Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Red Bull Buzz

In one session the volunteers consumed this amount of alcohol alone, and in another they drank it mixed with Red Bull. In a third session the subjects consumed the energy drink without any alcohol.
Souza-Formigoni and her colleagues found that volunteers in both groups felt they had better motor coordination when drinking alcohol mixed with the energy drink than when they consumed alcohol alone.
But in a test of motor skills where subjects had to transfer pegs on a board, those drinking alcohol mixed with an energy drink did not perform better than those who drank the alcoholic drink by itself.

Hey: Drink Red Bull with your vodka and you feel less drunk. That's the news here! (Of course, "Lipo Sang Som" has been a staple around garishly-painted cement picnic tables on Pattaya sidewalks for years now. If you're 75 years old, and it is 2:00 in the afternoon and 98ยบ in the shade, how else are you supposed to drink a liter of whiskey and stay conscious? These are legitimate and reasonable questions in this town.

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