“Alcohol is harmful as beverages.”-Justify the statement. - Vidyadip

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“Alcohol is harmful as beverages.”-Justify the statement.

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Answer

When a large quantity of ethanol is consumed, it tends to slow down metabolic processes.
Moreover, it depresses the Central Nervous System $(CNS)$.
This results in lack of coordination, mental confusion, drowsiness, lowering of the normal inhibitors and finally individual becomes unconscious and lethargic.
The individual may feel relaxed but does not realised that his sense of judgement, sense of timing and muscular coordination have been seriously impaired.
Instead of ethanol, intake of methanol in very small quantities can cause death; because methanol is oxidised to methanal in liver.
Methanal reacts rapidly with the components of cells and coagulates the protoplasm.
Methanol also affects the optic nerve and causes blindness.
Thus, consumption of alcohol is dangerous to living beings.

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