Alcohol effects - How Might Alcohol Affect Your Health
Alcohol misuse can have many affects on our health and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you often become more comfortable and more talkative as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects the way you think.
Alcohol misuse causes your heart rate to quicken and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the minute Veins in the skin enlarge, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
The Effects of Alcohol on your health
The dangers of drinking large amounts of alcohol can be dire. The effects of alcohol consumption include anxiety, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, loss of consciousness, slowed breathing and heartbeat, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. There are also many mental effects, inducing guilt, anger and even paranoia, for no real reason. Your words may slurr, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.
Heavy drinking also increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partly responsible for adult obesity. There are 125 calories in a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine and over 500 in a bottle. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!
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Drinking more than the recommmended daily units regularly you are putting your health at risk. Large amounts of alcohol consumed increases blood pressure.
Alcohol misuse is regularly linked with mental health problems. It has been found that people enduring anxiety and depression were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.
High levels of drinking may occasionally lead to ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Consuming large amounts of alcohol might lead to lonliness and unhappiness.
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