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Alcohol consumption is dangerous. Alcohol goes to the head as soon as you start drinking it. And it begins to cause damage sooner than you ever thought.





Alcohol reaches brain and begins damaging it 6 minutes after you drink it, all types of alcohol - not only champagne. Male and female brains react in the same way even though women are more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol. Scientists scanned the brains of 15 people drinking alcohol through a straw. Each of the people drank two pints of beer and three glasses of wine. Just after a couple of minutes their brains switched to working on sugars from alcohol, not those taken from food. And those compounds which protect the brain's cells decrease. Brain scans the following day revealed that changes can be reversed in healthy adults but permanent alcohol consumption shrinks the brain. The more alcohol you drink, the more damage to the brain.


Added by: mary not connected with health care system
Added on: 2009-06-17 15:50:45 , Updated: 2009-06-17 15:52:27
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