{"id":193738,"date":"2018-12-28T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=193738"},"modified":"2018-12-28T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:00:10","slug":"avoid-hangover-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2018\/12\/28\/avoid-hangover-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the hangover nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now you have a pounding headache, feeling queasy, irritable, dizzy, and experiencing a little sensitivity to light and sound as well as suffering from muscle aches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;ve been told to eat a banana before you go to bed; get on the Bloody Mary&#8217;s the next morning; absorb the alcohol with a fatty fry-up; and\u00a0even hold your nose and knock back an aubergine and raw egg smoothie if you want to be hangover free.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone has their way of either avoiding the dreaded morning hangover or getting rid of it, but the whole process of identifying what will work for you is trial and error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><b>However, here are a few tips that could help you this festive season:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Eat before you start drinking: food in your stomach &#8211; especially carbs and starch such as pasta and bananas &#8211; slows down the absorption of alcohol into your blood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Try\u00a0stay away from drinking dark liquors such as red wine, brandy or whiskey, which have higher concentrations of congeners, chemicals that are toxic to the body.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Don&#8217;t mix drinks, because you will only end up drinking more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Try\u00a0avoid eating spicy foods such as a curry or kebab after drinking as they may upset your stomach.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Best tip is to follow every drink with a glass of water to keep yourself\u00a0hydrated,\u00a0and drink plenty of water before you go to bed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Maybe get some fresh air, and if possible, walk home with friends as exercise helps increases the metabolism of alcohol.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Simplest\u00a0solution just\u00a0avoid\u00a0drinking too much.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0As a rule, men should not drink more than 3 to 4 units of alcohol a day, women more than 2 to 3 units<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0If you overindulge at a party, avoid alcohol for 48 hours\u00a0afterwards<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Vitamin B is your friend. Eat a bowl of cereal and milk, topped with a banana to replenish lost\u00a0potassium,\u00a0or a gentle pro-biotic drink<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Eggs may have a beneficial effect on reducing the effects of a hangover because they contain an amino acid called cysteine which breaks down the toxin acetaldehyde, produced by too much alcohol consumption<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Information retrieved from\u00a0internet\u00a0source:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2236182\/Hangover-cures-myths-Christmas-party-season.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='98009abdad33632e91a3740e93bb78ab'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s fun turned into your worst nightmare the morning after you are hung over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":193739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton local media","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[6104,9459,7591,2432,10807,2433,23722,1289,23723,11664],"class_list":["post-193738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-alcohol","tag-bananas","tag-brandy","tag-cure","tag-drinking","tag-hangover","tag-headches","tag-water","tag-whisky","tag-wine"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["alcohol","bananas","brandy","cure","drinking","hangover","headches","water","whisky","wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}