Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Diet Mixers


All the media this morning has been talking about a new study from Northern Kentucky University. The study is to be published in a journal called "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research," which really should be the title of my memoirs.
The study consisted of 16 young men and women who were given either Smirnoff mixed with Squirt, Smirnoff mixed with diet Squirt, or a placebo drink. I was under the impression that they didn't even sell Squirt anymore but apparently NKU had a couple cans they really needed to get rid of, or maybe they were just trying to find the most obscure mixer possible (they would have used Tab but they wanted something that didn't have caffeine).
The conclusion of the study was that "[a]t all times, the amount of alcohol measured in the volunteers’ breath was higher among those whose cocktails included diet drinks. And while the participants never reached the legal limit when they drank sugared soda with alcohol, they exceeded the safe limit for driving within 40 minutes if they had the diet cocktail." They also said the diet Squirt group apparently didn't feel any more drunk but performed worse at tasks, so diet mixers can be trouble...


WARNING: diet mixers may lead to waking up next to her.