Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Alcohol effects on our body


Most of us must have drunk alcohol before throughout their lifetime – well except for those Muslims friends. We might not drink it daily or regularly but the fact that we did drink it once in a while in some occasion like wedding dinner, friends or relative get together, New Year celebration and etc. I agreed that if you consume it once in a while are somehow good for health – or I can say at least won’t affects your health. What about those regular drinkers? Will their health deteriorate due to regular drinking? Well it obviously does affects our body if drank too much. Refer to America National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), here’s how alcohol can affects our body if consume too much in a long run.

Brain

The affects on brain will be in short term and long term. Difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory – these impairments are detectable after only few drinks and quickly resolved after drinking stops. Exactly how alcohol affects the brain and the likelihood of reversing the impact of heavy drinking on the brain remain hot topics in alcohol research today. A number of factors influence how and to what extent alcohol affects the brain;