In what instance can drinking alcohol have positive outcome for people who are of the legal age and also have positive benefits to their health 

            After learning in class that alcohol is a legal drug that is addictive to many people who consume it. So my question is how consuming alcohol can be positive health benefit to people and their bodies is. To answer my question I found an article that explains that research has shown that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can benefit their health. This article states that “the American Heart Association recommends you limit yourself to no more than an average one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men.” The article also seems to mention that the healthier benefits of alcohol to consume are generally among wine, beer, and spirits. Researchers have found that alcohol has the positive effects on the body’s heart and blood vessels or overall the cardiovascular system. IN this article it mentions that drinking moderate alcohol can increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) which is good cholesterol to break down the extra cholesterol in the blood. This article presents many different health benefits for the human body of alcohol consumption that is consumed at a moderate rate. With the information presented in the above section of the article said that with alcohol being a factor to help with the cardiovascular system, that people who drink moderate amounts the alcohol intake can slightly lower a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. With all the positive factors of drinking moderate amounts of alcohol it can also lead to health problems as well. One of the health factors that can cause a problem is that heart failure could occur as alcohol consumption increases. In this article drinking alcohol could also increase your risk to host a cancer which include liver, stomach, breast, colon, and oral cancer. You really have to watch out for the amount of alcohol that an individual may consume because one of the more serious problems that could occur is a person could develop inflammation in the pancreas and the lining of the stomach, which then would lead to an increase in the risk of cirrhosis, which is a serious liver disorder. So when consuming alcohol watch just how much you consume that way you don’t go overboard. Alcohol is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. So from my research that was found in this article you can clearly see that drinking alcohol does have some benefits to a person’s health, when it’s consumed at a moderate amount. But you can see that there are also some serious risk you may have to encounter. So, you should always be mindful of the amount of alcohol that you drink that way it will be a health benefit and not just a risk factor to one’s life.

Samantha N D

http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2012/feb-03a.html