By Liza Hearon From Mashable

You can eat all the greasy food and guzzle all the water you want after a big night out, but it won’t prevent hangovers and no one is immune from them, Dutch and Canadian scientists said.

In a summary of their research released just after midnight on Friday in Amsterdam, which seems like a cruel time to tell us this, the authors of the study said it all boils down to the less you drink, the less hungover you get.

Canadian students were surveyed in an effort to find out if there really are people who are immune to hangovers, as 25% to 30% of the drinking population claims to be. In the survey of 789 students, they were asked about their drinking habits and to rate their hangover.

“The majority of those who in fact reported never having a hangover tended to drink less, perhaps less than they themselves thought would lead to a hangover,” said lead author Dr. Joris Verster of Utrecht University.

As for the Dutch students, 826 were asked to report their drinking and eating patterns and rate their hangovers from absent to severe (ouch). More than half reported eating after drinking, but no relevant difference in hangovers was found. Drinking water makes the dry mouth feeling better, but doesn’t actually make a difference.

The research was presented at the annual congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, which is on until Sept. 1.

The authors pointed out that more controlled trials are needed to understand hangovers, which obviously have a debilitating effect on both society and our souls.

“Whilst further research is needed, this new research tells us that the answer is simple – ‘drink less,'” said harbinger of doom Dr. Michael Bloomfield of University College, London.

IMAGE: This guy is going to be hungover no matter how much water he drinks.

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