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NO-ONE ENJOYS the headaches, nausea, and sluggishness of a hangover. There seems to be a general perception that as people get older, their drinking stamina decreases.
However, a new study shows that older binge drinkers report less-frequent and less-severe hangovers.
Research on hangovers is usually centred around young people — college-aged partiers likely to consume more alcohol more often than older people.
The new study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, analysed the hangovers of close to 52,000 participants of legal drinking age. The oldest participant was 94.
Participants in the survey were asked their typical alcohol consumption per week, of beer, wine, fortified wine, and spirits, and how often they took part in binge drinking, ranging from never to more than once a week.
The symptoms
In regards to hangovers, participants were asked how often they experienced thirst, exhaustion, headaches, dizziness, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting after an episode of binge drinking. They found that older people drank less, but when they did binge drink they experienced fewer hangover symptoms.
You’d think the reason would be obvious: Older people drink less, so of course they experience fewer and less-severe hangovers. But the results were the same, even after accounting for the frequency of binge drinking, drinking with or without a meal, and drinking while smoking.
“While it is true that older individuals on average binge-drink less often than younger individuals, we did not find in our data that results were due to differences in drinking patterns,” study researcher Janne Tolstrup, of the University of Southern Denmark, said in a press release.
So, why then?
The scientists discussed four possible explanations for their results.
1. Binge drinking intensity decreases with age.
In a survey, 18- to 24-year-olds defined binge drinking as nine drinks. Those who are 65 years old and up defined binge drinking as only six drinks. This suggests that binge drinking intensity decreases with age. The study only examined the frequency of binge drinking, not the intensity.
2. Increased alcohol tolerance.
Research shows that people can build up a tolerance for alcohol, so older drinkers can handle more drinks before they start feeling a hangover the next day.
3. Trial and error.
Some people swear a Bloody Mary cures their hangover, for others it may be as simple as drinking a big glass of water before bed or popping an aspirin. As people age, many develop their own personal hangover prevention or morning-after cure, and this could be a possible explanation for why older people have an easier time after binge drinking — they know what works to feel better the morning after.
4. Natural selection.
The scientists acknowledge that it may be possible that people who experience more severe hangovers simply give up and quit binge drinking as they grow older — essentially pruning the drinking tree.
There’s still a lot of work to do to understand hangovers.
“While there have been tens of thousands of studies on the more direct effects of alcohol, there have only been fewer than 200 published papers on the hangover,” Tolstrup said in a press release.
- Kelly Dickerson
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And now we have the cult of Putin.. Lenin, Stalin, Putin… The cults of Lenin and Stalin also inspired the cults of Mao, Kim Il Sung, Castro, Che Guevara, Chavez and many imitators…glamourising and disguising violence,war, terrorism, repression, famines, economic failures and totalitarianism
I love the way when there is a famine in a communist society it is obviously got something to do with the economic system but when there is a famine in a capitalist society its always caused by the weather. I.e. The Great Irish Famine, The Indian Famines, Egyptian famines etc
The Irish famine occurred in an abusive imperial power, an over reliance in a single crop, and disease of the crop not weather, the Bengali famine of the 40′s was again imperial powers, war and multiple other factors
Eh I know, I wasn’t really saying they were caused by the weather. But they were caused by the economic system, the job of the imperial power was to maintain the economic system. So when you had famine in India, the price of grain rose skyhigh, but the British wouldn’t implement price controls because that violated the principles of the free market. And then you had areas with plenty of grain but the were unlucky enough to be beside a railroad, so they starved. The construction of the railroads was a great tragedy for many nations because it meant they could be robbed faster.
Imperial colonialism and capitalism are not the same economic systems! You specifically said “capitalist societies” you also referenced 3 famines 2 of which had almost zero blame attributed to weather India & Ireland.
