Gin is the in - style drink of choice for everyone from hipster and city deceiver to the yachting grade , nowadays . So , if you recently come across the headline “ Drinking knock rummy can speed up your metabolism , scientists say , ” you ’d probably like to grease one’s palms a shot for the obscure Latvian researchers who made the discovery .

However ,   the write up has been both didder and stirred . According tonews news report , the work find that a shot of gin can speed up your metabolic process and can   be used to fire off calories and mislay free weight . The researchers from the University of Sigulda in Latvia purportedly published their findings in the journal Food & Nature , where they concluded this health boot was probable to be associated with gin ’s antioxidant - plenteous Genista raetam berries .

subject author Professor Thisa Lye reportedly said : “ Consumption of gin leave in a marked increase in metabolic rate , which indicates the life may have a slimming effect on the eubstance . ”

Before you crock up out the tonic weewee and a lemon , there ’s something very off about all this .

We snooped around a turn and found that the tether generator , Professor Thisa Lye , does n’t look on PubMed   –   an on-line database of references and abstracts on life sciences studies . A quick lookup on Google also show that the University of Sigulda and   the daybook Food & Nature do not   exist , other than in news stories about this weightloss - miracle discovery .

The story first pucker steam throughan article on Yahoo Style , originally written and syndicated by Prima magazine , bring out on April 1 ( trace hint).If you click through to the original article onPrima.co.uk , it comes with a   middling clear warning at the top of the floor : “ Only jest . In case you had n’t guessed , this is the April Fool ’s jest we very much wish well was true ! ”

When Yahoo News published it , however , it was n’t so apparent the level was a joke . From then onwards , stake in gin is at an all time eminent and good word at an all time low , as a fair few websites jumped on the boozy bandwagon and did n’t take account that it   was a wannabe viral April Fools ' joke .

Sorry to do this to you , cotton gin . We ’ll still be your pal .