Effects of Alcohol

Physical Effects of Alcohol

By the time you start drinking, alcohol will start affecting not just your body but also your mind. After one or two drinks you can eventually feel better, confidence will improve and you will become more sociable but drinking to much will make walking and talking become much harder for you. You might also start to say things that you don’t mean and start behaving wild. Some of alcohol’s effects may disappear overnight but others can stay with the mind of your friends, and become permanent.


If you will drink a lot night before, you are most likely to wake up with a hangover. Alcohol can irritate the stomach, heavy drinking can cause sickness and nausea and also diarrhea. Alcohol can also dehydrate people, it is the reason why drinking can lead to massive headache the moment you wake up.

Appearance

Alcohol can help you increase your waistline, drinking too much alcohol can make you fat. Some studies reveals that a man drinking five pints a week consumes the same number of calories as someone getting through 221 doughnuts a year. 

If you are working out during days and drinking during night, your effort of getting fit will be useless. You are just making the scenario worst.

Drinking too much alcohol can also affect your skin. It could also cause bloating and eyebags, alcohol also dries your skin and can lead to wrinkles and premature aging. It is known that people who are drinkers looks a lot older than people who are not even though they are of the same age.

Alcohol poisoning

Alcohol poisoning causes lung damage (as you inhale your own vomit) and even lead to a heart attack.

Diseases and cancers

Liver disease

Studies shows that liver disease used to affect mainly drinkers in middle age, but now victims are getting younger.

Cancer

Alcohol abuse contributes to a large number of cancers, including liver cancer and mouth cancer, both of which are on the increase. Alcohol is second to smoking as a risk factor for oral and digestive tract cancers. 


Pancreatitis and diabetes

Pancreatitis is another disease caused by drinking. It results when your pancreas becomes inflamed and cells are damaged. Chronic Pancreatitis often results to Diabetes.

Heart disease

Some studies suggests that alcohol can help prevent heart disease often hit the headlines, the truth is that the jury’s still out on the extent of any benefits. And it is clear that any benefits coming from alcohol are arising from small amount of intake.

Mental Health

Drinking could also affect our mental health. Brain is one of the most affected organ while drinking. 

Dependence

Alcohols are addictive, it could affect a person's way of living as well as his family and friends, worst it could cost him his job.

These are some of the bad effects of alcohol. These could be prevented if people could be responsible enough to moderate the amount of alcohol that they are drinking or better if they will totally stop drinking. People tend to stop drinking only by the time they can feel the symptoms slowly appearing in their body. In that case, it is already to late to stop because alcohol already affected some of their organs.

Alcohol is addictive, drink moderately or better not to drink at all.