Cristhian Jimenez M.

TN2

How does alcohol affect our body?

For thousands of years many cereals, fruit juices and even honey have been using
to made alcoholic drinks, these drinks are very famous and popular currently.
However, most of the people don’t know how these products can affect our body
from the moment they are consumed.

The alcoholic drinks have inside ethanol, this liquid is the most dangerous thing
inside the drink because can produce some alterations in our body that can affect
our live style.

When we consume alcohol, it took about 30-40 minutes to arrive to our blood, then,
our first feelings are of happy and satisfaction, and before we start to lose our vision
and our coordination we can’t see clearly, and our senses didn’t function as they
should. If we drink a lot of alcohol our body can’t stop it and the alcohol spreads for
our all body, and with an excessive consumption the alcohol can even produce
death.
Drink alcohol affects many organs:
Brain: alcohol can affect

 our emotions
 our personality (can be permanent)
 our coordination
 our reactions are so slow
 we can lose our balance too
 we can lose our memory (can be permanent)
Digestive system: alcohol can produce diseases such as:

 Diabetes
 Cancer

The nineteenth century brought a change of attitude and an anti-alcohol campaign

began to promote the moderate use of alcohol, something that eventually became a
total ban. However, today, it is estimated that 15 million Americans are affected by
alcoholism and 40% of all deaths from automobile accidents in the United States are
related to alcohol.
Cristhian Jimenez M. TN2