1. What is alcohol?
Alcohol is a liquid made by fermenting or distilling the grains, fruits or vegetables. In beverages, the pure alcohol is diluted with other ingredients. The chemical name for alcohol is Ethyl alcohol or Ethanol.
2. What does alcohol do in the body?
Alcohol enters the bloodstream from the stomach and the intestine and it is carried to other parts of the body quite quickly through the blood stream. It reaches the brain at once.
Alcohol stays in the body, until it is metabolized (broken down) by the liver and eventually leaves the body through breath, sweat and urine.
3. How does alcohol affect the body?
Alcohol has a specific affect on the brain and thus dramatic impact on our behavior. The more alcohol is in the blood, the greater the impact, on our judgment capacity, reaction time to any instinct, co-ordination, vision, speech, balance of the body and walking etc.
4. Is alcohol a drug?
Yes. It is the most popular drug in your neighborhood and commonly used and abused by the teens and adolescents. People spend lots of amount of money on beer, wine and liquor.
5. How much is one standard drink?
Because of the different percentages of alcohol in the beverages, people usually believe that some kinds of alcohol are safer or don’t get you drunk so fast. The facts are as follows:
(341mlor12oz) 1 bottle of Beer = 1 glass of Wine (142ml/5oz) = A glass of Whisky (43ml/1.5oz).
The type of drink makes no difference, because whether it Is in Beer, Wine or liquor, alcohol is alcohol.
6. What is the fastest way to sober up?
Doing nothing is the best way. Even cold showers or coffee or any other remedy doesn’t help. The only thing that will help sober up is time. Because the liver needs sufficient time to burn and eliminate the alcohol from the body.
7. What does alcohol do to our moods?
A lot depends on the drinker’s moods and where they are drinking. After a couple of drinks, a person might feel more relaxed, another one feels depressed, yet another more becomes wild and a fourth one gets angry. People who get depression can even become verse in mood.
8. How long does it take to get rid of the effects of alcohol?
A hangover is your body’s way of grounding you and there is no cure for hangover other than time. The more you drink, the longer you’re going to be grounded, because it requires two hours for the body to get rid of the effect of one drink (one beer or equivalent of it).
So even if you have one drink an hour, alcohol builds up in your blood, because you are drinking faster than your body is burning that alcohol.
9. What are the some other long- term effects on the body?
Alcohol damages the liver, heart, brain, loss of appetite, burning sensation in the stomach, sexual problems and memory loss etc.
Stay away from Alcohol and save your body from diseases.
