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Alcohol and Health Two Works Cited and Two Works Consulted Alcohol has a tremendous negative impact on the body. Any quantity of alcohol that is ingested, no matter how little, may cause harm to the body and will certainly never provide any benefit. At one time, it was widely believed that alcohol was useful as a medicine and it was recommended for warming the body, helping the heart, and resuscitating those who have fainted or who are in a state of shock. Extensive research by scientists and physicians has proven that alcohol should never be utilized as a medicine. Unfortunately, alcohol brings on the risk of many diseases. "Recent evidence indicates that a wide variety of diseased conditions are brought about by a substance that coats the body's red cells, causing them to adhere to one another in clumps. These clumps, sometimes called 'sludge,' can be created by the ingestion of alcohol"(Burgess,p.130). Alcohol has a disastrous affect on all of the body's organs, the main ...