Wot is the point of drinking alchol ?!
Wot is the point of drinking alchol ?
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you tell me im a muslim and i don't drink!
Get WAASSSSTEEEED
the point is to alter the personality.
It's fun!!
people think it gives them confidents, peer pressure, advertisments things like that
nothing, really. i always feel guilty ingesting empty calories.
when you have also personal problems you drink more glasses more than else
Get tipsy, lose inhibition, hit on every hot woman (and some not so hot) in sight, drink more, lose recollection of the rest of the evening, wake up in strange place feeling not as well as you were last night with some monstrosity cuddling up to you. Ahh, liquor!
I don't know what the point of drinking alcohol is. I think it is completely pointless, you basically drink it to make yourself be someone your not. I know I don't like being around drunk people, especially those who get stupid drunk and start doing idiotic things. Basically their is no point!
To get hangover ;)
to make you forget your daily problems and escape the world of reality.
Alcohol is a depressant. As such, it does a great job of relaxing the body and the mind.
Some points may be different than others.
To relax and unwind after a long day at work.
To loosen up and relax on a first or blind date.
To take your mind off of something that you don't want to think about anymore.
Alcohol is a depressant, and acts to numb the brain sensors,
there is really no medicinal value.
G.
It varies; it could be to loosen up and be more comfortable in a social setting, or to just throw all of your inhibitions to the wind. I personally drink to deal with depression.
*Remember*: Never Drink & Drive!*
To have fun if you are 21 years or older.
But it can be abused just like any other drug!
Alcohol makes you feel relaxed, many people enjoy a drink or two to unwind. excessive drinking makes you drunk (obviously) and your sense of reality changes. hence people think they can dance (lol) or get into trouble. a glass of red wine a day has been proven to be beneficial to health.
people were questioned on why they drink alcohol:
Sociability (71%)
Like the taste (51%)
Feel at ease (12%)
Get intoxicated (6%)
Get drunk (2%)
Because everybody does it (6%)
To forget problems (0%)
Alcohol gets risky when you need more to feel good. If you can't do that anymore on your own, and you use the alcohol for it, at a certain point you run the risk of starting to drink more and more each time to still feel the effects. This can be the beginning of an addiction. If you drink to feel good, you should ask yourself if you can also feel at ease without alcohol.
In the case of moderate use, alcohol has positive effects. You can get livelier, easier and relaxed. You can talk more easily and feel less tired.
According to some researchers, moderate alcohol use protects against cardiovascular diseases. This means a maximum of 2-3 glasses of wine or beer a day for men, and 1 to 2 glasses a day for women.
Socially, some people claim that it also has positive effects. It provides a lot of employment in the production, catering and retail of products and services in which alcohol plays a part. Also, people claim that alcoholic beverages helps people socialize.
Negative:
Excessive alcohol use increases the risk of a number of diseases: fatty degeneration of the liver, infection of the liver, liver cirrhosis ( More ) , sleeping disorders, sexual problems, infection of the esophagus, infection of the stomach, infection of the pancreas, premature dementia, varying from a reduction of memory to the serious syndrome of Korsakoff; cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, intestines and breasts; hypertension and heart problems. Alcohol is also damaging during pregnancy. Also alcohol takes its toll in traffic.
Alcohol plays an important role in aggression. 40% of all incidents involving aggression occur while under the influence of alcohol. The police spend 22% of their time on cases involving alcohol. Violence on the streets and domestic violence while under the influence of alcohol happen often.
to escape the world around them, to seem cool, or to get wasted.
lighten up, be more sociable, feel a sense of ease...and wake up with a great excuse to eat a greasy breakfast!
well...a glass of wine (specifically red) has been scientifically proven to help in all sorts of heart conditions.
and it's nice to catch a lil' social buzz once in awhile.
moderation is key.
