27th Jul 2009

Alcohol effects - How Does Alcohol Affect Your Health

Alcohol affects us in lots of ways. After 1 or 2 drinks you may feel more confident and more talkative as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol consumption causes your heart rate to increase and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making small blood vessels in the skin widen, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

Effects of Alcohol

Effects of alcohol on health include slowed breathing and heartbeat, loss of consciousness, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, anxiety, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning.

Heavy drinking also increases your calorie intake. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and in a bottle there are over 500 calories!

The morning after

Aclohol abuse may cause you to get a hangover the next morning. You may feel sickness, nausea stomach ache, and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol also dehydrates you. Aclohol abuse can also make you feel sad and guilty.

consuming more than the guidline daily levels often you are putting your health in damger. Consuming larger amounts of alcohol increases blood pressure.

Drinking alcohol is frequently correlated with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people suffering from anxiety and depression were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.

Big quantities of drinking could occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a serious mental illness where hallucinations and delusions of persecution develop. Consuming large amounts of alcohol can lead to lonliness and depression.

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