Excess alcohol can increase your risk of:

• Liver disease
• High blood pressure
• High blood fats (triglycerides)
• Heart failure
• Stroke
• Fetal alcohol syndrome (if you’re pregnant)
• Certain cancers
• Injury, violence, and death

Heavy drinking takes a toll on the liver, and can lead to a variety of problems and liver

Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce toxic substances that can eventually lead to pancreatitis, a dangerous inflammation and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that prevents proper digestion.

Drinking too much can weaken your immune system, making your body a much easier target for disease.

Drinking too much alcohol can increase your risk of developing certain cancers, including cancers of the:

• Mouth
• Esophagus
• Throat
• Liver
• Breast

Drinking too much – on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your health.

Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior, and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.

Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

Okay, smoking is bad; you shouldn’t smoke. And alcohol is bad; you shouldn’t drink alcohol. And as for drugs, well, drugs are bad; you shouldn’t do drugs. That’s about wraps it up. – Mr. Mackey

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.