Carbonation gets the alcohol into your system faster anyway so this just compounds matters. It happens because your body won't recognize say the rum & diet coke as food & it'll shoot it into the bloodstream faster. "After drinking, the participants’ BrAC was tested. Those who’d imbibed with regular soda had BrACs that peaked at an average of at .077 grams per 210 liters (BrAC measures the level of alcohol per liter of breath, rather than per a given volume of blood as blood alcohol content does; as represented here, the two measures can be compared more readily). Those who’d drank diet soda, on the other hand, peaked at .091—the difference, in many jurisdictions, between driving legally and a DUI charge."

"The research also prompts an entirely different question—why do diet mixers increase intoxication in the first place? The researchers believe it’s because the body recognizes regular sodas (which include sugar) as food, which slows down the rate of alcohol absorption into the blood. Diet sodas, on the other hand, only include aspartame, which the body doesn’t treat as food, so the alcohol mixed in gets absorbed much more quickly"


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 41/?no-ist

Meh. Needle.

vladimir wrote:Meh. Needle.

Don't like 'em fortunately. There's always booze enemas & you can snort that new powdered alcohol - Palcohol.

i prefer diet coke over regular coke as i dont like all the sugar in the regular,
my usual mixer is orange juice for my vodka though as its good for ya obv....

Orange juice is not good for you

sugar content

vodka, on the other hand...

All coke tastes like shite, imho, always preferred apple juice/cider/ red wine

for me Cider is my first choice drink, then its Vodka, i never drink beer in England, i do in Cambodia but its usually only my first few drinks i cant drink it all night, bloats me up

I usually mix Jack with diet coke or lately ginger ale, never noticed a difference getting drunk quicker on diet

If I could only find a good cider, I'll have to take a trip to England soon

Vodka redbull baby! Then I can blame either next morning.
Now where are you Jamie boy? Went to look for you on the square and after a fee drinkd with the rebels for no apparent reason some unknown crazy mofo shaped as you are came in with intend to kill me.. boss lady had to shelter me behind the bar.
Tine to get to work to clean the scum boy.

I’m a fan of rum and Coke Zero.