About half of fatal highway accidents are alcohol-related. Eating while drinking slows the absorption of alcohol in the body. Eating before and while drinking slows down the passage of alcohol from the stomach to the small intestine. It takes about as many hours as the number of beers drunk for the liver to completely burn up the alcohol ingested. Alcohol is metabolized by the liver at the rate of one drink an hour.
Few women become alcoholics.
Alcohol is considered a stimulant. To prevent a hangover, one should sip one's drink slowly, eat while drinking, have no more than one drink an hour, and not over-drink one's limit. Alcohol consumption improves sexual performance. A person cannot become an alcoholic by just drinking beer. Drinking milk before alcohol slows down the absorption of alcohol into the body because it coats the stomach.