The only way to avoid hangover is to drink less

[Night Hunter]

 

 

 

Whether you've ever been drunk or not, you may be familiar with the concept of the hangover.

 

Those who have them look awful, behave like a sloth with a wart and drink gallons of water in an attempt to return to their more pleasant selves.

 

There have been many tales told of how to prevent hangover. Scientists have often weighed in -- the latest idea is that the best preventative measure is to drink pear juice. Beforehand, that is.

 

Now a new study will relieve you of all your antidotes and hairs of the dog. For it concluded that the only way to prevent a hangover is to not drink so much.

 

As the BBC reports, scientists from the Netherlands and Canada examined hungover students in their respective countries. You might observe that there are rarely any other kind first thing in the morning, so they must have had plenty of potential respondents.

 

Still, the scientists found that among the 824 Dutch students they talked to, 54 percent did the equivalent of a late-night Jack-In-The-Box, Taco Bell or early morning fry-up in the hope of stemming a hangover's effects. Some 66 percent tried the drink-a-lot-of-water-before-going-to-bed tactic.

 

They still felt largely as awful as those who had merely flopped into bed sloshed, still with their clothes on and drooled through the night.

 

Similar questions were posed to 789 Canadian students. The conclusion again was those who had the worst hangovers were simply those who had drunk more than they should have.

 

Dr. Joris Verster of Utrecht University in the Netherlands told the BBC: "Drinking water may help against thirst and a dry mouth, but it will not take away the misery, the headache and the nausea."

 

The research is to be presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology conference in Amsterdam this weekend.

 

 

Part of the problem with hangovers is that no one really knows what causes them. It isn't, as is often thought, dehydration. Dr. Verster told the BBC: "We know the immune system is involved, but before we know what causes it, it's very unlikely we'll find an effective cure."

 

Perhaps it's just the way the world works. For every pleasure, there is a certain fee that must be paid to Karmic HQ. Sometimes, the fee is steep. In the case of drinking, the fee seems to enjoy a justice-laden form of surge pricing.

 

Source http://www.cnet.com/

[SiD]

Holy shit. That headline.

 

 

Seriously though, who the hell funds this shit. Common sense dude...

[ancientmule]

 

Holy shit. That headline.



Seriously though, who the hell funds this shit. Common sense dude...

 

 

CHEERS MATE!

[Raskin]

So they spent all this time and money to come up with this obvious conclusion...lol

[Aniky]

Holy shit. That headline.

 

 

Seriously though, who the hell funds this shit. Common sense dude...

 

 

ahahah f***ing exact same thing, like u dont say hahahah..

 

seriously it doesn't take a genious to realize that obviously to not have hangover u should drink less, no world science there hahah.

[Hecken]

[RedBaird]

It was not a "double-blind" study.  In fact, the subjects reported both their dosages and their subjective results.  How many of the drunken students did do the anti-hangover regimens the night before and how many just thought they remembered doing it?  I wonder what subjective scale of misery the students had to employ to gauge their hangoverishnesses ©?

 

They will obviously have to redesign the study and do it all over again.  I am sure that the students will all volunteer again.

[excedo]

I never ever have hangovers, the only first 30 min after waking up little bit dizzy.

[Dest!Ny]

I never ever have hangovers, the only first 30 min after waking up little bit dizzy.

 

pretty much the same here, usually wake up early in hte morning feeling a lil shitty, and then go to sleep till 12am-1pm and its gone

[Reptile*]

How to avoid hangover is to drink some more straight into morning.

 

Have no hangovers either.