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The Affect Of Alcohol On Internal Organs 0

Posted on September 04, 2009 by admin

Alcohol is a toxic substance so having it frequently circulating in your body will harm your health. Alcohol is addictive. It is important to remember that alcohol addiction can have a devastating effect on social relationships and work. Some of the causes of Alcohol are given below, which affect our system:

  • The organ which most frequently undergoes structural changes from alcohol is the liver, which often leads to death.
  • Consumption of alcohol greatly affects the heart. Alcohol is an important cause of high blood pressure (hypertension), itself a cause of stroke Read the rest of this entry →

Mental Disturbances Caused By Alcohol 0

Posted on September 03, 2009 by admin

If you disturb the healthy condition of the brain, which is the physical organ through which the mind acts, you disturb the mind. If the disease which has attacked the brain goes on increasing, it will surely affect your mental health too. So by the use f Alcohol we can surely affect our mental health.

Alcohol is the second most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world. There is evidence to suggest that regular consumption of alcohol, may effects on brain functioning and on cognitive competence depending on the quantities involved. The number of those mental disturbances which are caused by alcohol intoxication is a very considerable one. Read the rest of this entry →

Effects Of Alcohol On The Blood 0

Posted on September 03, 2009 by admin

Ethyl alcohol or ethanol, known commonly as alcohol, is the same whether the beverage is wine, beer, or hard liquor. Beverage alcohol is a drug that depresses the central nervous system, like barbiturates, sedatives, and anesthetics. One effect of drinking alcohol is “blood-sludging” where the red blood cells clump together causing the small blood vessels to plug up, starve the tissues of oxygen, and cause cell death.

The drinker’s blood alcohol level rises as a factor of the relationship among the amount of alcohol consumed, body size and proportion of body fat, the amount of food in the stomach, and what is mixed with the alcohol. When a person drinks more alcohol than his or her body can eliminate, alcohol accumulates in the blood stream and the blood alcohol level rises. Read the rest of this entry →

Alcohol Has No Food Value 1

Posted on August 26, 2009 by admin

A food may be defined as a substance whose dominant property in the body is to build up the tissues or to yield energy Good nutrition can help to improve your health and prevent diseases.

alcohol-has-no-food-value Some people feel that alcohol is another necessity in their diet, while others feel that any amount is toxic and needs to be avoided.  But it is wrong that Alcohol is useful for us. Alcohol has no power to build tissue.

It has none of the nitrogenous parts found in meats, eggs, milk, vegetables and seeds, out of which tissue are built, or any of the carbonaceous elements found in fat, starch and sugar Alcohol has no food value and is exceedingly limited in its action as a remedial agent. Read the rest of this entry →



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