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Old 08-02-2011, 04:29 PM
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wywriter
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Originally Posted by catlovermi View Post
I forgot to say that the liver makes digestive enzymes, so if he has liver damage and the liver can't make adequate enzymes, even if he's eating well he may not be digesting and then absorbing enough nutrients, so in effect may have alcoholic malnutrition.

CLMI
Ah, I hadn't thought of that either -- I'm sure even if he's still digesting well, he has some malnutrition issues. He eats a good, well-balanced diet...for about one meal a day. Some days he eats two meals, but not often. When he's drinking, if he eats at all it's usually a few pieces of lunch meat or something similar that he can easily snitch out of the fridge, and that's about once every couple of days. If there's a plus side, it's that between that and Bountiful Baskets, our food bill for a family of four is about $100 a month.
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