I think that if there is a particular drink that you enjoy say at dinner or maybe after dinner or maybe while you are playing cards then that is fine. Drinking alcohol should not be about seeing how fast or how much of it you can drink at one time! Socially it is a great thing. Sometimes a drink can take the edge of enough to make someone more comfortable with a group of people they are not used to, might make them open up better. Sometimes I swig it for a BAD toothache! It is not all bad!
so that we can tolerate people that can't spell the word what and alcohol correctly
Are you kidding me?! It is wonderful! It makes you feel REALLY good and it tastes good!
to get lost, to forget everythin
Throughout the 10,000 or so years that humans have been drinking fermented beverages, they've also been arguing about their merits and demerits. The debate still simmers today, with a lively back-and-forth over whether alcohol is good for you or bad for you.
It's safe to say that alcohol is both a tonic and a poison. The difference lies mostly in the dose. Moderate drinking seems to be good for the heart and circulatory system, and probably protects against type 2 diabetes and gallstones. Heavy drinking is a major cause of preventable death in most countries. In the U.S., alcohol is implicated in about half of fatal traffic accidents.(1) Heavy drinking can damage the liver and heart, harm an unborn child, increase the chances of developing breast and some other cancers, contribute to depression and violence, and interfere with relationships.
Alcohol's two-faced nature shouldn't come as a surprise. The active ingredient in alcoholic beverages, a simple molecule called ethanol, affects the body in many different ways. It directly influences the stomach, brain, heart, gallbladder, and liver. It affects levels of lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) and insulin in the blood, as well as inflammation and coagulation. It also alters mood, concentration, and coordination.
What's "Moderate"? What's "A Drink"?
Loose use of terms has fueled some of the ongoing debate about alcohol's impact on health. In some studies, the term "moderate drinking" refers to less than one drink per day, while in others it means three or four drinks per day. Exactly what constitutes "a drink" is also fairly fluid. In fact, even among alcohol researchers, there's no universally accepted standard drink definition.(2)
In the U.S., one drink is usually considered to be 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1? ounces of spirits (hard liquor such as gin or whiskey).(3) Each delivers about 12 to 14 grams of alcohol.
The definition of moderate drinking is something of a balancing act. Moderate drinking sits at the point at which the health benefits of alcohol clearly outweigh the risks. The latest consensus places this point at no more than one to two drinks per day for men, and no more than one drink per day for women. This is the definition used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and is widely used in the U.S.
Possible Health Benefits of Alcohol
Cardiovascular Disease
More than 100 prospective studies show an inverse association between moderate drinking and risk of heart attack, ischemic (clot-caused) stroke, peripheral vascular disease, sudden cardiac death, and death from all cardiovascular causes.(4) The effect is fairly consistent, corresponding to a 25-40% reduction in risk. Results of some of the largest of these are summarized in Table 1.
The connection between moderate drinking and lower risk of cardiovascular disease has been observed in men and women. It applies to people who do not apparently have heart disease. It also applies to those at high risk for having a heart attack or stroke or dying of cardiovascular disease - people with type 2 diabetes (5) and those with high blood pressure, angina (chest pain), a prior heart attack, or other forms of cardiovascular disease.(5-8)
The idea that moderate drinking protects against cardiovascular disease is biologically and scientifically plausible. Moderate amounts of alcohol raise levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" cholesterol),(6) and higher HDL levels are associated with greater protection against heart disease. Moderate alcohol consumption has also been linked with beneficial changes in a variety of factors that influence blood clotting, such as tissue type plasminogen activator, fibrinogen, clotting factor VII, and von Willebrand factor.(6) Such changes would tend to prevent the formation of small blood clots that can block arteries in the heart, neck, and brain, the ultimate cause of many heart attacks and the most common kind of stroke.
Does alcohol cause these benefits?
People who drink in moderation are different from non-drinkers or heavy drinkers in ways that could influence health and disease. Part of a national 1985 health interview survey showed that moderate drinkers were more likely than non-drinkers or heavy drinkers to be at a healthy weight, to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night, and to exercise regularly.(7) Researchers have statistically accounted for such confounders, and they do not come close to accounting for the relationship between alcohol and heart disease. This, plus the clearly beneficial effects of alcohol on cardiovascular risk factors, makes a compelling case that alcohol itself, when used in moderation, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The most definitive way to investigate the effect of alcohol on cardiovascular disease would be with a large trial in which some volunteers were randomly assigned to have one or more alcoholic drinks a day and others had drinks that looked, tasted, and smelled like alcohol but were actually alcohol-free. Such a trial will probably never be done. Nevertheless, the connection between moderate drinking and cardiovascular disease almost certainly represents a cause-and-effect relationship.
