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Chronic Alcoholism leads to poor caloric intake and eventually nerve damage because there isn't enough protein to nourish the insulating covering of nerves... Nerves are like electric wires... they have a protein covering around the to keep the nerve impulses from "grounding out" into the tissue [and subsequently don't reach the brain]...

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