Zero drinks vs standard sugar?

Ben M said:
To dehydrate yourself more?

orange juice is the best thing to drink when you're hung over, I always take a carton up to bed with me when I get home from drinking :p
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The diuretic effect of caffeine is massively overstated, it's extremely mild. I'd have coke for the sugar and the caffeine and water to rehydrate. I'd I'm hung over enough to have a coke the orange juice is going to make me vomit.
 
AcidHell2 said:
That use to be true for things like fanta, but know they have the zero version they taste fine.
Diet coke and diet pepsi have always tasted fine.
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Not for me I'm afraid, I just can't understand how anyone can handle to the taste of artificial sweeteners of any kind, they just taste chemical and over-sweet to me.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11845406 said:
The diuretic effect of caffeine is massively overstated, it's extremely mild. I'd have coke for the sugar and the caffeine and water to rehydrate. I'd I'm hung over enough to have a coke the orange juice is going to make me vomit.
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I was referring more to the large volumes of sugar and other solutes in it to be honest.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11845413 said:
Not for me I'm afraid, I just can't understand how anyone can handle to the taste of artificial sweeteners of any kind, they just taste chemical and over-sweet to me.
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Over sweet :eek:, have you tried full sugar coke, the diet version are far less sweet.

Ben M said:
I was referring more to the large volumes of sugar and other solutes in it to be honest.
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when your hungover you need the caffeine, sugar and the water so coke is great, you also need fat and salt as well.
 
Ben M said:
To dehydrate yourself more?

orange juice is the best thing to drink when you're hung over, I always take a carton up to bed with me when I get home from drinking :p
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If your hung over suger>water for the hang over, 2 L bottle, with water + a bit of salt + a few spoon fulls of sugar drink some put it by bed go back to seep drink every now and then while watching cartoons.
 
Tefal said:
If your hung over suger>water for the hang over, 2 L bottle, with water + a bit of salt + a few spoon fulls of sugar drink some put it by bed go back to seep drink every now and then while watching cartoons.
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Orange juice (with bits, not from concentrate) is the win to be honest. It's sugary, goes down easily, tastes nice (so doesn't make you feel ill) and contains vitamin C, which is in all the hangover cure things- so is meant to help.

I don't really get hung over anyway, just really thirst the next morning and in the night, and orange juice hasn't failed me yet.
 
Ben M said:
Orange juice (with bits, not from concentrate) is the win to be honest. It's sugary, goes down easily, tastes nice (so doesn't make you feel ill) and contains vitamin C, which is in all the hangover cure things- so is meant to help.

I don't really get hung over anyway, just really thirst the next morning and in the night, and orange juice hasn't failed me yet.
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Vitamin c will do nothing for hangovers

Sugar - alcohol decreases blood sugar levels by a large amount, hence why you feel so tiered
Water - Alcohol is an effective dhyrectic so you need to replace it
Caffeine - You don't sleep properly when drunk so it compounds with the blood sugar to make you feel even more tiered
Salt - Salt is extremely important for the body, alcohol washes much of this salt out.
Fat - Alcohol increase the acidity in your stomach, you need something fatty and stodgy to lower the acidity.
 
I am now a BIG Coke Zero fan... for years i've avoided Diet Coke and the equivalents because they taste like gash but I can't believe how like normal coke the Zero is, i'm really impressed and it's now pretty much the only pop I drink in the house. It's nice having it at Maccy D's too. :)

Pepsi MAX is rank in comparison... though ironically I prefer normal Pepsi to normal Coke.
 
lord filbuster said:
They are harmless, i seem to remember the study that said they give people cancer was done on rats, and the guy had given them a dose of aspartame equivalent to about 5 years of human consumption in one go or something.
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I wouldn't be convinced either way by such a study, just because a bad methodology was used wouldn't automatically make me assume that the chemicals were safe or the converse. Other animals (not surprisingly) can react differently to humans even when exposed to the same compounds and comparable doses.

As for the original topic I prefer to have the drinks with sugar rather than sweeteners, partly because I tend to think of sugar as more 'natural' but mainly because I generally prefer the taste.
 
To be honest, with things like this, you can't really go wrong with the "everything in moderation" approach.
 
AcidHell2 said:
You do realise it's heavily refined and there's proper studys into the dangers of excess sugar compared to sweetners. Not a problem though if you don't drink it by the bucket.
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Yep, I do, that is why I put it in quotation marks. I know something about the various processes and associated risks but it is one of those instinctive connections that the mind makes, sugar = more natural even though I know that the heavily refined sugar is a long way from natural.

As you and Ben M have said it isn't a huge issue provided you don't drink excessive quantities.
 
Brother is diabetic so our family stocks only diet/zero drinks. Had diet/zero stuff for so long now i can't drink the normal kind, too sweet.
 
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