@ David , no ur incorrect …. Western Financiers of the day put those ousted the tsar and put those pigs in place …..Jacob Schiff was head of the New York
investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. He
was one of the principal backers of the
Bolshevik revolution and personally
financed Trotsky’s trip from New York
to Russia. ……. Those same type of financiers were fired out of Russia by Putin ………and those same type of financiers are behind the fascist coup d’état in Ukraine ……….
@ David ….. If the likes of you are the champions of such causes … It’s no wonder so much chaos death and destruction has followed the so called path of liberty or democracy ……
Shows the many similarities between totalitarian regimes and religious beliefs – unquestioning faith, fear dressed up as love or respect, the requirement of blind obedience and public displays of loyalty. Replace a live figurehead with a dead one and you have a religion. They may have been ‘atheistic’ states but that’s only because their leaders couldn’t abide any competition
True Colin
Nicole people of the journal love you don’t they :)
Saul, lay off her, I gave her a green thumb cos I feel sorry for her.
Stalin was born in Georgia and they apparently hate him so much there that the museums are exhibiting items associated with his many atrocities against the Russian people.
I do believe I saw a statue of Stalin in downtown Tiblisi, but they also have a highway named after George W. Bush on the way to the airport
Stalin had a brain disease. That’s putting in mildly. The man ( beast ) was a paranoid maniac and a butcher of people. He murdered more innocent people than Hitler. Even his own family were not safe from his madness.
Not really fair to link Lenin and Stalin as if they were somehow one in the same, Stalinism was the anthesisis of what Lenin and the Bolsheviks stood for, it was Stalin and the bureaucracy that perpetuated the cult of Lenin as the great leader for their own ends. Lenin to his credit was a great man, but he never really elevated himself above anyone else, although his political astutness and revolutionary determination naturally put him in a leadership role.
Connor. Lenin was as bad as Stalin. Only because he died not long after taking power was his murderous reign handed over to Stalin.
http://en.novayagazeta.ru/society/54598.html
Agreed. Here is a quote from honorary Spanish citizen and Irishman Peter O Conor. He fought the fascists in Spain back in the day. I feel it’s very apt as history is repeating itself in Europe.
“How things have changed … The great lesson of Spain was the lesson of unity, where comrades of every religion, and of none, united in a common cause to defeat … fascism.”
Ar dheis de go raibh a ainm.
http://irelandscw.com/ibvol-PoC.htm
Riddle. The Republicans in Spain spent as much time killing each other as they did the Nationalists. So this myth of some sort of Unity is only that a myth.
Sure Mick. Here is another quote from Mr o Conor
“You have to believe in something – in a cause that will make the world a better place, or you have wasted your life. I have always been inspired by the following quote from Lenin: ‘Man’s dearest possession is life and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as to feel no torturing regrets for years without a purpose; so live as not to be seared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past, so live, that dying he can say, ‘all my life and all my strength were given to the finest cause in the world – The Liberation of Mankind.”
On the subject of propaganda Mr O Conor had this to say in tribute to his wife
“Through all the vile propaganda about the Reds in Spain burning churches, murdering priests and digging up the skeletons of nuns and dragging them through the streets … she never left me for which I … thank her most sincerely.”
Mick, Sometimes the world moves in a direction where it becomes clear there is a battle between good and evil and ordinary people who care about their fellow man must take sides. I feel the world is again moving in this direction.
And Communism made the world a better place? Tell that to the 400 hundred million+ that were murdered under communist rule.
400 million murdered? Doubt there was ever 400 million communists alive! You watching your Rambo movies again Mick?
Nicole. 100 million in China alone. You really should do some reading before you comment.
Communism didn’t work nobody is arguing that. Systemic problems existed like concentration of power which was abused by such as Stalin. The ideology itself was noble and many contented people lives entire lives under the system. Fascist ideology is evil and anti human from the outset, pitting once race above another. That is the difference. Today democracy as it was intended suffers increasingly systemic problems. And elite financiers are taking over and will slowly strangle and subdue humanity. We see the beginnings of this in Ireland and it drives a civil war in Ukraine. This is today’s good vs evil. The financiers are even worse than fascists as they hide unseen and manipulate humanity toward their impersonal anti human subjugation of man. Of course you and I will never agree on this. Yet this battle exists just as fascism vs communism did in Europe in the 1930s.
