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Alcohol is used as a social lubricant, maybe more so as holiday festivities approach. But drinking carries health and other risks. Here are five tips to make it safer.
In fact, drinking alcohol in the cold lowers your core temperature. Hypothermia can set in if your body drops below 95 degrees. RELATED: Hot chocolate recipes for those cold winter nights
We don’t have enough data to know what a “safe” level of drinking really is, Litton says. And emerging research questions whether even a drink a day is safe “when we’re seeing some ...
Physical activity in extremely hot weather should be avoided. If a person starts to experience over heating, and symptoms of heat syncope, they should move or be moved to a shaded or cool area. It is also recommended to avoid alcoholic beverages in hot weather, because they cause dehydration which may worsen symptoms.
Iceland: Advise that pregnant women abstain from alcohol during pregnancy because no safe consumption level exists. [27] Israel: Women should avoid consuming alcohol before and during pregnancy [27] [45] The Netherlands: Abstinence [27] New Zealand: "Women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant should avoid drinking alcohol." [46]
Risk is greater in young people due to binge drinking, which may result in violence or accidents. [3] About 88,000 deaths in the United States are estimated to be due to alcohol each year. [9] Alcoholism reduces a person's life expectancy by around ten years [10] and excessive alcohol use is the third leading cause of early death in the United ...
But recent studies have found that even low levels of drinking may be harmful, and the World Health Organization has said that “no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.”
Some effects of alcohol intoxication, such as euphoria and lowered social inhibition, are central to alcohol's desirability. [21] As drinking increases, people become sleepy or fall into a stupor. At very high blood alcohol concentrations, for example above 0.3%, the respiratory system becomes depressed and the person may stop breathing. [22]