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By: Goodness Maseko

The belief that a hangover remedy will always cure a hangover is a reason many people drink far more that they should. Although many cures for a hangover are readily available, the best one is to say no to the drink. The cure is trying to remedy a number of problems caused by excess alcohol in the system, most of which are caused by dehydration.

Due to the action of impurities within the drink itself, some alcoholic beverages give worse hangovers than others. How quickly you become drunk is also often down the level of these impurities and just how severe the hangover will be. For instance the white (vodka, gin etc) spirits have less impurities than the colored ones (whisky and cognac) as they have been filtered.

However, the real reason we have hangovers and strive for perfect hangover remedies is because we simply drink too much. This is often the case when we drink a great deal in a short space of time or maybe we drink on an empty stomach, but at the end of the day, no one made us do this. It is well known that if you drink slowly, the body is able to process the alcohol and other toxins before they get to a level that gets us drunk. As a consequence the world has become full of hangover remedies, some of which are quite ludicrous and talking about cures for a hangover has become a common topic in bars around the world. But finding an effective cure for a hangover is still being sought, apart from not drinking of course.

It doesn't matter how slowly you drink, if you don't stop, alcohol will gradually dehydrate the body and this dehydration can lead to the hangover headache the next day, therefore, it's important to re-hydrate your body before you go to bed. One favorite is taking a couple of headache tablets and drinking a pint of cold mineral water before bed and then some orange juice in the morning as it replaces lost vitamin C. Even though this method does work quite well, as with many things in life, the older you get the lower your tolerance to alcohol becomes and you find all those hangover remedies that once worked when you were more youthful, are becoming less effective.

A recent addition to the hangover remedies list is bananas which apparently contain large amounts of fructose and potassium which are tow minerals lost when drinking. Bananas also have two other ingredients that help with hangovers; there is an antacid to help with the nausea and magnesium to help with the bad headache.

There are still those hardened souls that believe that drinking more alcohol the following day in the form of a 'Bloody Mary' is a cure for a hangover but the jury is still out on this one. Probably being strong and sober enough to say 'No' is the best of the hangover remedies currently available!

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