RJA #3a: Research Topic Exploration

My first direction in researching about the effects of alcohol was in Google Scholar and Delicious bookmarks. Half of the information I encountered were common knowledge such as, excessive high intake of alcohol will cause alcohol poisoning which leads to interfering with nerves in the body resulting in death through lack of respiration. The other half of the information about the effects of alcohol however, were much more subtle; ethanol (contained in alcohol) decreases the amount of Vitamin A inside the body and cease repair of DNA.