No headaches on New Year’s Day

Tips | Mensvita | Dezember 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM

Soon, the champagne corks will be popping again. On New Year’s Eve vast quantities of alcoholic beverages such as champagne, red and white wine, hard lemonade, beer, and punches are drunk. Many New Year’s celebration drinks are high in sugar, are carbonated, or served hot which increases alcohol intake. The result the next day: headache, nausea, vomiting, and the typical feeling of on ‘fire’.

The culprit
Alcohol consumption leads to excess electrolyte excretion which causes dehydration. With dehydration, headaches are inevitable. Also responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which during the metabolism process is an intermediate form of alcohol. Sugar inhibits the metabolic breakdown of alcohol, which is why we suffer the next day when consuming too much liquor, cocktails, and special punch.

Tips and Tricks
Here are a few little tips to help prevent hangovers from occurring:

• Eat a hearty meal and consume non alcoholic beverages before consuming alcohol

• Drink a non alcoholic drink such as water with each alcoholic drink consumed
• Eat some salty snacks to aid against the loss of electrolytes
• Stay away from cheap alcohols that may contain ‘rotgut’ liquor
• Prefer lighter alcohols like vodka over darker alcohols such as whiskey
• After drinking, drink water or a recovery drink such as water plus magnesium, vitamin C, aspirin, isotonic drinks, or Dinkula, an enzyme lactic acid fermented beverage, mineral and vitamin drained memory again.

If these tips don’t help, the next time you celebrate you should just drink less. That will certainly help.