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jcan
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 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject: Hangover drinks |
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Hey all - was wondering if anyone had any experience with Korean hangover drinks? Looks like Morning Calm (love the name!) and Dawn080 (or something like that) are the most popular. What exactly do they help with - nausea? Headache? And how much of a difference did it actually make?
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NYC_Gal
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Lots of water, orange juice if you can handle it, and a banana once you can tolerate solid foods. Advice from my best friend the doctor of neuroscience. I've had a handful of hangovers in my life (lightweight), and her remedy has helped immensely. |
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northway
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Vitamin water. Sometimes two. If you're in really bad shape maybe a Pocari Sweat. And you should probably eat something so you don't smell like booze. |
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Yahowho
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hangover = dehydration.
Cure = Water + Time. |
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NYC_Gal
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Yahowho wrote: |
Hangover = dehydration.
Cure = Water + Time. |
Any food or drink with potassium helps in addition to the water. |
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Yahowho
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Any additional measures (on top of drinking water) will have minimal effects on your hangover.
Drink water before you go to bed. Drink water when you get up.
Get hydrated... Simple as... |
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jcan
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the comments - I am aware of drinking vitamin water, etc...just wondering if the specific drinks for hangovers you get at the pharmacy are worth it. Does anyone have any expernece? |
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NYC_Gal
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Yahowho wrote: |
Any additional measures (on top of drinking water) will have minimal effects on your hangover.
Drink water before you go to bed. Drink water when you get up.
Get hydrated... Simple as... |
Potassium makes a hell of a difference. Water before bed is a must, as is water when up, but don't knock the OJ and banana. |
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decolyon
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Go to your local corner pharmacy. I usually get 3 or 4 doses at at time and just stick them in cabinet or shelf.
Tell the guy (or have a Korean text message you) that you drank too much the night before. Clarify if it was beer, soju, or hard liquor that did you in. He will get you a small vitamin pack that will set you just right. The pack will have these brown BB looking things, a grain looking vitamin, and then usually a couple tylenol. He'll tell you to wash it all down with one of those hangover drinks or a Bita 500 or other vitamin drink. By the time you leave the pharmacy, you should start to already feel better.
Usually on my way home from the pharmacy I'll pick up my own hangover cure that got me through 4 years at a party college. 2 liter of Gatorade and a large pizza (no thin crust.) This works wonders for me. The gatorade re hydrates and the pizza soaks up any left over booze in your gut and colon. I swear by this and it has always worked (well, a little mary jane is the best cure, but can't get any of that here - nor would you want it.) |
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guava
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| Vitamin water. Sometimes two. |
Vitaminwater x 2 = 64 grams of crystalline fructose, a processed sweetener that has been linked to health problems.
by Mike Adams
Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by Coca-Cola's own lawyers
http://www.naturalnews.com/029425_vitaminwater_Coca-Cola.html
Do you ever wonder things like "Who is actually gullible enough to think that Vitaminwater is healthy?" Although that question may seem demeaning or even arrogant, it turns out that the Coca-Cola company (which owns the Vitaminwater brand) is essentially asking that exact question.
How so? In response to a recent lawsuit against Coca-Cola filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Coke's attorneys replied in court briefings that,
"...no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
Except, of course, millions of consumers were misled into believing precisely that. This illusion was helped in no small part by Coca-Cola's advertising of Vitaminwater, which blatantly positions it as a health-enhancing beverage. Even the name itself implies that the product is made solely out of vitamins and water. But of course it isn't.
"Sugarwater" might be a better name
If Vitaminwater were accurately named, it would actually be called Sugarwater. Its first two ingredients are, not surprisingly, sugar and water (the sugar coming in the form of crystalline fructose, a processed sweetener that has been linked to health problems) (http://www.naturalnews.com/029371_f...)....
...Misleading name, misleading labels
Speaking of disease, how much sugar is actually in Vitaminwater? A lot more than you might think: While the label claims only 13 grams of sugar per serving, one bottle of vitamin water is actually 2.5 servings, meaning that you're chugging down 32 grams of liquid sugars with every bottle.
That's just one of the many "deceptive and unsubstantiated claims" pointed out by CSPI in its lawsuit against Coca-Cola. It is this lawsuit that resulted in Coke's lawyers making the incredible statement that no reasonable person could possibly conclude Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.
