Yes, it has already happened to you at Christmas that after drinking alcohol more than necessary you experience a horrible hangover; we left for this New Year’s Eve nine tricks that can help you drink alcohol, without suffering the annoying and unwanted hangover.
Yes ok avoiding alcohol intake is the best resource To prevent a hangover, it is clear that even if it is to toast, many of us are ingesting small amounts of alcohol on these dates, still being able to experience headaches and discomfort if we are not used to its consumption.
That’s why we left nine tricks that can help you avoid a hangover on this New Year’s Eve:
Avoid drinking on an empty stomach
It’s clear that on an empty stomach alcohol is metabolized very quickly and it reaches the bloodstream in a short time, producing toxic substances that are responsible for the headaches typical of a hangover.
In the same way, if we are very hungry because we have spent long hours without eating, we can drink larger amountswhich of course favors the development of a hangover.
Drink consciously, recording the number of drinks ingested
In order not to consume alcohol in an uncontrolled way, we recommend carrying out a Conscious intake and not lose mental record of the amount of glasses that we have consumed.
This favor a moderate intake and therefore, it will help reduce the amounts of alcohol consumed to prevent that annoying hangover.
drink as slowly as possible
To better tolerate alcohol intake by our body, we recommend drink slowly reducing the rate at which ethanol enters the body.
For this, we recommend leaving the glass on the table between one drink and another, as well as eating food, talking or doing other activities without losing control about alcohol consumption.
Choose thin and long glasses for your intake
To drink less quantity, we can use glasses or glasses of reduced capacity that will make us count equal portions, but we will reduce the amount of alcohol without realizing it.
For it, we recommend glasses or thin and long glasses that with a smaller capacity they can help us reduce alcohol intake almost unconsciously, just as small plates do with solid foods.
Avoid mixing alcoholic beverages or drinking sugary cocktails
The mix of alcoholic drinks may encourage higher ethanol consumption as well as, it can promote great hangovers by encouraging the entry into the body of substances derived from distillation or the so-called congeners, which have a toxic effect on our body.
On the other hand, with the preparation of cocktails we can cause discomfort typical of hangovers by enter in addition to a high alcohol content, an appreciable amount of sugars that favor gastrointestinal irritation and glucose, water and electrolyte imbalances in our body.
Choose low-alcohol drinks
It is clear that with greater amounts of ethanol, the greater the chances of suffering hangovers and undesirable consequences in our body. That is why, to prevent discomfort, we recommend choose low-alcohol drinks.
Thus, among the lighter alternatives or with lower proportions of alcohol, we find, for example, the wine, the beer wave cider.
Combine your intake with water or ice
If we choose to drink alcohol throughout the entire New Year’s Eve dinner and after it, we advise reducing the proportion of ethanol that enters the body alternating your intake with water or combining drinks with water or ice.
Although this is not pleasant for the most frequent consumers of alcoholic beverages, it is highly recommended. to prevent excess ethanol in the body and thus reduce or prevent hangovers.
Avoid bubbly drinks as well as dark or distilled ones
Among the alcoholic beverages that produce the worst hangovers are those dark or distilled in which a large number of congeners are present, which are derived from the distillation of ethanol and have a toxic effect on our body that may be responsible for the hangover.
At the same time, sparkling wines, champagne or other bubbly, which have carbon dioxide inside, they accelerate the metabolization of alcohol and therefore promote the development of a hangover by facilitating the arrival of toxic substances into the bloodstream.
Eat foods that slow gastric emptying
In addition to avoiding the consumption of alcoholic beverages on an empty stomach, there are many foods such as dairy products, fiber or polysaccharides that delay digestion and therefore prevent ethanol from reaching the blood quickly.
For this reason, foods that delay gastric emptying they will be the most favorable to avoid the dreaded hangovers.
Thus, we advise the intake of dairy foods or whole grains, fruits and vegetables as well as rice, corn, potatoes and derivatives; the consumption of khaki which has been shown to reduce the absorption and metabolism of alcohol in our body, which can certainly help prevent a hangover.
These are nine tips that can help you prevent hangovers on New Year’s Eve, and start the year without headaches.
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