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When drinking, everyone has a law that he firmly believes, "If you don't drink white wine or beer, don't mix them, or you will get drunk easily". Mixed drinking is easy to get drunk, which existed in ancient China. In Qing Louis in the Northern Song Dynasty, some people said that "wine should not be mixed. Even if you drink it, you are drunk. " The general idea is that wine can't be mixed, and even people who have a good capacity for drinking are easy to get drunk when mixed.
This statement is not the "patent" of the people of China. In foreign countries, mixed drinking should pay attention to the order of drinking. In Germany, people will say, "drink red wine first, then beer, which will make you fall to the ground;" Only by drinking beer first can you live forever (wein aufbier, dasrat 'ich dir bier aufbein, daslass 'sein) "; In France, people will say "biè re sur vin estvenin, vin sur biè re est belle maniè re", which means the same as above. Therefore, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, the common practice of wine lovers in various countries is to drink beer first, and then drink white or red wine.
However, is it reliable to say that "it is easier to get drunk with wine"? A group of scientists in Germany decided to speak by experiment.
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Is it easier to get drunk by mixing drinks? Scientists have something to say.
In this latest study, which was recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, scientists in Germany and Britain recruited 90 volunteers between the ages of 19 and 40, and divided them into three groups to observe the degree of drunkenness by drinking in different ways. The experimental design is as follows:
The first group: drink beer until the BrAC reaches 0.05% or above, and then drink wine until BRAC reaches 0. 1 1% (close to the China drunk driving standard, that is, 0. 10% to 0.1%.
Group 2: Drink wine until the BrAC reaches 0.05% or above, and then drink beer until BRAC reaches 0. 1 1%.
Group 3: Drink only beer or liquor until BrAC is 0. 1 1%.
The subjects in the three groups stopped when the breath alcohol concentration reached 0. 1 1%, and the subjects evaluated their drunkenness from 1 to 10. Drink pure water by weight, and then go back to sleep under the supervision of the medical team. The next morning, all the people answered eight questions about the hangover degree on the hangover degree test scale, and finally scored the main variables used to evaluate the effect of this experiment.
In order to avoid the different effects of the three groups of people due to individual differences, the experimenter was invited to the laboratory again in the second week, and the experimental process was repeated in reverse order. This time, the first group is the order of drinking white beer first, the second group is the order of drinking white beer first, and in the third group, the volunteers who used to drink only white wine are replaced by beer, while the beer drinkers operate in reverse. The next morning, volunteers will do the same test paper again.
The final result showed that after being drunk twice, the volunteers did not show significantly different hangovers. In other words, people who are drunk to a certain extent will be drunk, whether it is red before beer, beer before red, or just drinking one kind of wine.
Schematic diagram of experimental design (image source: K? Chling et al., 20 19)
Why should we use the degree of hangover to judge whether we are more likely to get drunk?
At present, our understanding of hangover still stays in perceptual knowledge. People with a hangover usually have thirst, fatigue, headache, dizziness, nausea, stomachache, rapid heartbeat, nausea and other reactions. This phenomenon occurs in the process of recovering the alcohol content in the blood from excessive to zero, during which symptoms such as dehydration, severe immune response, metabolism and hormone disorder may occur.
Compared with hangover, the experimenter thinks that the degree of drunkenness immediately after drinking too much can only reflect the so-called acute alcoholism, such as vomiting and dizziness. Hangovers are worse and last longer. Moreover, the physiological phenomenon of hangover has not been systematically investigated so far, and people rely more on folklore to understand and "treat" hangover.
For example, in the northeast, the old irons have the saying that a bottle of beer is "transparent". That is, the morning after the hangover, drink some beer to relieve the hangover. This is similar to the so-called "dog's hair" circulating in Britain and Germany, that is, if you are bitten by a dog, pulling out the dog's hair and putting it on the wound can promote wound healing. The results of these folk earthwork are incalculable. In order to cope with hangovers, the research team realized that we first need to understand the causes and potential influencing factors of hangovers, which is also the source of this study.
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This has nothing to do with the way you drink. Why are some people obviously more likely to get drunk?
It is often said that women are more likely to get drunk than men, but this study found no obvious gender difference. In addition, other factors including age, weight and drinking order (beer and wine) will not affect the degree of hangover. After drinking, people's subjective degree of drunkenness (that is, the score of 1 to 10) and vomiting are the only factors that can predict the degree of hangover the next day.
The experimenter thinks that other factors affecting the degree of hangover may include the difference of congenital genes and the difference of acquired degrading enzyme activity, which needs further study and textual research. However, the negative effects of alcohol on our health are well documented.
There is no "reasonable dose" for drinking. As long as you drink alcohol, it will lead to the potential risk of cardiovascular diseases, damage the health of the liver and improve all-cause mortality. For girls, it will also increase the risk of PMS.
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Therefore, the best way to drink is not to drink (authoritative advice), rather than thinking about how to drink to relieve headaches and avoid embarrassing mobile phone communication records.
References:
1.k？ Lin Jie, geis, B, Worth, S .. Haenszel, Queensland, UK (20 19). Grapes or grains, not both? Randomized controlled multi-arm matching triple crossover test of beer and wine. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 109(2), 345-352.
2.IARD: blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit. Retrieved from http://www.iard.org/resources/BAC-and-brac-limits/
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