Lawyers, by the way, can argue absolutely anything -- even if it makes no sense. And they can do it with a straight face, too. If you're looking for a professional liar, hire a lawyer. Coca-Cola seems to already have its share working at their headquarters in Atlanta.
Using its lawyers, Coca-Cola tried to argue its way out of this CSPI lawsuit, but that effort was rejected by the courts. "A federal judge has denied Coca-Cola's motion to dismiss a lawsuit over what the CSPI says are deceptive and unsubstantiated claims on the company's "vitaminwater" line of soft drinks," touts an article on the CSPI website (http://www.cspinet.org/new/20100723...)
That same announcement goes on to quote Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, who says "The names of the drinks, along with other statements on the label have the potential to reinforce a consumer's mistaken belief that the product is comprised of only vitamins and water."...
...In the mean time, don't buy Vitaminwater. Unless, of course, you think you could use 32 grams of liquid sugars and some synthetic vitamin chemicals in your diet. And if you somehow think that Vitaminwater is healthy, the Coca-Cola corporation thinks you are a fool.
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madtownhustl
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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I drank a vitamin water the morning after a night out in itaewon and puked it up 15 minutes later...
tons of water before you pass out. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Whoever said it was a healthy drink? Folks asked for hangover cures. |
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akcrono
Joined: 11 Mar 2010
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from wiki:
"Hangovers are poorly understood from a medical point of view. Health care professionals prefer to study alcohol abuse from a standpoint of treatment and prevention, and there is a view that the hangover provides a useful, natural and intrinsic disincentive to excessive drinking.[16]
Within the limited amount of serious study on the subject, there is debate about whether a hangover might be prevented or at least mitigated; additionally, there is a vast body of folk medicine and simple quackery. There is currently no empirically proven mechanism for prevention except reducing the amount of ethanol consumed, or for making oneself sober other than waiting for the body to metabolize ingested alcohol, which occurs via oxidation through the liver before alcohol leaves the body. A four-page literature review in British Medical Journal concludes: "No compelling evidence exists to suggest that any conventional or complementary intervention is effective for preventing or treating alcohol hangover. The most effective way to avoid the symptoms of alcohol induced hangover is to avoid drinking."[17]"
However, from empirical experience, when I steadily hydrate while drinking, I have no hangover. When i make my friends do the same (for science!), no hangover for them. If i drink water and have a vitamin pill before bed, i usually dont have a hangover.
In my experience, the best preventative measure is steady hydration with drinking. If you wait too long to consume water, you'll get one anyway. The only thing I've seen that ends a hangover early is a couple glasses of water and more sleep (with the help of a sleeping mask). |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| decolyon wrote: |
Go to your local corner pharmacy. I usually get 3 or 4 doses at at time and just stick them in cabinet or shelf.
Tell the guy (or have a Korean text message you) that you drank too much the night before. Clarify if it was beer, soju, or hard liquor that did you in. He will get you a small vitamin pack that will set you just right. The pack will have these brown BB looking things, a grain looking vitamin, and then usually a couple tylenol. He'll tell you to wash it all down with one of those hangover drinks or a Bita 500 or other vitamin drink. By the time you leave the pharmacy, you should start to already feel better.
Usually on my way home from the pharmacy I'll pick up my own hangover cure that got me through 4 years at a party college. 2 liter of Gatorade and a large pizza (no thin crust.) This works wonders for me. The gatorade re hydrates and the pizza soaks up any left over booze in your gut and colon. I swear by this and it has always worked (well, a little mary jane is the best cure, but can't get any of that here - nor would you want it.) |
Greasy food and water have always helped me. If there isn't a pizza place open try cheese dongcass. Salty, greasy food sort of goes against the idea of rehydrating but I'd swear by it. |
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rowdie3
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Location: Itaewon, Seoul
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Had a hangover on Saturday that just wouldn't quit. Had drank at least 5 glasses of water, ate, and taken a couple ibuprophen.
At about 6pm went to the pharmacy in Itaewon. Said "I have a hangover and a headache". Was given a drink and a pill. 7000W. 30 minutes later, totally back to normal. A little expensvie but totally worth it. |
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