I ran across this interesting article about the myths on drinking alcohol and thought that you might enjoy reading it also. There are so many different myths that are out there these days, I am glad that some one put them together and talked about them.
Business Insider
Kelly Dickerson
Feb. 6, 2014
You may drink, and you may party, but
do you get My Drunk Kitchen wasted?
Well, it seems that drunk cooking video
host Hannah Hart's learned her fair share from her series - she hosted Mental
Floss's weekly video list laying out 29 common misconceptions about alcohol.
Here are the 8 biggest alcohol-related
myths, and why they are false.
1. Liquor before beer never fear, beer
before liquor never sicker. There's no magical order of drinking that will save
you from a hangover the next day. The order you drink certain types of alcohol
in doesn't matter - even switching between beer, wine, and liquor throughout
the night won't make a difference. Bottom line: all that matters is how much
you drink, not if you saved the beer for last.
2. Breaking the seal means you'll have
to pee more all night. Alcohol is a diuretic, so it's already going to make you
pee a lot. "Breaking the seal" the first time will not increase the
amount of times you have to go to the bathroom, but drinking lots of alcohol
will.
3. Blackouts can eventually be
remembered. If you wake up fuzzy on the details from the night before, you
probably shouldn't even bother trying to remember: it's impossible. When we
drink too much the part of our brain that encodes memories actually switches
off. People claiming they remember what happened after they blacked out are
probably having what are called false memories.
4. The lines on a solo cup are for
measuring alcohol. While the lines on a solo cup do come close to matching up
with alcohol measurements (the bottom line is close to one ounce for liquor,
the middle line is close to five ounces for wine, etc.) the Solo company has
said repeatedly that the lines on the cup do not exist for that purpose. They
even went to the trouble of making a graphic on their Facebook page
illustrating their point.
5. Mixing energy drinks with alcohol
makes you drunker. Turns out it just energizes you. The problem is the extra
shot of energy can make you feel less intoxicated than you actually are.
6. Tequila makes you crazy. There is no
evidence that a type of alcohol gets you a certain type of drunk. So anyone
claiming that wine makes them sad, or whiskey makes them angry, doesn't have
much scientific evidence backing them up. The number of drinks and speed of
drinking have the biggest impact on your drunk mood.
7. Eating before drinking keeps you
sober. Eating before drinking does help your body absorb alcohol, but it only
delays the alcohol entering your bloodstream, it doesn't restrict it. Your body
absorbs the alcohol slower after a big meal, so eating before drinking can help
the severity of your hangover. Eating a lot after drinking won't do anything
for your hangover.
8. A night cap helps you sleep. A drink
before bed will help you fall asleep faster, but your body will actually spend
less time in REM, and the quality of your sleep will suffer.
Check out 21 more alcohol
misconceptions in the video below and you can read more @
Go online and check out the rest of the story and video, I think you will find it amusing as well as enlightening. ;o)
