Many a Sunday morning has involved millions of people all over the world
wishing they hadn't had quite so much.
Their heads throb like a teenage boy's Adam's Apple on seeing Selena Gomez.
Their throats are drier than a sand-technology textbook.
Yet too much beer has always, always meant one big hangover.
Now, however, sensitive Australian scientists claim they might take away at
least some of the pain. They say they've created rehydrating beer.
News-Medical reports that nutrition experts at the Griffith Health
Institute insist they've taken out many of the pesky dehydrative properties of
beer (which cause the hangover) and still made it taste, well, like beer.
The idea was quite simple: make it more like Gatorade. In essence, the
scientists added electrolytes to the beer, in order to keep mind and body
afloat.
The experiment consisted of making people who'd just finished exercising
(and therefore sweating) drink one of four beers. There were two full-strength
brews and two of the lighter variety, one of each with electrolytes added.
Participants were asked to drink 150 percent of the amount of lost body
mass due to exercise. They had to complete their drinking session in one
hour.
You might imagine that beer-drinking after exercise might not be the most
healthy thing to do.
On the one hand, you might never have met an English Premier League soccer
player.
On the other, Associate Professor Ben Desbrow told News-Medical that many
manual workers (techies, for example) do just that. They lift, run around or
type and then sweat. Then they go to the pub.
Perhaps it's not surprising that the best performer with respect to
hydration was the electro-light beer.
The researchers declared it one-third more effective with respect to
hydration than a normal beer.
The trade-off, of course, was that the light beer had less alcohol. In each
case, though, the scientists claim that no one noticed any difference in taste
with any of the beers.
Many vodka drinkers have claimed over the years that they can become
decidedly tipsy and then wake up entirely refreshed.
Some beer drinkers choose, after a heavy night solving the world's major
issues, to drink several large glasses of water before going to bed.
This might mitigate against a hangover, though it might also cause some
waking in the night to go to the bathroom.
I wonder, though, should electro-light beer become commercially available,
whether people would readily select it.
Some hardened beer drinkers believe the morning-after pain is part of the
experience.
Light beer is a soft (and, some feel, relatively tasteless) option already.
Would an electro-light beer seem like little more -- or even less -- than an
alcopop?
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