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Supplemental Slides to Restrict Access to Alcohol

Learn about alcohol, its health benefits, risks, and effects on the body. Understand blood alcohol concentration stages and the popularity of alcopop beverages among youth and young women.

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Supplemental Slides to Restrict Access to Alcohol

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  1. Supplemental Slides to Restrict Access to Alcohol

  2. What is alcohol? • An intoxicating ingredient found in beer, wine, toddy and other liquor. • Produced by the fermentation of yeast, sugars and starches. • A depressant

  3. Toddy or Tuba or Palm Wine

  4. Alcohol Health Benefits • Moderate drinking • One drink a day for women • Two drinks for men • May have health benefits • Lowers risk of heart disease • Improve digestion • Gallstones and type 2 diabetes were less likely to occur than in non-drinkers

  5. Dark Side of Alcohol • Risks: • Disrupts sleep • Cloudy judgment • Interacts with medications • Addictive • Affects every organ in the body

  6. Stages of Blood Alcohol Concentration

  7. Alcopop Flavored alcohol beverages (fruit flavored and/or carbonated) Smirnoff Ice Mike’s Hard Lemonade Bacardi Breezers Four Loko Appeal to youth and young women Closely resemble soda or energy drinks Sweetness and flavoring hide the taste of alcohol 5-12% alcohol, more than most beers

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