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Having Alcohol at Your Party
There are only two ways that alcohol can be consumed by guests at your event or party. You can allow guests to bring their own alcohol (commonly referred to as BYOB) or you can purchase the alcohol and serve it to guests. It is important to remember that you cannot sell alcohol unless you have a state liquor license. Serving alcohol to your guests is usually safer than BYOB, because you can control how fast they consume their alcohol.
When serving alcohol, your servers should know the standard sizes of drinks so they can avoid from over-serving. Many drinkers pace their drinking by counting the drinks they consume. By over-serving, you might cause someone to become more intoxicated than they planned to be at your event. To have a better idea of what a standard drink is, use the following as guides:
If you're serving alcohol at your event, use these as guides. By serving standard drinks, only, you will help your guests keep accurate track of how much alcohol they’ve had and lower the chances of someone at your party becoming intoxicated.
Did You Know?
Alcohol can affect your workout?
Alcohol Cancels Out Gains from Your Workout
Consuming alcohol after a workout, practice, or game, will cancel out any physiological gains you may have received from such activities. Long term alcohol use can prevent protein synthesis and even short term use can prevent muscle growth.
Alcohol Use Prevents Muscle Recovery
In order to build bigger and stronger muscles, our bodies need sleep after workouts to repair themselves. Alcohol use affects our sleep cycles, causing the secretion of the hormone HGH or “human growth hormone” to be lowered by as much as 70 percent! HGH is part of the body’s muscle growing and repair process. Also, alcohol triggers the production of a substance in the liver that is toxic to testosterone, which is essential for the recovery and build-up of muscles.
Alcohol Depletes Your Source of Energy
Alcohol prevents the production of ATP, which is the energy fuel our bodies use to run on, and is necessary for our muscles to contract. This causes a loss of energy and endurance.
Adapted from the brochure ‘Men and Alcohol’, developed by Missouri Partners in Prevention.
Alcohol can affect your workout?
Alcohol Cancels Out Gains from Your Workout
Consuming alcohol after a workout, practice, or game, will cancel out any physiological gains you may have received from such activities. Long term alcohol use can prevent protein synthesis and even short term use can prevent muscle growth.
Alcohol Use Prevents Muscle Recovery
In order to build bigger and stronger muscles, our bodies need sleep after workouts to repair themselves. Alcohol use affects our sleep cycles, causing the secretion of the hormone HGH or “human growth hormone” to be lowered by as much as 70 percent! HGH is part of the body’s muscle growing and repair process. Also, alcohol triggers the production of a substance in the liver that is toxic to testosterone, which is essential for the recovery and build-up of muscles.
Alcohol Depletes Your Source of Energy
Alcohol prevents the production of ATP, which is the energy fuel our bodies use to run on, and is necessary for our muscles to contract. This causes a loss of energy and endurance.
Adapted from the brochure ‘Men and Alcohol’, developed by Missouri Partners in Prevention.
To find out more facts about alcohol, including new kinds of alcohol products you may see at your event, and how you can avoid underage or intoxicated drinking with these products, please click here.