Alcohol problems – How Does Alcohol Affect Your Health

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Alcohol affects us in many ways and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you start to become more confident and more talkative as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol abuse causes your heart rate to increase and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the little Veins in the skin enlarge, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

The Effects of Alcohol on Our Health

The effects of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol can be dire. The effects of alcohol misuse 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. 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 increases your calorie intake, suggesting why alcohol is a huge factor in 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 misuse may cause you to have a hangover the next morning, which often has undesirable affects. You may feel stomach ache, sometimes diarrhea, sickness and nausea, Drinking alcohol also dehydrates you. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel depressed, guilty

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Drinking more than the recommmended daily units often you are putting your health in damger. Consuming alcohol in large quantities increases blood pressure.

Alcohol misuse is regularly linked with mental health problems. It has been found that people suffering from depression or anxiety were twice as likely to be heavy drinkers.

Large levels of drinking can occasionally lead to ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Consuming large amounts of alcohol could lead to isolation and hopelessness.

 

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