Alcohol consumption can have many affects on our health and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you may feel more relaxed and more chatty as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects your cognitive abilities.
Alcohol consumption causes your heart rate to quicken and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the small Veins in the skin enlarge, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
The Effects of Alcohol on Health
The results of drinking too much alcohol can be terrible. Effects of alcohol 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. Drinking too much alcohol can also effect you mentally (generally temporarily), 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 increases your calorie intake, giving an indication as to why alcohol is a large part of adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and in a bottle there are over 500 calories. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!
The morning after – hangover unpleasantries
Alcohol abuse might cause you to have a hangover the next morning, which often has undesirable affects. You may experience stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel sad, guilty
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Drinking more than the recommended levels often you are putting your health in damger. Large amounts of alcohol consumed increases blood pressure.
Alcohol is frequently linked with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people enduring anxiety or depression were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.
Large quantities of drinking may occasionally lead to ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where the person beleives others are out to get them. Consuming large amounts of alcohol could lead to isolation and hopelessness.
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