Why men are superios to women
 

Women get worse hangovers than men


September 15, 2003

BY LEE BOWMAN

In the life-is-not-fair category, new research finds that women not only get drunk on fewer drinks than men but women also suffer from worse hangovers.

A team at the University of Missouri-Columbia developed a new scientific scale for measuring hangover symptoms and severity.

Even accounting for differences in the amount of alcohol consumed by men and women, hangovers hit women harder.

''This finding makes biological sense, because women tend to weigh less and have lower percentages of total body water than men do, so they should achieve higher degrees of intoxication and, presumably, more hangover per unit of alcohol,'' said Wendy Slutske, an associate professor of psychology who led the team.

The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, is being published today in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

The researchers asked 1,230 drinking college students, only 5 percent of whom were of legal drinking age -- to describe how often they experienced any of 13 symptoms after drinking. The symptoms in the study ranged from headaches and vomiting to feeling weak and unable to concentrate.

Besides women, the study found that the symptoms were more common in students who reported having alcohol-related problems or who had one or both biological parents with a history of alcohol-related problems.

''We were surprised to discover how little research had been conducted on hangover, because the research that does exist suggests that hangover could be an important factor in problem drinking,'' said Thomas Piasecki, an assistant professor of clinical psychology who took part in the study.

Other research has pinpointed hangover impairment as an important factor in drinkers suffering injury or death, and in economic losses arising from people taking time off to recover from a drinking bout.

The most common symptom reported was dehydration or feeling thirsty. The least common symptom was trembling or shaking.

Scripps Howard News Service

Why women are superior to men:
 

We can spell "superior." :p

I was waiting to see if anybody picked up on my bad spelling.:D

and we have boobs

my answer to everything that happens to me
"They're called boobs, Ed."

God was a man.

well, i get to pee standing up, but when I cry i don't get flowers. I guess it's a big trade-off.

We drink more coffee/caffeine...

No coffee

No workee...

That's true. If i had those, i'd never leave my room.

Last time I did that, I received a nasty PM from someone (not you). You're always extremely polite.