It Has You Making Trips to the Bathroom—or Regretting Your Trip to the Pizza Place
Alcohol is a potent diuretic, so those after-dinner cocktails can send you tiptoeing to the restroom several times during the night. And that late-night slice of pizza or order of cheese fries you had in an effort to soak up the booze and prevent a hangover (which, sad to say, doesn't work anyway—the alcohol has long since gone into your bloodstream) can trigger acid reflux when you lie down, keeping you from falling asleep.
Published 06/26/2013
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