Alcohol is the second most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world .Alcohol is a toxic substance so having it frequently circulating in your body will harm your health. Alcohol can affect your health in numerous ways. They include health, emotional, social, work or school, and financial problems.

Ethyl alcohol or ethanol, are commonly known as alcohol. The consumption of ethanol has been shown to exert profound effects on cellular membranes which result in damage and/or adaptation. Read the rest of this entry →

The brain is the control center of the body; it controls all the systems in your body including your muscular system, your respiratory system and your digestive system. So brain plays important role for us, but Alcohol can affect several parts of the brain, but in general, alcohol contracts brain tissue and depresses the central nervous system.

Alcohol also enters the cell membranes of neurons and changes their properties Acute and chronic alcohol consumption can have both subtle as well as dramatic effects on the brain and its functioning. Read the rest of this entry →

Food supplies energy and provides the building blocks needed to replace worn or damaged cells and the nutritional components needed for body function. Once ingested, food must be digested, so it is available for energy and maintenance of body structure and function Digestion begins in the mouth and continues in the stomach and intestines, with help from the pancreas.

Alcohol increases the stomach’s digestive enzymes, which can irritate the stomach wall, producing heartburn, nausea, gastritis, and ulcers. Even moderate drinking can still cause changes in gastric acid secretion, cause acute gastric mucosal injury, and also interfere with gastric and intestinal motility. Alcohol causes damage to the muscles that surround the stomach, and this damage changes how long it takes food to go through these organs. Read the rest of this entry →

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 →