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Researchers have finally released a study that hits at home with most college students. They have found that dark liquors make for a much hangover the morning after drinking. In order to complete the study, the researchers recruited 95 healthy individuals and divided them into teams which drank bourbon, vodka, and tonic water. Once the individuals had the blood alcohol level of .11 they were put to bed with sleep monitoring equipment which monitored them throughout the night. At 7 am the next morning the subjects were woken up, and what the researchers found was astonishing. Using a scale to measure the severity of the hangover, bourbon drinkers were overall much worse than those that drank vodka. Although this seems like a big difference, the alcohol showed no different effects with sleeping ability or cognitive tests.
Researchers note that this outcome could be expected. They note that bourbon, and dark liquors in general, have over 37 times as many toxic compounds as vodka does, ranging from acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins, and furfural. The researchers noted that as a good rule of thumb, the lighter the liquor, the less of these toxins contained in them.
Although this research probably won't stop people from drinking dark liquors, researchers hope that people can use this data as a way to be more responsible with their drinking. If someone has a sensitive task to be done in the morning, such as driving, one might want to stay away from the dark liquors and instead choose the lighter liquors.
Dark Liquor Makes For Worse Hangovers
| [1] | L. Sanders, “Dark Liquor Makes For Worse Hangovers,” Wired Science, Feb. 2010. [Online]. Available: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/dark-liquor-makes-for-worse-hangovers/#more-16015. [Accessed Feb. 10, 2010]. |
Researchers have finally released a study that hits at home with most college students. They have found that dark liquors make for a much hangover the morning after drinking. In order to complete the study, the researchers recruited 95 healthy individuals and divided them into teams which drank bourbon, vodka, and tonic water. Once the individuals had the blood alcohol level of .11 they were put to bed with sleep monitoring equipment which monitored them throughout the night. At 7 am the next morning the subjects were woken up, and what the researchers found was astonishing. Using a scale to measure the severity of the hangover, bourbon drinkers were overall much worse than those that drank vodka. Although this seems like a big difference, the alcohol showed no different effects with sleeping ability or cognitive tests.
Researchers note that this outcome could be expected. They note that bourbon, and dark liquors in general, have over 37 times as many toxic compounds as vodka does, ranging from acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins, and furfural. The researchers noted that as a good rule of thumb, the lighter the liquor, the less of these toxins contained in them.
Although this research probably won't stop people from drinking dark liquors, researchers hope that people can use this data as a way to be more responsible with their drinking. If someone has a sensitive task to be done in the morning, such as driving, one might want to stay away from the dark liquors and instead choose the lighter liquors.
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