@Mick Jordan, you are of course correct. The Republicans in the Spanish War were deeply divided between Socialists, Communists, Anarchists and others whereas the Nationalists were much more united under Franco.
100 million murdered in China …..go on Mick this is interesting….. Stalin killed about 20 million or so….Pol Pot….2 million or so….North Vietnam 4 million …Opps no US killed them….oh yes…Cuba….5000 there ….east Germany of course…500. Did some communist country use an atomic bomb? Only aware of the US doing that. Sorry Mick you’re gonna have to fill me in here. I doubt you were exaggerating now eh
Opps we nearly forgot North Korea….few million there I guess but then most were killed by the UN.
Riddle. Fascism and Communism are two sides of the same coin. One discriminates against race and nationality the other discriminates against those of different social structures. Both are discriminatory.
Nicole, who says they were all communist? They were people murdered under communist rule!
Mick…. Stuck here….looking for about 250 million + murders by communists. Although your Chinese figures seem a bit over the top too but let’s leave that one….(are you digging up a CIA manufactured file ?).
Nicole. Mao alone was responsible for 100 million. Stalin alone 50 million. Pol Pot 4 million. Thats 1/4 of the entire population of Cambodia. North Korea under the Kim’s 25 million and counting. That that is not including all the Communist regimes across the globe. Burma another 30 million (estimated) East Germany from 1945 to the fall of Communism 1 million. Romania 1million+, Albania 500 thousand+ South Vietnam after the Communist take over 1 million+, Laos 750,000 after the Pathe Lao take over.
Is Nicole defending Communism for murdering tens of millions of people?
Her apparent triumphalist tone that it was ‘only’ 100+ million people is frankly depraved.
This place plumbs new depths every day..
Mick, when it comes to “deaths caused” Nicole only likes to exaggerate the numbers when America is involved.
There is a new struggle Mick, elite Financiers vs humanity.
Even with the exaggerated figures you get to around 200 million. You said 400 million +. By my measure you speak 50% exaggerated bull Mick. Burma was right wing extremists and are still in power.
Nicole. Communist leaders caused their deaths. As such Communist leaders murdered them.
Btw Nicole. Trying to back track claiming that you are only trying to wind me up won’t fly. To many people on here have seen the drivel you post and know what you are like.
Nicole. I didn’t add in the numbers of those killed in Africa and Central and South America. But I did say across the Globe.
Communism has existed for less than 100 years yet it is responsible for the deaths of about 8% of the entire population of the planet. That is some record.
Typical iNicole. Getting herself twisted in knots just so she can avail of an opportunity to bash America. This time she has found herself on the same side as PolPot. Well done !
@ Riddle me this : @ Riddle me this: Your analysis is totally correct and today’s fascists sit in Wall Street. Total manipulation of current political and economic events to the detriment of a majority of the worlds population.
“Hope and change” Padraic! :-)
8% of 8 billion….
6 Billion Nicole. As I said you should educate yourself before posting.
Nicole, your grasp of English is not very good.
Well journal.ie could hardly allow the people of the former USSR to commemorate saving us all from fascism now could they? Note the exhibition is in Russia!
I agree thanks to mother Russia we do not speak German!
And half of Europe were forced to learn Russian.
Mick prefers to be speaking German. Superman with his super race.
Nicole, blah blah blah
Mick would you have survived the Nürnberg laws?
Is that American or English ?
Without the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact the Nazi’s could not have invaded western Europe. There would have been no WW2.
Without soviet aid and training there would have been no Luftwaffe. Hence no blitzkrieg.
The Nazis would have struggled to defeat Poland had they not been simultaneously invaded by the USSR on their eastern border.
