Our Weekend Friend: Mr Alcohol
So we have all had massive weekends and ect on the booozee, more often then not we have a frinken great time!! Shoting shots with mates, having a laugh because alcohol just makes everything 100% more funnier !! but then there are those nights that catch us off guard, those nights that make the hang over the next morning, just so much worst!! We have all had these nights, weather you want to admit it or not!
These nights that lend to maybe vomiting in random places and getting that shit in your hair! Crying and being all emotional about things, you dont really care about that much normally ! Those nights you are being that drunk person who gets kicked out of the club and says a bunch of dumb shit thinking your sticking up for yourself but really your words dont really make any damn sense and you just look like an ass.. You might tell the wrong person a secret or 20, fight with a complete stranger or worst a love one! Those shit nights, you wake up the next morning and realise “fuk” you lost your wallet/bag/camera…
Ive taken the time to get some interesting facts together about our friend MR Alcohol, because knowledge is power! YES we all know little facts about alcohol, but obversely not enough because each weekend these events happen to the best of us! I believe more people need to do more research about well ..generally everything in life!
Your brain will be the first part of the body to be affected: the alcohol will dull the parts of the brain that control how your body works, affecting your actions and your ability to make decisions and control your actions.
At first, you may feel happy and less inhibited but after a few more drinks you’ll probably start to slur your words, get blurred vision, and lose your coordination. Alcohol affects your mood and can also make you feel down or aggressive.
Professor McMurran points out that “Alcohol reduces anxiety,” and that “This is one of the reasons we enjoy drinking, but anxiety actually protects us by telling us to avoid or escape certain situations. When we’re drunk, this warning system doesn’t work and this can put us in dangerous or confrontational situations.”
“Normally we might take other factors into account – for example the consequences of rising to the bait – but when we’ve been drinking we tend to focus on just one thing at a time. This can lead to violent reactions from people who would usually shrug things off.”
Alcohol also affects the way we process information. When we’ve been drinking we’re more likely to misinterpret other people’s behaviour and misread social cues. This could be the reason why so many drunken fights start over little things.
- Women generally are smaller and weigh less than men and have less tissue to absorb alcohol.
- Women’s bodies are made up of more fat and less water than men’s. So, if a man and a woman are the same size and drink the same amount, the alcohol is stronger in the woman’s blood than in the man’s and she will get drunk more quickly and feel the effects for longer.
- Women have lower levels of the enzyme that breaks down alcohol, so alcohol will stay in their system longer and have a greater effect.
- Women also feel the effects of alcohol more quickly than normal just before a period and during ovulation. The contraceptive pill can have the opposite effect: it takes longer for the alcohol to leave the body, and a woman may drink more than she realises before she feels the effects.
Why is Binge Drinking bad for you, you may ask?? Drinking large amounts of alcohol can result in confusion, blurred vision, poor muscle control, nausea, vomiting, sleep, coma or even death. It can also impair a person’s judgement and decision-making capacity, which can increase the risk that they may do silly things and put themselves in dangerous situations.
- Cardiovascular system – raised blood pressure and triglycerides (especially after binge drinking), damage to the heart muscle and stroke.
- Nervous system – brain damage, tremors, dementia and nerve damage. Alcohol is a depressant drug and affects your coordination, self-control, judgement and reaction times.
- Gastrointestinal system – stomach inflammation (gastritis) and bleeding.
- Liver – cancer, hepatitis (inflammation), fatty changes, cirrhosis and liver failure.
- Endocrine system – problems controlling blood sugar, loss of libido and reduced fertility.
- Nutrition – malnutrition (alcohol displaces nutrients from your body) and obesity.
- Breast cancer and other gynaecological problems – women who drink alcohol are at a higher risk than non-drinking women.
- Start with a non-alcoloholic drink.
- Eat before and while drinking to slow the absorption of alcohol into your bloodstream.
- Avoid salty snacks that make you thirsty and make you drink more.
- Make every second or third drink non-alcoholic.
- Try low-alcohol drinks.
- Always keep your drink with you to minimise the risk of drink spiking
- Alcohol mixed with water or fruit juice is absorbed more slowly, while fizzy drinks or mixers speed up the absorption process.
- Cold showers, exercise, black coffee, fresh air or vomiting will not speed up the process
- Drinking alcohol can affect how the brain develops in people under the age of 25. Teenagers under 15 years of age are particularly at risk.
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Most of the alcohol in the body (about 91%) is broken down by the liver. A small amount also leaves the body in urine, sweat and the breath. Since the liver can only break down about three-quarters of a standard drink an hour, sobering up takes time. So cold showers, exercise, black coffee, fresh air or vomiting will not speed up the process.Your welcome for this information!!!! :D :D DRINK SAFE NOW!! :D
