11.   Not being one for alcoholic beverages, I prefer to wind down with a cup of tea every night.

12.   Ethanol in alcoholic beverages also provides energy.

13.   Other distilled alcoholic beverages include brandies, rums and vodkas.

14.   Alcoholic beverages with low ethanol content and strong stimulants of gastric acid secretion and gastrin release, the effect of beer being equal to the maximal acid output.

15.   Interestingly, the findings of the oral ethanol ingestion experiments are exaggerated when alcoholic beverages are studied.

16.   In a recent study Chacin et al recorded the effect of different concentrations of ethanol and some alcoholic beverages on the isolated toad gastric mucosa.

17.   Alcoholic beverages with low ethanol content stimulate gastric acid secretion by additional mechanisms.

18.   As the different alcoholic beverages have not been shown to cause different diseases it is possible that alcohol itself is the most harmful component of the beverages.

19.   This may throw more light on the mechanism of action of the alcoholic beverages on the gastric mucosa and possibly on other organs.