The soviets were as instrumental to the creation of the third Reich as Adolf Hitler.
Fortunately, honour or cohesion between collectivists rarely lasts long.
Sean, you are very wrong. The expansion to the east was already written in Mein Kampf, Hitler didn’t really want to go into war with the west, he thought he could share power with Britain and keep southern borders safe with fellows Mussolini and Franco, he considered the Americans would never get involved and that the only war to be fought would be the one with Russia, as for the technology, Germany was an industrial society for over a century in comparison to rural Russia, in fact after the war the surviving factories in the GDR were dismantled and taken to Russia to build her industrial basis, so no it was a miscalculation of Hitler that made the conflict global not Stalin’s fault.
Rory. Stalin had hoped that Germany,France and Britain would exhaust each other militarally so he could roll in and mop up what was left. It was the only reason he signed the peace treaty with Hitler. If he was so concerned about Germany why stand by when Germany rolled across France and the Low Countries and threatened invasion of Britain?
Russia did not stand upto nazi Germany . It was quiet happy to co exist beside a nazi germany . They divided Poland between them . It was only after Germany invaded Russia that it’s attitude towards the nazis change . Many other countries around the world stood upto Germany for what it stood for and where prepare to go to war to stand against fascist .
Right Tommy. Because fighting a war against an enemy which promises to exterminate you, and winning that war is now a dishonourable thing. Got it.
Pre-war Luftwaffe pilots trained at Lipetsk, USSR.
Soviet plans to destabilise western Europe came back to bite them in the @as.
Panzer divisions also trained in USSR.
Like I said without soviets the third Reich would never have happened.
Statues of Lenin didn’t go up in Russia until the 50′s. The Cult of Personality was mainly constructed around Stalin. Lenin is still pretty popular in Russia, I think he was voted the 6th most popular Russian ever. So most Russians would distinguish him from Stalin.
The last thing Lenin did was write a letter for Stalin to be removed as General Secretary of the party but it was burnt.
Thanks to the tans we speak English.
Mjhint. Even if they hadn’t and we all spoke Irish as a first language we would all have learnt English in school because it is recognized as the International Language of business. Go into any school across Europe and Asia and you will find English classes.
What the world continues to need is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Authoritarian leaders whether of the Left or the Right deny Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and are still in charge of many countries today including Russia, China, Cuba, Burma, North Korea and too many African countries to mention. Thankfully we now have democratic governments in most countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas which is a great improvement on the situation 40 or 50 years ago. However we have to be vigilant against authoritarian parties either of the Left or the Right who threaten hard one freedom, human rights, democracy and economic and social justice and progress.
The US in ruled by 1% of its population and large corporations. Democracy for the rich and trickle down economics for the test. Pure drivel from the king of spin
Any state is in some way authoritarian. People don’t just choose to voluntarily pay taxes.
Lenin, Stalin, Putin
Deification of man and power. Perhaps taking St Vladimir and particularly Athanasius too seriously or literally ?” God became man ,that man might become God “. Putin is certainly of the Hobbean ilk when it comes to authority , leadership ,and effective government .
Putin is as dangerous, he has so much wealth and residences around the place that no one can ever imagine!! Journalists that want to reveal the truth are still being murdered. And he doesn’t want to give up his power easily! Medvedev having been elected a President in the previous elections was a farce as Putin was ruling the country and Medvedev was just a marionette. Now Putin is starting all this homophobia in the country and if you are a transsexual or a transvestite, you have a “mental” disease and cannot drive a vehicle! What’s the connection here, I don’t get it?!
Would you believe, there are still statues of Lenin and Stalin in some cities’ squares, and streets have their names instead of being renamed!! And embalming Lenin’s corpse to keep him in the Mausoleum costs taxpayers a lot of money! It would make sense to get rid of his corpse and open something else instead of the Mausoleum and do away with all this “bloody” rudiments of the Soviet past!!
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