http://betterhealth.disqus.com/enSat, 02 May 2009 12:27:32 -0000http://www.getbetterhealth.com/alcohol-at-the-beach/2009.04.29#comment-8932081<p>According to national data, drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in youth and young adults. Forty to fifty percent of young males who drown had been drinking at the time of death. These facts are from the Surgeon General's Report in 2002</p>Donald Tex BryantSat, 02 May 2009 12:27:32 -0000http://www.getbetterhealth.com/alcohol-at-the-beach/2009.04.29#comment-8852443<p>I agree with your words here 100%.<br>My personal goal, along with MADD, is to somehow convince our Canadian Government Officials of the desperate need to legislate mandatory health warning labels on all liquor containers !<br>While it won't completely stop all our youth from drinking, it hopefully will help at least 50% of them. <br>There are currently 5 common severe health afflictions, hitting moderate drinkers, or at least what many of us thought was moderate drinking, that being 1-2 stiff drinks per day. This February Medical Info released stated that moderate drinking of this type, should not be more than 1-2 per week, maximum !<br>The health problems are as follows, and in no particular order:<br>-Grand Mal Seizures<br>-Rapidly Progressive Deafness<br>-Rapidly Progressive Blindness<br>-Rapidly Corroded Livers<br>-Heart Attacks<br>None of which have any forewarning signs, nor any cures at this date.</p><p>All your diligence in this regard is so appreciated !<br>If we don't do something soon, what will happen, when all us old sods have been dropped of at Senior Nursing Homes, who will then take over/assume all our professions, if our youth have already destroyed their own health &amp; futures ?</p><p>Keep up the good work ! <br>And may God richly bless you for it !!</p><p>Sheila Joyce Gibbs<br>sjgibbs@shaw.ca<br></p>Sheila Joyce GibbsThu, 30 Apr 2009 01:31:46 -0000