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Singapore catching up with China on bans LOL

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Updated: 10/31/2013 23:11 | By Channel NewsAsia

Alcohol ban in NUS, NTU


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SINGAPORE: Preliminary findings from the Los Angeles County Coroner suggest that the death of a student from Singapore in the US was the result of alcohol poisoning.

The student from University of Southern California was found dead over the weekend, days after a party.

Channel NewsAsia checked if there are precautions in place at local institutions.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) bans alcohol on its campus.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU) have food and beverage outlets on campus that serve alcohol, but there is an alcohol ban in NTU halls.

Dr Joshua Kua, a specialist in psychiatry & consultancy at Raffles Counselling Centre, said: “Young people will obviously think of drinking alcohol as being cool and as a sign of maturity and as an adult.

“But a lot of people do not realise the danger of binge drinking, they thought that if they do not drink alcohol every day, then they are not alcoholics.

“And it doesn't (do) harm having more (to) drink over the week and at a party, for example. But we know from research that binge drinking is harmful both physically and physiologically." - CNA/nd

 

HTOLAS

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Students are now liberated from the dependency on alcohol to be creative, relevant and compliant to the PAPzis.
 

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Alcohol in the form of Chivas/Heineken caused me to have sexual romps in the most unlikely places ......
 

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Alcohol should be banned in Singapore, or at least be educated about the potential of cancer causing in the many Southern chinese stocks you see in Singapore. The Asian red flush syndrome is prevalent especially among the chinese locals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

Causes[edit]

It is commonly thought that the flush reaction is caused by an inability to metabolize alcohol. To the contrary, around 80% of Asian people (less common in Thailand and India) have a variant of the gene coding for the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase called ADH1B, and almost all Chinese and Korean people have a variant of the gene called ADH1C, [8] both resulting in an alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme that converts alcohol to toxic acetaldehyde at a much higher efficiency than other gene variants (40 to 100-fold in case of ADH1B).[2] In about 50% of Asians, the increased acetaldehyde accumulation is worsened by another gene variant, the mitochondrial ALDH2 allele, which results in a less functional acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme, responsible for the breakdown of acetaldehyde.[8] The result is that affected people may be better at metabolizing alcohol, often not feeling the alcohol "buzz" to the same extent as others, but show far more acetaldehyde-based side effects while drinking.
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& | & & | & &\mathsf{ADH} & & | & & | &\mathsf{ALDH} & & | & & & \\
\text{H}\,-\!&\text{C}&\!-\!&\text{C}&\!-\,\text{O}\,-\,\text{H}&\xrightarrow{\qquad}&\text{H}\,-\!&\text{C}&\!-\!&\text{C}&\xrightarrow{\qquad\ }&\text{H}\,-\!&\text{C}&\!-\!&\text{C}&\!-\,\text{O}\,-\,\text{H}\\
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Metabolism of alcohol (ethanol) to acetaldehyde (ethanal) and then acetic acid (ethanoic acid)
Genetics[edit]
Alcohol flush reaction is best known as a condition that is experienced by people of Asian descent. According to the analysis by HapMap project, the rs671 allele of the ALDH2 gene responsible for the flush reaction is rare among Europeans and Africans, and it is very rare among Mexican-Americans. 30% to 50% of people of Chinese and Japanese ancestry have at least one ALDH2 allele.[9] The rs671 form of ALDH2, which accounts for most incidents of alcohol flush reaction worldwide, is native to East Asia and most common in southeastern China. It most likely originated among Han Chinese in central China,[10] and it appears to have been positively selected in the past. Another analysis correlates the rise and spread of rice cultivation in Southern China with the spread of the allele.[2] The reasons for this positive selection aren't known, but it's been hypothesized that elevated concentrations of acetaldehyde may have conferred protection against certain parasitic infections, such as Entamoeba histolytica.[11]
 

Ash007

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It was there in an older version of the article. But if you are too lazy too google, typcial of most Singaporean, this is the first link from it. I suppose most Chinese asian of southern heritage I meet refuse to believe this is true. Some even said its "good for health" crap. The Singapore government is looking after its citizens if they ban alcohol or as I've said, educate them about it. Ask this question to the ministry of health and see their response.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/asian-flush-red-flag-risk-cancer-1C6437432

People with this ALHD2 deficiency have a really high risk of getting esophageal cancer when they drink alcohol,” says Brooks, who wrote about the link between the Asian flush and esophageal cancer in a 2009 paper in PLoS Medicine, a journal published by the Public Library of Science. “Anyone who drinks is at risk, but the more you drink, the more your risk goes up. And when you’re ADLH2-deficient, your risk goes up much more dramatically.”

Explain the cancer causing part? I don't see it in the wiki article you attached.
 
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