There are various ways that alcohol consumption can affect our health and our social skills; After one or two drinks you begin to become more at ease and more socialble as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects the way you think.
Alcohol consumption causes your heart rate to quicken and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the little Veins in the skin widen, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
Effects of Alcohol on your health
The effects of drinking too much alcohol can be dire. Alcohol health problems 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. 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.
Drinking heavily also increases your calorie intake, which is why alcohol is a big factor in adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and over 500 in a bottle. Thats approximately 1 quarter of the national guidline daily amount!
The morning after - hangover unpleasantries
Alcohol might cause you to get a hangover the next morning, often being undesirable to experience. You may experience sickness, nausea stomach ache, and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol consumption also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel upset, guilty
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consuming more than the guideline amounts regularly you are putting your health at risk. Alcohol abuse in large quantities increases blood pressure.
Alcohol is regularly related with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people with anxiety or depression were twice as likely to be alcoholics.
Large levels of drinking could sometimes cause ‘psychosis’, a severe mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Consuming large amounts of alcohol could lead to isolation and unhappiness.
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