A latest study has suggested that everything thought about preventing hangovers is likely to be wrong. Scientists said there is only a single sure way to prevent a hangover completely and that is abstaining from alcohol.

For the study, researchers from the Netherlands and Canada questioned over 1,600 university students from their respective countries. They did so to find out how eating or drinking water following heavy alcohol intake affects the likelihood of a hangover.

They surveyed 789 students from Acadia University in Nova Scotia regarding their drinking habits over the past 30 days. Researchers asked them about the number of drinks they had consumed, the timeframe of intake and the severity of their hangovers.

Utrecht University's Dr. Joris Verster, the study's lead author, said that people who showed off that they're someway ‘immune’ to hangovers may simply drink less than they believe.

This weekend, while presenting the study results at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology's annual congress in Amsterdam, Verster said that in general they found a pretty direct relationship that the more a person drinks the more likely he will get a hangover. Verster added, “The majority of those who in fact reported never having a hangover tended to drink less, perhaps less than they themselves thought would lead to a hangover”.

Researchers got the evidence proving so by calculating the estimated blood alcohol concentration in Canadian students, the ones who reported experiencing hangovers, in contrast to those who didn't.