I was reading the New Straits Time today and found this interesting article in Mind Your Body section. It was on the fact or Fiction of Hangover Cures. I guess most of us would have known some of the facts that I am about to share with you but then again, just read on for your info.

In this article, a bar manager from Prime society restaurant at Dempsey Hill, created an ideal Hangover Cure, a cocktail he calls Ozest. Too bad I don’t have the pics here.

Ingredients

120ml Green Tea
45ml Orange Tea
One tablespoon Honey
Two Slices of Orange

Method

Place the slices of orange in a glass
Mix all other ingredients together and pour into the glass
With the sliced orange.

Just a brief Intro on Hangover, courtesy of Mind Your Body.

What is Hangover?

Hangovers are characterized by headaches, nausea, dizziness, irritability, thirst, fatigue and loss of appetite.

Curing a Hangover

The key to curing a hangover is not to drink too much in the first place. However, TIME is the only CURE once a hangover kicked in.

Ways to alleviate the symptoms.

- Take aspirin to take care of headache

- Drink Fluids to offset dehydration

- Reduce “morning after” symptoms by drinking lots of water

- Eat Pure foods

- Stick to Fruit and vegetable juices which are high in antioxidants

Avoiding a Hangover

- Drink a glass of water for every glass of alcohol.

- Cut down on smoking while out drinking as smoking makes you thirsty

- Avoid drinking on an empty stomach. Food help to absorb alcohol, giving the body more time to process it and reducing the risk of hangover

- Eating foods high In protein such as fish, nuts and beans before drinking slow down the alcohol absorption rate

But at the end of the day, Please Don’t Drink and Drive even though you have all of the above in mind.

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