When dealing with chemotherapy-induced nausea--or any upset stomach--the American Cancer Society recommends eating dry foods such as pretzels and sipping on--you guessed it--ginger ale.

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Nibble crackers or sip ginger ale before getting out of bed.

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In preparation, Tubbs said Bush will take Fleet's phospho soda, a very concentrated solution that will be mixed with ginger ale or lemonade, to flush his system.

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In theory, ginger-containing products such as ginger ale, ginger snaps, and other products could reduce nausea, too, but only if they contained real ginger root, not just ginger flavoring.

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Ginger Ale by Bruce Cost is a bottled stunner.

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Soda fans misty for New England's classic Moxie, Kentucky's Ale-8-1 or Michigan favorite Vernors Ginger Ale can get their fix via Virginia Beach-based online retailer, the aptly named The Hard To Find Grocer.

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Additionally. we devoured Black Truffle and Comte Cheese Fritters with Lime Salt, Broiled Bone Marrow with Parsley-Lemon Gremolata, and creamed spinach all washed down with cherry yuzu soda, house made ginger ale and calamansi soda!

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But in the short term the only bright spots were America and in France, where a campaign to promote cognac as a long drink (with tonic, which is not, unlike soda water or ginger ale, really a natural accompaniment) raised sales for the second year running.

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