Drinking tips: expelling what you ate

I came from a drinking session last night and when I got home, I realized: expelling the foods you ate during a heavy drinking session is not bad at all.

Sure, you will feel terrible for throwing out all the delicious food you just ate. All those sumptuous beer match foods that cost you and your buddies hundreds if not thousands of pesos going to waste is just unacceptable. This, however, has a good site to it. Let us discuss a few subjects in medicine.

I heard that it is our pancreas, and not just our liver, that gets worked up during heavy drinking. A speaker in a television show, a medical doctor, said that our pancreas can process only one type of food at a time. So drinking beer (a malt-based beverage) and eating lots of fatty, oily, and grilled food will make our pancreas work overtime. The doctor said, this increased activity by the gland will cause it to burst come sleeping time, that is if you go to bed shortly after the heavy eating and drinking session. This will result to what we Filipinos refer to as bangugngot or (if I remember it right) acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis.

On the other hand, if the foods and drinks you had during happy hour goes back up and out where it came in to, don't feel sorry. Feel relieved that your pancreas is freed from the torture and you are insured that you get to live another day.

Happy drinking.

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Disclaimer: I did not expel all the food and drinks that my buddies spent hundreds if not thousands on last night. And not even this morning.

Great outdoors - walking in the rain

Right now, the Philippines is experiencing rains... It is rainy season with moments of summer...

During college, a friend and I were contemplating on how we could cross from one building to next to attend our classes. He was deep in thought while I was busy observing the quality of female students when he said, "It will be much better for us to walk through the drizzle than run as fast as we can to the next building."

An then he continued on to explain that walking through the drizzle or even light rain means that our bodies will get in contact with fewer droplets than when we run.

Here is the "scientific" explanation to his concept:

You have 10 droplets lined up level with one another 1 foot apart in a straight line moving downward at the same speed. When you walk through them as they drop, you will only get hit by one or two of them. But if you run through them, you will hit about half of them before they hit the ground.

Similarly, you hit a few droplets walking through a rain than running across it.

In a heavy downpour, however, the volume of droplets is so large that running will be the most prudent course of action.

I therefore conclude that the speed at which a person should traverse an open are during the rain is directly proportional to the amount of downpour. As such, light rain will required slow speed and heavy rain requires racing speed.

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Potty time - healthy waking

There are times that we wake up later than planned that we eventually jump off our beds and run around the house trying to be in the office or in school on time.

My teacher in high school once told me that one should wake up slow.

Jumping off from bed from a restful sleep is similar to taking your car into a screeching start early in the morning. Repeating this practice quite often will lead to an unscheduled overhaul of your car's engine.

The same thing happens to our hearts when we jump off our beds. From a peaceful pace, the heart is forced to beat faster in the blink of an eye when we jump off excitedly. Like the car engine, do this more often and you'll need an open heart surgery sooner that expected.

Have a healthy day!