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Seven Ways You'll Feel The Effects Of Alcohol

Most of us don't spend long thinking about the effects of alcohol on our bodies. Alcohol has probably become a pleasant part of your daily or weekly routine - like many people you enjoy a glass of wine with your meal or a drink with friends.

The only problem is - as we grow older – alcohol affects us more. So, if you're serious about slowing down the aging process, it's important to understand just what effect alcohol is having on your body. Here's a quick list of seven things you might want to bear in mind next time you pop that cork:

1. Alcohol causes liver damage

Most of us already know that this is one of the worst aspects of excessive drinking and can ultimately in extreme cases cause liver failure and death. Bear in mind that to your liver alcohol is a poison - the more you take in the harder it works to eliminate it.

2. Drinking alcohol makes you more likely to develop osteoporosis

This is one effect of alcohol not many people are aware of and it matters quite a lot - especially to women. Osteoporosis is one of the most aging conditions you can have and is most likely to affect women. Alcohol interferes with the absorption of calcium in your body and the more alcohol you drink now the more chance there is of developing brittle bones later in life.

3. Alcohol ages your skin

Not to be taken lightly this one. Even if you aren't put off by health problems you probably don't want damaged or prematurely wrinkled skin. Alcohol causes the small blood vessels to widen, producing flushed skin and often broken veins. And what's more, because alcohol is dehydrating, your skin will also be more prone to premature wrinkling.

4. Alcohol will pile on the pounds.

Your favorite tipple is really just empty calories adding no food value to your daily diet. To get rid of the extra calories from one drink you need to walk a mile – consider that over your next glass of wine. Even worse – because alcohol has no nutritional value in itself drinking is likely to stimulate your appetite meaning you eat more than you need.

5. Alcohol affects your brain

In the short term that means all the symptoms of intoxication – how bad it gets depends on how much you drink and other factors like your size, how tired you are, when you drink and whether you eat as well. Getting mildly drunk may be a subject of fun and even enjoyable but long term we're talking about the destruction of brain cells, memory loss and dementia - not so amusing.

6. Alcohol affects women more than men

The less you weigh the more likely you are to become drunk because heavier people have more blood and water in the body to dilute the alcohol. Also as alcohol is stored in fat and women tend to have more fat than men - it takes us much longer to eliminate the alcohol from our bodies.

7. The effects of alcohol worsen with age

From the age of 40 onwards we tend to store more fat so the time the body takes to process and eliminate alcohol increases. So if you feel that you can't drink as much as you used to without feeling the effects – you're right.

If that all sounds like bad news on the alcohol front - consider the experience of the French. French people eat a diet that contains one of the highest levels of fat in the world and despite this they have a 42% less heart disease than Americans.

They owe their increased resistance to heart disease largely due to wine consumption - although it is probably true that the healthier French diet has something to do with it.

Scientists have linked the protective effects of wine to an organic compound known as 'resveratrol' that's found in red wine. Californian red is among the wines with the highest concentration of resveratrol in the world.

So consumption of a very moderate amount of the right kind of alcohol - plus a healthy diet - is the way to go. Drink wisely and the effects of alcohol on the body can be positive. Uncontrolled drinking on the other hand will interfere with your health and your looks!

Article Source: http://wellnessarticles.net

Managing the effects of alcohol is part of choosing a positive anti aging life style. Looking younger and feeling great depends on what you eat, how much you drink, how fit you are as well as how well you care for your skin. Beauty and age are never simply skin deep!

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