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16 Harmful Effects of Alcohol to the Body

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“Alcohol brings me out to the world,” a shy person will be heard screaming as they drown the depressant downer to raise their spirits. Do you know the harmful effects of alcohol to your body? The following picture highlights these 16 harmful effects of alcohol to your body.

  1. Brain damage. Classified as a cardiovascular problem, alcohol leads to the brain being  distressed making the alcoholic experience confusion, reduced
  2. Cordination and poor short-term memory.
  3. Addiction. This is the loss of control of ones decision making process. The alcohol becomes the decider rather than the person.
  4. Stroke. This occurs when alcohol creates High blood pressure that leads the blood vessels to puncture leading to strokes.
  5. Blurred Vision. To much alcohol affects the vision of a person and is one of the lead causes of accidents. Alcohol has also led to many losing eyesight.
  6. Slurred Speech. Alcohol affects one speech making one have a speech that is hard to understand and causes poor communication.
  7. Bleeding throat. Especially hard liquor alcohol can harm and cause a bleeding throat which in turn affects one eating. 
  8. Breathing may stop. Too much alcohol stresses the lungs and could lead to a person not being able to breath in air and could cause many other organs to fail and ultimate death.
  9. Heart disease and irregular heart beats. The heart develops abnormal heartbeat and sometimes fails.
  10. Stomach ulcers. These are defects caused by poor feeding that in turn bring about anemia, birth defects, skin damage, diarrhea and depression.
  11. Liver failure: As the liver tries to remove the excessive alcohol it may become inflamed and develop a cancer which may make it to fail.
  12. Muscle weakness. The nerves also deteriorate in arms and legs leading to reduced ability to walk or use arms.
  13. Intestinal cancer. These is a cancer in the intestines resulting from the acids irregularity.
  14. Impotence in men
  15. Infertility in women
  16. Osteoporosis
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