Science says: "Wine before beer, you're not clear" – Neat For

Any professional drinker knows it's best to avoid mixing your liquor – and if you need it, order well. However, a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition just presented scientific evidence that mixing the type of hooch you drink really has no effect on the hangover.

"Everyone knows the saying" Beer before wine and you'll feel good … ", said Kai Hensel of Cambridge University." We thought there had to be something in it, how can we test it? "

Maximum warnings about "tactical consummation" exist in many cultures (and often in the form of rhymes). For example, the English prefer "raisin or grain, but never twain"; the Germans suggest 'Wein auf Bier, das rat' ich Dir – Bier au Wein, das lbad 'sein'; and the French warning "Beer on wine is venom, wine on beer is beautiful way".

Scientists led by Jöran Köchling, Berit Geis, Stefan Wirth and Hensel have sought to generate data to demystify this popular hangover view. To this end, they recruited 90 test subjects for "a cross-over, randomized, controlled, multi-pair paired triplet trial".

Translated into scientific language, this means that the subjects have been divided into three groups. The first group drank about two and a half liters of beer (offered by Carlsberg), then four large glbades of wine. The second group drank the same alcohol, but in the reverse order. Finally, the third control group exclusively drank beer.

A week later, the test subjects came back and exchanged their order. Thus, the control group drank only wine, the group of the first beer drank wine first, and so on.

NOTE: If that sounds good enough for you to drink a drink, that's a bit of a goal. We are talking about a hangover study after all! However, it is worth mentioning that the research team took care not to introduce the light drinkers' experience, nor to monitor the health of their subjects throughout the process.

Anyway, the day after their consumption, each participant was asked to evaluate himself, wait for him: "Scale of the acute hangover". Remember that this hangover ranking from 0 to 56 is quite subjective, because a hangover can not really be made worse. For the purposes of the study, subjects were asked to relay common indicators such as vomiting, fatigue and headaches.

When all the results were compiled, there was no significant differentiation between hangover between different groups. Science concluded that you will feel bad the next day, no matter what order you drink.

"The truth is that drinking too much of any alcoholic drink is likely to cause a hangover," said Jöran Köchling of the University of Witten / Herdecke in Germany. "The only reliable way to predict how unhappy you will be the next day is if you feel drunk and sick. We should all pay attention to these red flags when we drink. "