How Alcohol Affects Your Body?

arlene — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:39:01 +0000

Your brain.
Alcohol, even in small amounts, causes irreparable damage to brain cells; some die and others are altered. (this really sounds scary. so i better let go of my that social drinking session that happens even once in a blue moon)

Your heart.
Alcohol incrases the risk of hypertension, stroke, and damage to the heart muscle.

Your lungs.
Alcohol dperesses respiratory functions.

Your reproductive system.
In men, alcohol can damage cells in the testes, causing impotence, sterility, and possibly enlarged breasts. In women, alcohol can cause irregular menstrual cycles and malfunctioning of the ovaries. Alcohol has been also linked to birth defects in infants and to fetal alcohol syndrome.

Your liver.
Because your liver must filter alcohol from the blood, alcohol affects it more than any other organ of your body:

Excess calories in alcohol are stored as fat int he liver.
Functioning liver cells die from alcoholic poisoning.
Scar tissue replaces dead cells, causing cirrhosis.

Your immune system.
Alcohol weakens the body’s defence against infection and breast cancer.

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am gonna show this article to my sister. because i remember long time ago we fought one time she was drunk. then when she was sober, i told her about the bad effects of alcohol in our body and she truly knew that, then she answered me, “all those bad stuff can just be read in books but won’t happen real.” i was really angry that time. hehehee

How Alcohol Affects our Body

arlene — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:36:28 +0000