An ad featuring a Mountain Dew-clad high schooler. Pepsi has used targeted marketing to cultivate a younger generation of Mountain Dew lovers. Tying the drink to NASCAR drivers, indie bands and extreme sports competitions helps brand Mountain Dew as the soda for people who do their own thing and donât care what others think. âIâm sure Mountain Dew is alienating to a part of the population of the U.S., and weâre totally fine with that,â said Lyons, Mountain Dew's marketing VP.
In simple terms, alcohol ' thins your blood' and helps prevent the build up of clots and bad LDL cholesterol in your arteries. Alcohol favourably alters the balance of fats or lipids in the blood, by stimulating the liver to produce the âgoodâ high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL).
Blood alcohol concentration and effects. Alcohol is fairly quickly absorbed into the bloodstream. Onset of alcohol effects takes about 10 minutes and peak at about 40-60 minutes after consumption. The amount of alcohol in your blood is called your âblood alcohol concentrationâ, or, BAC. Generally, acute effects of alcohol last for as long as you continue drinking.