Alcohol effects – How Does Alcohol Affect Your Health

Alcohol abuse affects us in many ways. After one or two drinks you may feel more comfortable and more talkative as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol misuse causes your heart rate to increase and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making tiny blood vessels in the skin dilate, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

The Effects of Alcohol

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

Drinking alcohol 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!

Hangovers

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

consuming more than the guideline levels regularly you are putting your health at risk. Consuming alcohol in large quantities increases blood pressure.

Aclohol consumption is often connected with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people with depression or anxiety were twice as likely to be alcoholics.

Big quantities of drinking may occasionally lead to ‘psychosis’, a serious mental illness where the person beleives others are plotting against them. Heavy drinking could lead to isolation and sadness.