We all know, but now there's something to back it up.

As we’ve grown older, we’ve (at times) wised up slightly and often ‘line’ our stomachs before a night of drinking. There are far too many variables for us to know ourselves whether it actually makes a difference or not, so thankfully the BCC have put the theory to the test. The BBC study took two people for a night out. One lined his stomach with a modest dinner and the other left her belly empty and open for sheer and utter disaster. The theory of eating is that alcohol is absorbed into the body not in the stomach, but rather in the small intestine. If your tummy is full of yummy food, it takes longer for the alcohol to reach the intestine. The two troopers taking part in the experiment breathalysed themselves throughout the evening. One participant had an alcohol reading of 44 just twenty minutes after her first glass of wine. This was almost double to the other participant's 23. An hour later the first person's reading dropped to 32 but the second person was more than 50 percent less at just 15. So yeah, eatin’ may be cheatin’ but being twice as drunk as your mate is just asking for disaster. Have a pizza before you head on out later alright?