alcohol consumption

Alcohol affects us in various ways and our social skills; After one or two drinks you begin to become more your self and more talkative as the alcohol reaches the brain and affects your cognitive abilities.
Alcohol causes your heart rate to speed up and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the little blood vessels in the skin widen, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

How Alcohol Affects Our Health

The results of drinking extreme amounts of alcohol can be terrible. Alcohol health implications 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. You slurr your words, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.

Drinking heavily also increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partly responsible for 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 causes you to get a hangover the next day, often being undesirable to experience. You may feel stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol misuse also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol can also make you feel depressed, guilty

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Drinking more than the recommmended daily amounts regularly you are putting your health at risk. Alcohol abuse in large quantities increases blood pressure.

Alcohol misuse is often connected with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people with anxiety or depression were twice as likely to be heavy drinkers.

Large quantities of drinking may occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where the person beleives others are plotting against them. Consuming large amounts of alcohol can lead to isolation and depression.

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