Beyond the Heart
The benefits of moderate drinking aren't limited to the heart. In both the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, gallstones and type 2 diabetes were less likely to occur in moderate drinkers than in nondrinkers. (11-13)
The social and psychological benefits of alcohol can't be ignored. A drink before a meal can improve digestion or offer a soothing respite at the end of a stressful day; the occasional drink with friends can be a social tonic. These physical and psychic effects may contribute to health and wellbeing.
The Dark Side of Alcohol
If all drinkers limited themselves to a single drink a day, we probably wouldn't need as many cardiologists, liver specialists, mental health professionals, and substance abuse counselors. But not everyone who likes to drink alcohol stops at just one. While most people drink in moderation, some don't. Problem drinking affects not just the drinkers themselves, but may touch their families, friends, and communities. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: (1)
* 14 million Americans meet standard criteria for alcohol abuse or alcoholism
* Alcohol plays a role in 1 in 4 cases of violent crime
* More than 16,000 people die each year in automobile accidents in which alcohol was involved
* Alcohol abuse costs more than $180 billion dollars a year
On the personal level, heavy drinking can take a toll on the body. It can cause inflammation of the liver (alcoholic hepatitis) and lead to scarring of the liver (cirrhosis), a potentially fatal disease. Heavy drinking can increase blood pressure and damage heart muscle (cardiomyopathy). It has also been linked with several cancers, particularly those of the mouth, throat, esophagus, colon, and breast.
Even moderate drinking carries some risks. Alcohol can disrupt sleep. Its ability to cloud judgment is legendary. Alcohol interacts in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of medications, including acetaminophen, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, painkillers, and sedatives. It is also addictive, especially for people with a family history of alcoholism.
Alcohol Increases Risk of Developing Breast Cancer
Among women in the Nurses' Health Study, two or more drinks a day increased the chances of developing breast cancer by 20%-25%.(14, 15 ) This doesn't mean that 20% to 25% of women who have two drinks a day will get breast cancer. Instead, it is the difference between about 12 of every 100 women developing breast cancer during their lifetimes - the current average risk in the US - and 14 to 15 of every 100 women developing the disease. This modest increase would translate to significantly more women with breast cancer each year. Adequate daily intake of folic acid, at least 600 micrograms a day, can mitigate this increased risk (see Vitamin Connection).
Even moderate drinking carries some risks. Alcohol can disrupt sleep. Its ability to cloud judgment is legendary. Alcohol interacts in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of medications, including acetaminophen, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, painkillers, and sedatives. It is also addictive, especially for people with a family history of alcoholism.
Genes Play a Role
Twin, family, and adoption studies have firmly established that genetics plays an important role in determining an individual's preferences for alcohol and his or her likelihood for developing alcoholism. Alcoholism doesn't follow the simple rules of inheritance set out by Gregor Mendel. Instead, it is influenced by several genes that interact with each other and with environmental factors.(1)
There is also some evidence that genes influence how alcohol affects the cardiovascular system. An enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase helps metabolize alcohol. One variant of this enzyme, called alcohol dehydrogenase type 3 (ADH3), comes in two "flavors." One quickly breaks down alcohol, the other does it more slowly. Moderate drinkers who have two copies of the gene for the slow-acting enzyme are at much lower risk for cardiovascular disease than moderate drinkers who have two genes for the fast-acting enzyme.(16) Those with one gene for the slow-acting enzyme and one for the faster enzyme fell in between. It's possible that the fast-acting enzyme breaks down alcohol before it can have a beneficial effect on HDL and clotting factors.
Interestingly, these differences in the ADH3 gene do not influence the risk of heart disease among people who don't drink alcohol. This adds strong indirect evidence that alcohol itself reduces heart disease risk.
