How Does Alcohol Affect Health? PDF
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This document discusses the impacts of alcohol on health, including short-term and long-term effects. It examines the link between alcohol and increased susceptibility to communicable diseases, and how it can lead to severe conditions such as cirrhosis. Additionally, the document highlights the negative impact alcohol use can have on pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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How does alcohol affect Saturday 4 Ja nuary 2025 health? 1 What three diseases does smoking Lung disease, cardiovascular increase the risk of? disease and ca...
How does alcohol affect Saturday 4 Ja nuary 2025 health? 1 What three diseases does smoking Lung disease, cardiovascular increase the risk of? disease and cancer 2 Causes fatty material to in How does smoking increase your arteries reducing blood flow and risk of heart attacks? oxygen supply to heart cells 3 Causes DNA to mutate, so cells How can smoking cause cancer? multiply rapidly forming a 4 What three factors are needed for tumour Physical, mental and social well “good health?” being 5 Does poor health effect our chances Poor health makes us more of catching an infectious disease? likely to suffer infectious diseases CHALLENGE: Describe the structure of the lungs and their function Prior Today Leads to Knowledge Learning Intention: Learning Intention: How does alcohol affect health Describe short Explain the risks to an Recall aspects of term and long unborn child when good health term affects on drinking the brain Alcohol, cirrhosis, placenta Key word Cirrhosi Cirrhosis is a The damage caused by s condition in which cirrhosis can't be reversed and your liver is scarred can eventually stop the liver and permanently functioning. This is called liver damaged failure. Cirrhosis can be fatal if the liver fails Show me…… 1) Cirrhosis is when your liver and kidneys are damaged 2) Liver damage is called cirrhosis 3) Cirrhosis can be reversed Activating prior knowledge: Activation & check of prior knowledge: What effect can factors like high levels of stress and low levels of social support have 1) Cause communicable diseases 2) Can cause genetic diseases 3) Makes you more likely to suffer 4) Makes you more likely to get from communicable diseases genetic diseases Excessive alcohol use negatively impacts peoples physical, mental and social health and makes them more likely to suffer from communicable diseases. Excessive alcohol use has a major effect on an individual’s health and treating smokers is a large cost to the NHS (about 3 billion a year). Excessive alcohol use can have a negative effect on families and local communities £3 billion a year How does alcohol affect health? The statements are about drinking alcohol. Excessive alcohol use can damage families and friendships TRU Drinking alcohol in moderation is very bad for your E FAL health Injury and disease from alcohol misuse cost the SE TRU NHS billions of pounds a year Excessive alcohol use only ever effects the health E FAL of the person drinking Alcohol misuse can affect an individual's mental SE TRU health E CHALLENGE: Re-write any false statements to make them true. Liver: organ that processes alcohol Alcohol is also the cause of a disease called cirrhosis This is a disease caused by alcohol scarring the liver until it stops working. This disease slowly kills the person. Cirrhosis Link for video Phil drank lots of alcohol over many years. Why might some drinkers not be aware they are drinking to excess? 1) There are no guidelines on how 2) The risks of alcohol use are not much alcohol is excessive well understood 3) People compare themselves to 4) All drinkers are aware of the peers who may be heavy drinkers risks slows reaction time causes brain shrinkage causes difficulty leads to memory problems walking leads to psychiatric can impair memory problems causes slurred speech may result in the patient causes changes in requiring long-term care sleep patterns and mood, including increased anxiety and depression Short term long term Short term effect on Long term effect on Slows reaction time brain brain Slows reaction Brain shrinkage Brain shrinkage time Memory loss Memory loss Slurred speech Slurred speech Psychiatric problems Changes sleep pattern Changes sleep and mood pattern and mood Psychiatric problems CHALLENGE: Why is it illegal to drink alcohol and drive a motor vehicle? Alcohol can pass from the mother into the unborn child across an organ called the placenta. This can reduce the baby's growth and in extreme cases Placenta cause foetal alcohol syndrome which means the child will How does alcohol affect health? The statements are about the effect of drinking alcohol. Excessive drinking can cause cirrhosis of the stomach FAL Drinking only has short term effects SE FAL Drinking excessive alcohol will damage the brain SE TRU making it less effective Heavy drinking can cause mental illness as well as E TRU physical illness Alcohol cannot pass through the placenta into an E FAL unborn child SE CHALLENGE: Explain why any false statements are incorrect How does alcohol affect health? Some young people discuss the impact of alcohol on society. 1. Who do you agree with? 2. Who doAmelia you disagree with, and why? 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Excessive alcohol use _________ communities. your chances of suffering from (Moderate / Excessive) alcohol use communicable diseases. negatively impacts peoples physical, 3. Cirrhosis What liver disease can alcoholism mental and social health and makes them cause? (more / less) likely to suffer from communicable diseases. Alcohol also Memory 4. What lossshort-term are the and blurred effects of damages our (liver / stomach) causing a vision on the brain? alcohol disease called cirrhosis which can be fatal. Alcohol also effects our brain. In the (short 5. Brain shrinkage What are the long-term effects of / long) term this causes memory loss and alcohol on the brain? blurred vision. In the (short / long) term it Reduce growth, cause learning can cause brain shrinkage. 6. difficulties How can alcohol effect an unborn Drinking whilstExplain CHALLENGE: pregnant howcan affectpublic funding babies? over alcohol could save the health campaigns Independent Practice