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Many people believe that eating before drinking will allow them to drink more without becoming intoxicated. Although food in the stomach will slow the absorption of alcohol to a degree, at the end of the day you'll be just as intoxicated. It will just take a little longer.

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the food in your stomach absorbs some of the effects of alcohol by keeping it out of the blood-stream

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Eating before - especially starches - slows the absorption of alcohol (note I said "slows", not "stops"). During also helps. There is an old expression: "If you're going to drink - eat".

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