It’s the festive season and you might have already reached the sobering realisation that having a few too many drinks can leave you feeling less than sparkling… So how do you avoid the worst of the morning-after effects while having your Champs and quaffing it too? According to this practical guide, there’s no magic bullet – not even the newfangled hangover pill… The obvious answer is to drink less – but if you want to indulge, the advice is to dilute your drinks with ice or mixers like soda or avoid dark-coloured drinks like red wine and whiskey because they contain more hangover-inducing molecules called congeners than clear alcoholic drinks. Another bit of advice is to eat eggs as they contain properties that slow the metabolism of alcohol. Egg-haters would argue it would probably help bring everything up…