• Alcohol provides damaging effects on the brain even after a few sips.

• Depending on the amount of alcohol consumed varies with the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers and has both beneficial and detrimental effects on diabetes and ischemic cardiovascular diseases.

• Alcohol can cause cancer in about six different places in your body. The mouth, the throat (pharynx), the voice box (larynx), the esophagus, the liver, colon, rectum and in the breast.

• Alcohol is considered a poisonous chemical, cluding that alcohol intake can have devastating effects on the body, in particular, alcohol has a significant negative  effect on the nerves and muscle cells.

• Alcohol can  have a effect of memory loss, seizures, blackouts, incoordination, dehydration, and possibly death. Long term abuse can hurt the nervous system, liver, and other organs. It could also alter levels of certain nutrition in your body.

• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome – found chronic in alcoholics, results from  thiamine deficiency, from severe loss of  thiamine deficiency (vitamin B)