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Hard to imagine the New Year without a delicious meal on the table and alcohol. However, the holidays pass, but an unpleasant aftertaste in the form of a hangover - remains. What alcohol choose to protect the body from a hangover? Headache, nausea, intoxication - often these symptoms you feel if "sifted" poor liquor. But not all the same alcohol affects the body - it all depends on its composition. The most difficult runs hangover after drinking beverages such as cognac, brandy, whiskey and various sparkling wines. Severe headache cause red wine - because it contained tyramine. Scientists have proved that dark colored spirits, such as bourbon, cause more severe hangovers than lighter. For example, after the hangover whiskey is stronger than after vodka (in terms of an equal amount of alcohol consumed). The reason is that there is more than whiskey fusel oils and other additives which cause a terrible hangover. Unfortunately, the producers of vodka is also not "aver...

At an earlier age than folks who avoid those habits, a new study suggests. It's long been known that smoking is a risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer - a disease that is rarely caught early and has a grim prognosis. Only about five of every 100 people diagnosed with the cancer are still alive five years later. The evidence on heavy drinking has been more mixed, but some studies have suggested it's also a risk factor. Now, the new results show the disease may strike smokers and drinkers earlier in life. "If you do have these habits, and you're going to develop pancreatic cancer, the age of presentation may be younger," said lead researcher Dr. Michelle A. Anderson, of the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Her team also found that the effect disappeared for former smokers or drinkers if they had quit 10 years or more before being diagnosed. On average, the risk of developing pancreatic cancer in your lifetime is about one...