4. Weight Gain
This doesn’t happen because alcohol is particularly fattening, although many forms of alcohol are definitely not recommended for those who are trying to lose weight. This risk has more to do with how alcohol can influence your behavior and one thing it can surely do is make you want to eat. Drinking alcohol can boost the production of something called galanin – a neurotransmitter that can increase your appetite for not-so-healthy foods, particularly those containing a lot of fat.