Thursday, 1 January 2009

New Year Veisalgia

I over indulged at the New Year festivities last night. You know how it is when someone offers you that one last drink. You know that you've had enough but it seems like a snub not to accept when someone offers to buy you a drink (I know – just say no). You know that you are going to regret the decision the next morning.

One of the pre-Christmas-party stories running in the press recently was that doctors Rachel Vreeman and Aaron Carroll from the Indiana School of Medicine have published their research findings in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal. Their conclusion, from controlled random double-blind trials is that none of the alleged cures for a hangover work. The truth appears to be that whatever you are doing to deal with the hangover that you are suffering with this morning, in a few hours the headache will subside. When it does, don't start claiming it was all of those artichokes, bananas and flat coke you have consumed (substitute your own pet theory) that helped you get better.

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