Under Aged Drinking

Lately a lot of bars throughout the country are starting to check IDs before people are allowed to enter because of the rising amount of under-aged drinkers. You may be asking why, well I believe that there are many reasons, but I believe that there are three main reasons that I will focus on. One of them is the fact that the body may not be ready by that age to drink and the organs in the body may need a little more time to develop fully. It may not only affect the organs in the body, but it could also affect the brain. Alcohol at such a young age almost puts the brain in a “resting” mode, which is terrible for children that are going through school and studying, which requires them to always be thinking. Finally, the most important fact is addiction. When you start drinking at a young age, your body starts to grow accustomed to having beer or wine. When you grow up, you body will end up always wanting it.

When we grow up, our body grows up with us. At a young age the organs in our body are not fully developed, which causes them not to be able to handle anything we throw at them. We have to wait for them to fully develop to be able to handle alcohol. The reason why is because when you drink alcohol, the body breaks it down and turns it into a dangerous material called acetaldehyde which can damage your DNA

Although alcohol affects our organs, it also affects our brain. When growing up we of coarse go through school, which will always require our focus and attention. What alcohol does is it takes away our ability to focus and think. It is scientifically proven that our learning ability declines progressively as we age. Therefore to miss the opportunity to learn at a young age will become a permanent loss which cannot be replaced in the future.

The thing that applies to everything in life applies to alcohol the most, addiction. How addiction for alcohol works is that after we try it for the first time, we will start to feel relaxed. The next opportunity you get to drink alcohol you will accept because you thought it felt nice. And then after that it will happen again, and it will end up just repeating itself until it becomes a daily habit. When this happens for alcohol, its terrible because the contents in alcohol have the ability to damage our body, and our brain.

There are so many consequences for under age drinking. You could damage your internal organs such as your liver, your lungs, or possibly your heart. You miss the opportunity to learn and study. And finally you sometimes can just easily get addicted. This shows that when you do things that your body isn’t ready for, your body will start to break down, and it could ruin your life.

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