Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You

This book provides a sensible, science-driven, and thought-provoking look at the pros and cons of alcohol, as well as tips on how to enjoy your favorite tipple in a safer way. It is written by a journalist and the director of the Japan Saké Association, with expert medical help from a liver specialist. The book explores a range of issues, such as the benefits of beer for preventing dementia, the dangers of in-flight drinking, and the secrets for avoiding weight gain.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

People in Japan take their drink seriously. However, alcohol is seriously bad for you. This book will tell you how to hold your drink - without dying from the consequences.

Henry Gee, Senior Editor, Nature, and author of The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, has written a sensible, science-driven, and thought-provoking look at both the pluses and minuses of alcohol as well as tips on how to hopefully enjoy your favorite tipple in a safer way.

Brian Ascraft, author of The Japanese Saké Bible and Japanese Whisky, has written a refreshingly honest look at booze and how to get the best out of it. Helen McGinn, author of The Knackered Mother's Wine Club, has written a book that reveals alcohol not as a poison, but as the best of all medicines.

Kaori Haishi is a journalist and the director of the Japan Saké Association; Dr Shinichi Asabe is a liver specialist who likes a drink. Kaori Haishi interviewed a line-up of twenty-five booze-loving physicians, including Japan's leading expert on throwing up, a sleep specialist on how nightcaps can cause depression, and a professor on how drinking too much beer can prevent the secretion of testosterone. Now, with Dr Asabe's expert medical help, she has written this book.

Universally relevant information about the effects of wines, beers, and spirits on the human body is delivered with clarity and precision, backed up by plentiful footnotes citing the latest academic research. The unfailingly amusing Haishi has particular fun with the Japanese obsession with sake, which is often drunk in small cups called ochoko. She also explores the history of alcohol in Japan, from its first appearance in the country in the 3rd century AD to the present day.

The book also includes a section on how to drink healthily, with tips on how to choose the right drink for the right occasion, how to drink in moderation, and how to avoid the dangers of alcohol abuse. The book is written in a lively and engaging style, making it an enjoyable read for anyone interested in alcohol and its effects on the human body.

In conclusion, this book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys drinking alcohol. It provides a sensible, science-driven, and thought-provoking look at both the pluses and minuses of alcohol as well as tips on how to hopefully enjoy your favorite tipple in a safer way. The book is written in a lively and engaging style, making it an enjoyable read for anyone interested in alcohol and its effects on the human body.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 142 x 224 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472144560