anthropologists are now concluding that the need for an assured supply of barley for making beer was one of the driving forces which created modern agriculture about 10,000 years ago. If true, we can conclude the need for alcohol created modern civilization. 30,000 die from cirrhosis of the liver. It is a disease that absolutely controls the victim. Every alcoholic suffers from malnutrition, even those who appear to be healthy.
Most alcoholics have food allergies, sugar, grains, and alcohol.
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment, Joseph D. Beasley, MD, reviewed by Abram Hoffer, 1989. Alcohol gives energy faster than any food. Alcoholism has physiological factors, genetically determined. It is not a psychological or emotional problem. It is hereditary.