Shifting Benefits and Risks
The benefits and risks of moderate drinking change over a lifetime. In general, risks exceed benefits until middle age, when cardiovascular disease begins to account for increasingly large share of the burden of disease and death.
* For a pregnant woman and her unborn child, a recovering alcoholic, a person with liver disease, and people taking one or more medications that interact with alcohol, moderate drinking offers little benefit and potential risks.
* For a 30-year-old man, the increased risk of alcohol-related accidents outweighs the possible heart-related benefits of moderate alcohol consumption.
* For a 60-year-old man, a drink a day may offer protection against heart disease that is likely to outweigh potential harm (assuming he isn't prone to alcoholism).
* For a 60-year-old woman, the benefit/risk calculations are trickier. More than ten times as many women die each year from heart disease than breast cancer - more than 500,000 women a year from cardiovascular disease compared with 41,000 a year from breast cancer. However, studies show that women are far more afraid of developing breast cancer than heart disease, something that must be factored into the equation.
Balancing Act
Given the complexity of alcohol's effects on the body and the complexity of the people who drink it, blanket recommendations about alcohol are out of the question. Because each of us has unique personal and family histories, alcohol offers each person a different spectrum of benefits and risks. Whether or not to drink alcohol, especially for "medicinal purposes," requires careful balancing of these benefits and risks. Your health-care provider should be able to help you do this.
Your overall health and risks for alcohol-associated conditions should factor into the equation. If you are thin, physically active, don't smoke, eat a healthy diet, and have no family history of heart disease, drinking alcohol won't add much to decreasing your risk of CVD.
If you don't drink, there's no need to start. You can get similar benefits with exercise (beginning to exercise if you don't already or boosting the intensity and duration of your activity) or healthier eating. If you are a man with no history of alcoholism who is at moderate to high risk for heart disease, a daily alcoholic drink could reduce that risk. Moderate drinking might be especially beneficial if you have low HDL that just won't budge upward with diet and exercise. If you are a woman with no history of alcoholism who is at moderate to high risk for heart disease, the possible benefits of a daily drink must be balanced against the small increase in risk of breast cancer.
If you already drink alcohol or plan to begin, keep it moderate - no more than two drinks a day for men or one drink a day for women. And make sure you get plenty of folic acid, at least 600 micrograms a day.
Participants Duration Association with moderate consumption*
Kaiser Permanente cohort: 123,840 men and women aged 30+ 10 years 40% reduction in fatal myocardial infarction, 20% reduction in cardiovascular mortality; 80% increase in fatal hemorrhagic stroke (23)
Nurses' Health Study: 85,709 female nurses aged 34-59 12 years 17% lower risk of all-cause mortality; (24) an earlier report showed a 40% reduction in risk of CHD and 70% reduction in risk of ischemic stroke (25)
Physicians' Health Study: 22,071 male physicians aged 40-84 11 years 30-35% reduced risk of angina and myocardial infarction, 20-30% reduced risk of cardiovascular death (7, 26 )
American Cancer Society cohort: 489,626 men and women aged 30-104 9 years 30-40% reduced risk of cardiovascular death (27)
Eastern France cohort: 34,014 men and women 10-15 years 25-30% reduced risk of cardiovascular death (28)
Health Professionals Follow-up Study: 38,077 male health professionals aged 40-75 12 years 35% reduced risk of myocardial infarction (20)
* compared with non-drinkers
Table 1. Results of some large prospective studies of alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease.
Alcholol directly goes into the blood and make it little thiner, so heart needs less energy to pump the blood.
Alcohol given 7kcal/gm, which is almost equal to carbohydrate. but the reason, we can not take it more to have energy bcoz in ur brain, hypothalamus which control the nerve centre of the body, its efficiency gets down, and one is no more in real senses.
Wot ho! To get high, man!
When You're high,
You well-nigh imagine you're Up in the sky,
And cannot make out the pot from the pan!!
Pissing and kissing, hugging and mugging!
there are several aspects
1 adict
2 socialisation
3 health
to avoid personal responsiblity for the stupid things you do....it really wasn't me stripping at the party, Mr. Boss, I had a few drinks! :)