Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...
Drinking during pregnancy: Consuming any amount of alcohol while pregnant. Short-Term Effects There are multiple short-term risks of excessive alcohol consumption.
Although it’s common knowledge that drinking too much is unhealthy, research sometimes conflicts about where the dividing line is between permissible and risky alcohol consumption — and ...
Kilmer said that by the 40-minute mark, when the physical effects of alcohol kick in — alcohol depresses, or slows down, the central nervous system — participants in the fourth group ...
Alcohol expectations are beliefs and attitudes that people have about the effects they will experience when drinking alcoholic beverages. Alcohol expectancy theory posits that drinking behaviors are driven by these expectations, and the individual may be motivated to drink to obtain desired alcohol effects or, alternatively, motivated to ...
Some effects of alcohol intoxication, such as euphoria and lowered social inhibition, are central to alcohol's desirability. [21] As drinking increases, people become sleepy or fall into a stupor. At very high blood alcohol concentrations, for example above 0.3%, the respiratory system becomes depressed and the person may stop breathing. [22]
“Excessive or long-term consumption of alcohol has been linked to an increased risk of various types of cancer,” says Manaker. This includes oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, liver ...
Acute alcohol intoxication through excessive doses in general causes short- or long-term health effects. NMDA receptors become unresponsive, slowing areas of the brain for which they are responsible. Contributing to this effect is the activity that alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system.