Watch for scurvy

Alcoholism is also bad for the nutritional system. Alcoholics often take in most of their calories from alcohol, and ignore the fact that you should have a healthy, balanced diet. I know that when I was on Weight Watchers I would eat less and drink more in order to lose weight. I always counted those calories, and I wouldn't be hungry when drinking a lot. You run the risk of all sorts of disorders from not getting enough vitamins.

What I didn't think about, though is that, "One of the main alcohol nutrition facts that perhaps most people don't realize is that the vitamin and nutrition deficiencies experienced by most alcoholics is not mainly due to poor eating habits, but from the malfunctioning of the body's organs and systems."

Your organs get pretty messed up with alcohol. Your liver and gallbladder aren't able to process a lot of stuff, and neither is your colon. Sometimes when you get the diarrhea associated with lots of drinking, or you vomit a lot, you aren't getting even the water that you are drinking, or the nutrients. Your colon does a lot to process nutrients. If it's not able to work, you're deficient.

Amazing what the body can do, and amazing how we fuck it up with substances.