apps that track your alcohol consumption

1. Alba Salgueiro
ALCOHOL TRACKER APP

2. HOW DOES IT WORK?
Technologies this days are amazing, Did you know that you can download an app to
control how much alcohol do you consume?
-It tells you how much you can consume.
-It tells you when you need to stop.
-It helps people who struggle with alcohol abuse.
-This could prevent millions of deaths from alcohol use disorders.

3. Advantages Disadvantages
-It will help you to drink just what you need if
you are driving.
-There will be less car accidents.
-There will be less deaths.
-It’s like having your therapist with you.
-Maybe it won’t work
-It could be highly unreliable
-It may have insignificant benefits for patients
dealing with alcoholism.
-The majority of alcohol related apps are
meant for entertainment instead of helping
users to make a healthier decision.

4. DO WE REALLY CONSUME THAT MUCH?
Reasons: it changes your mood, low self-esteem, relaxing, to socialize , because we like
how it tastes… there’s a ton of reasons why we consume alcohol whether they are bad
or good.
Recent researches had proved that almost the 30% of the population of USA never
touches alcohol, another 30% just on special occasions and the rest, they all consume a
good amount of alcohol per week.

5. ALCOHOL EFFECTS ON THE BODY
Alcohol can really affect us in a bad way.
• Brain: It interferes with the brain’s communication pathways. It’s harder to think
clearly and move with coordination.
• Heart: It causes high blood pressure and the stretching and dropping of the heart
muscle.
• Pancreas: It can cause pancreatitis a dangerous inflammation, that prevents proper
digestion.
• Cancer: It can increase your risk of developing certain cancers.

6. APPS FOR SMARTPHONES
• For Iphone:
-Intellidrink: You can do it with a friend it allows you to notify yourself when you have
reached a specific BAC level.
*BAC: Blood Alcohol Content.
- BAC Alcohol Calculator: It allows users to customize their drinks to match what they
are actually drinking.
-R-U-Buzzed: It allows users to enter their weight, gender, hours spent drinking antd
the amount of alcohol consumed If you are not sober enough to drive it will say “You are
buzzed”.

7. • For Android:
-ALCulator : It uses your gender and weight to determine your approximate BAC
level based on the drinks you’ve plugged into the app.
-AlcoDroid Alcohol Tracker: It will plot your BAC development and ping when you go
back under the legal limit.
-Alcohol Calculator: you have to tap when you start drinking and tap again when you
have finished, to make your results more accurate.

8. MOST CONSUMED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
• Beer.
• Rum and Coke.
• Vodka.
• Tequila.
• Wine.
• Margarita.

9. VIDEOS
• medicalxpress.com/news/2015-07-smartphoneapp-drinkers-dailyweekly.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iR9SPOSX4W