If your mixing with a diet drink, you could be drunker than you think.Photo / Thinkstock
Adding a diet mixer to your alcohol could be getting you drunker, faster, researchers say.
In a soon-to-be-published study, researchers mixed vodka with a lemon/lime soda. Some mixers were standard, sugar-packed varieties, others were a diet variety.
They found blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was 18 per cent higher in those
who consumed the diet drink compared to those who guzzled the sugar-filled beverage.
"Alcohol, consumed with a diet mixer, results in a higher BAC as compared to the same amount of alcohol consumed with a sugar-sweetened mixer," said Dr Cecile Marczinski, the cognitive psychologist who wrote the study.
Sugar affects the absorption of alcohol in to the bloodstream from the stomach, Medical Daily reported.
