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• Alcohol provides calories, is metabolized throughout the body, and produces physiological effects.
• Nutritional content and calorie amounts vary among alcoholic beverages.
• Distilled spirits contain exceptionally few nutrients.
• Beer and wine provide some nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and beneficial plant chemicals.
• A typical beer has about 150 kilocalories, wine about 80, and an ounce of hard liquor about 65.
• Ethanol is absorbed, circulated, metabolized, and excreted by the body.
• Up to 5% of ingested ethanol is directly absorbed and metabolized by gastrointestinal cells.
• Up to 100% of the remaining ethanol travels through the circulation.
• The lungs and kidneys excrete about 2% to 10% of circulating ethanol.
• Blood tests are more accurate for measuring alcohol levels because much of the ethanol circulates in the blood.
• Alcohol consumption can cause frequent trips to the restroom and dehydration.
• The more alcohol a person drinks, the more frequent the trips to the restroom become.
• Dehydration affects every cell, including brain cells.
• This dehydration contributes to the so-called morning hangover.
• Acetaminophen should not be taken with alcohol.
• Alcohol metabolism activates an enzyme that transforms acetaminophen into a toxic metabolite.
• The toxic metabolite can cause liver inflammation and damage.
• Liver damage may not be irreversible.
• Water with electrolytes or sports drinks can help rehydrate the body's cells.
• Alcohol is a volatile, flammable organic substance that can be converted to a gas.
• The lungs exhale alcohol as a gas.
• The more alcohol consumed, the stronger the smell of alcohol on a person's breath.
• Breathalyzer tests measure exhaled alcohol levels to determine the state of inebriation.