ch acid, which can result in the formation of gastric ulcers when the acid eats through the stomach lining.
The liver is involved in processing fats, sugars, proteins, and vitamins, and in regulating blood clotting, and it plays an important role in the body's defense mechanisms, filtering toxins and microbes from the bloodstream, and responding to stress, trauma, and inflammation (Tenth, 2000, 27). The liver has a remarkable power of regeneration, but severe liver disease is life-threatening, and long-term alcohol abuse is the leading cause of illness and death from liver disease in the United States. Women develop alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis much sooner than men by abusing alcohol, and from ingesting much smaller quantities of alcohol.
Alcohol abuse leads to three forms of liver disease: fatty liver, which can be reversed if alcohol consumption ceases; alcoholic hepatit
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