Now don’t go start drinking to lose weight! I find it shocking that the women who drank moderately actually ate fewer calories from carbs. I wonder if this applies to men as well?
Light beer, 12 oz, 90 to 110 calories
Regular beer, 12 oz, 150 calories
Red wine, 5 oz, 120 to 150 calories
Rum or whiskey, 1.5 oz, 98 calories
Gin, 1.5 oz, 120 calories Vodka,
1.5 oz, 98 calories
-Can Alcohol Derail Your Diet?
MY COMMENT: Regular beer has approx. the same number of calories as soda.
No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together. It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy. -NY Times
MY COMMENT: This is one health claim that will be very difficult to prove despite mounds of evidence linking moderate alcohol consumption to reduced risk.
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