Eating and Drinking has to do – if it runs well, always with enjoyment. Already in the childhood, colorful straws are a recognised means to the birthday spice up the party, and Experiment, encourage. In adulthood, drinking AIDS, we encounter, particularly in cocktail bars, where childish fooling around, however, with indignant Look to be punished. The evenings usually, nevertheless, boozy, is also due to the straws. Because you will be drunk very quickly, so the theory goes.
The most well-known explanation of the phenomenon stating that the alcohol sucked happily through the Straw, no longer with the oral mucosa comes in contact with. The have a decisive advantage: The alcohol can pass through the mucous membranes in the mouth directly into the blood. In the stomach, enzymes break down a portion of the substance. The Portion, which migrates to the small intestine, must in addition to poison control by the liver. Only what is not sorted out, enters the bloodstream in the entire body and to the brain, where the noise arises.
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Flat glass, great effect
“Scientific studies on the question of whether the straw to drink faster, drunk on power, there isn’t,” says Michael Musalek, Medical Director of the Anton Proksch Institute in Vienna, one of the largest addiction clinics in Europe. However, the anatomy speaks against the common straw theory. On the mucous membrane of the mouth, the body could only take small amounts of alcohol, so Musalek.
The size ratios show that The mucosa in the mouth only 0.02 square meters. The small intestinal mucosa, through which the alcohol after the Swallow in the cycle is to be carried, with up to 200 square meters of 10,000-times larger – almost as big as half a basketball field. “The effect is achieved by the absorption through the mucous membranes of the mouth is neglected,” says Musalek.
But there is a different mechanism of action, which exposes the straw as a blue-maker – at least indirectly. “When you Drink the Aesthetics plays a important role,” explains Musalek. To drink a measure, it could be quite difficult, because the glass is heavy, large and unwieldy. “Because you have to be careful that it is not half to be running at the mouth over.” Accordingly, you drink slower. The glass shape affects drinking speed, shows a study from the year 2012.
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British researchers had nearly 160 test persons in each of two experiments, beer wheat glasses or beer mugs to drink with. The glass for wheat beer drinkers emptied their beer is 60 percent faster than the mug with a beer. The researchers explain the phenomenon so that the drinkers were able to evaluate in a wheat glass worse when it is half empty. The test persons have only had a later feel to have half of it done. Accordingly, you would set the glass more often.
Drunk of the water
Also, when you Drink with a straw, the speed is the Decisive factor. “Sucking makes the Drink light and creates a pleasant feeling in the mouth,” explains Musalek. Therefore, they often take several SIPS in a row. “You drink also faster and get drunk faster.” In addition, the drinking pace is encouraged by the high sugar content of Cocktails that are typically served with a straw. The sugar obscures the taste of high-proof alcohol and tempted to drink.
By the way: psychology has a contribution to the intoxication effect of alcohol. Who is convinced to drink alcohol, you feel even more drunk. In an Experiment from the year 2003 provided scientists drinks nearly 150 student with free. One half of the group was told that she drinks vodka and Tonic, the other that it has Tonic without alcohol in glass, in truth, no group got the alcohol. Nevertheless, the supposedly alcohol-drinking students were buzzed: The boys started with one of the scientists to flirt inside, the girls giggelten in front of him. Even in a memory test, the alleged alcohol group performed significantly worse.
“What is the precise quantity of alcohol is harmful, you can not say a flat rate,” explains Musalek. Delay of the noise is by eating adequate. Then more time, the alcohol in the digestive tract to take apart the body. Faster the intestine absorbs alcohol, however, if carbonic acid is contained in a drink. “As a General rule, any noise can cause damage,” says Musalek. The expert therefore recommends that, to enjoy alcoholic beverages, be aware of. “Then you can feel the narcotic effect in a timely manner,” he says. “You will be tired and will automatically waive the second glass.”
Conclusion: Drinking through a straw makes alone is not drunk more quickly. However, it increased in General, the drinking speed and intoxicated faster. So rather a couple of breaks and the cocktail evening for the longer enjoy.
Editors ‘ note: In earlier versions of this article, was formulated, the indication for liver-damaging amount of alcohol misleading. We have substantiated the information, and apologize for the error.