How can alcohol effect your health?

Answer 1

It causes your liver to fight harder in cleaning your system and can lead to liver damage which can be fatal.

The liver metabolizes alcohol into acetate, which is then burned by the body for energy in place of fat. This causes additional fat to be deposited at various locations in the body, including the liver, leading eventually to a condition called "fatty liver." Over time, this progresses to cirrhosis of the liver, which causes portions of the organ to die.

Alcohol affects the body in many other ways, however. Every organ system is affected, often due to direct contact or by the induced malfunctioning of the liver. Apart from digestive problems, this can lead to arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), pancreatitis, can aggravate any tendency toward Diabetes, and cause nerve damage. Those things, of course, are in addition to the mental problems, accidents, destroyed relationships and other by-products of Alcoholism.

In short, alcohol is a far more deadly drug than most of the illegal drugs out there. Were it not so firmly entrenched in our society (and so easy to make -- and make money on) it would no doubt be classed along with heroin and cocaine as a Schedule I drug.