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" You know when you&amp;#039;ve got a wine hangover. Not only because you\u00A0can\u00A0remember necking a full bottle (and the rest) the night before, but that familiar pounding of the head is a surefire sign you made the rookie error of going\u00A0down the wine route.\u00A0 While some people swear the heaviness of red wine gives them a worse hangover, others insist the acidity in white wine plays havoc with their stomach the next day - so which colour wine really causes the worst hangover? Luckily, someone scientific has looked into the issue for us, and has provided the answer to this burning question.\u00A0According to\u00A0ABC,\u00A0Professor Steve Allsop\u00A0from the National Drug Research Institute in Perth, Australia, the strength of your hangover is\u00A0down to things called\u00A0congeners.\u00A0  These determine the colour and flavour of alcoholic beverages, meaning\u00A0the more congeners there are, the darker the alcohol is in colour.\u00A0Congeners are a &amp;quot;toxic byproduct of the fermenting process&amp;quot;, says\u00A0ABC, which lurk in your body the next day and make you feel like arse. The more alcohol you&amp;#039;ve consumed, the more congeners you&amp;#039;ll have - so the worse you&amp;#039;ll feel. Which leads us nicely back into the &amp;#039;which is worse, red or white?&amp;#039; debate. Following this logic, red wine - being significantly darker in colour than white - will make you feel more like you&amp;#039;ve been run over by a truck the next day than white wine will.  Having said that, congeners don&amp;#039;t dominate everything.\u00A0Because I don&amp;#039;t know about you but I\u00A0can think of plenty of hangovers I&amp;#039;ve had when all I drank was white spirits (gin, you devil, you). Obviously there are plenty of other factors, too, including how much you mixed, how quickly you drank, and how good your body is at metabolising alcohol. If we want to avoid hangovers altogether, maybe we should stop binge-drinking. But if you want to try and be a\u00A0bit\u00A0kinder to your body while enjoying a\u00A0drink, try drinking lighter coloured alcoholic drinks and interspersing them with lots of water. Dr Cosmopolitan over and out. Follow Cat on Twitter. Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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