Alcohol effects - How Does Alcohol Affect Your Health

Alcohol consumption affects us in lots of ways. After one or two drinks you may feel more confident and more socialble as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol consumption causes your heart rate to increase and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making little Veins in the skin dilate, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

Effects of Alcohol on Health

Alcohol misuse health implications 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.

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

Hangovers

Alcohol can cause you to have a hangover the next day. You may get sickness, nausea stomach ache, and sometimes diarrhea, Drinking alcohol also dehydrates you. Aclohol consumption can also make you feel depressed and guilty.

If you drink over the recommended levels regularly you are putting your health in damger. Consuming larger amounts of alcohol increases blood pressure.

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

High levels of drinking may sometimes lead to ‘psychosis’, a serious mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Heavy drinking may lead to seclusion and sadness.