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Alcohol is a drug that slows down parts of your brain. Drinking alcohol can make you feel more relaxed. It can also make it harder to think clearly, make good decisions and do various tasks. Today alcohol is a very popular drink, as there are pre-made drinks that you can buy over the counter that do not taste like alcohol at all making them very easy to drink.

Symptoms after consuming too much alcohol

• Feel nervous and jumpy
• Have sleep problems
• Have shakes.
• Have seizures
• Have hallucinations
• Have blackouts (lose their memory)
• Slur their speech or have trouble walking
• Feel sleepy or lose consciousness
• Be more likely to have falls and other accidents

Harmful effects of Alcohol on your health: Alcohol presents a many problems for your body's proper functioning, like dehydration and deficiency of minerals and vitamins.

• Lungs: Alcohol lower resistance to infection. High amounts of alcohol may cause breathing to stop, then death.

• Liver: Chronic heavy drinking may cause alcoholic hepatitis (inflammation and destruction of liver cells) and then cirrhosis (irreversible lesions, scarring, and destruction of liver cells). Impairs the liver's ability to remove yellow pigment, and skin appears yellow (jaundice). Decreases production of blood-clotting factors; may cause uncontrolled bleeding. Liver accumulates fat which can cause liver failure ("alcoholic fatty liver"), coma and death.

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As you sip your red wine, do you know where it's color comes from? It's produced from a vast assortment of grape varietals ranging from grapes that are reddish, deep purple, and even a beautiful blue. Many people consider red wines "heavy" wines, but they are more accurately described as being "light-bodied" or "full-bodied." The body is the texture and the weight that you will feel in your mouth and on your tongue when you drink the wine. So lets dicuss the varieties of Red Wines available for you to enjoy!

Merlot: The classic Merlot grape originated from the Bordeaux region of France. It produces a soft, medium-bodied red wine with juicy fruit flavors. The softness of Merlot has made it an "introducing" wine for new red-wine drinkers. A range of fresh flavors such as plums, cherries, blueberries and blackberries mixed with black pepper tones, typically dominate this smooth red wine. Merlot is often used to blend with other varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. By blending Merlot with these wines, a distinct taste is produced for you to take pleasure in.

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With so many different types of sweet wines that you can pair up with a dessert, or sip on its own after dinner. Sweet wines range from the fresh and fruity to the syrupy and sticky - so how do you choose the right wine? The fresher, sweet styles are made from grapes that have been left on the vine for longer to ripen to higher sugar levels. You may be familiar with the word spatlese on such wines. It's German for 'late-harvested'. These wines are as sweet as really ripe, fresh fruit and go well with something like a juicy peach.

If the grapes are left on the vine for a little longer, they can be infected by a kind of mould (oh, is that what it is???) called botrytis, or 'noble rot', which shrivels the berries and makes for a sweeter wine. The two most common grape varieties are riesling and semillon. Botrytis-affected riesling tends to be very sweet but zesty, while Botrytis semillon are richer, softer and fuller-flavoured. The sweetest wines of all are the fortifieds- muscat, tokay and port - with the word 'liqueur' on the label.

So, now that you know all this you can enjoy your wine with dessert too! Hooray.

(Source: au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-homes-gardens)