Booze ~ To Summarise

It would seem that alcohol in itself is fattening, but only 90% as much as its total calorie content suggests, because 10% (ish) passes straight through the body.

I'm surprised that this %age remains constant, you'd think that once you became awash with the stuff, your system would get rid of it without feeling that it had to make any use of it, but if that's a fact, who am I to argue?

Apparently there are things called congeners that are more harmful than the alcohol itself and it's these that make you feel ill, rather than just dehydrated. They tend to be associated with dark colours, hence the generally accepted advice to stay on colourless drinks, but I'm not sure that a cocktail of vodka, gin and white rum would be more beneficial than, say, half a gallon of Moorhouse's Pride of Pendle, or Black Sheep or Bank Top Flat Cap (I could go on and on and on..).

Finally, anyone who is sober enough to drink large amounts of water before they go to bed, should go back to the pub until they're not.

EtU

PS ~ glad to see that JtE has got his font sizes fettled.