Holy Batman! Alcohol and calories!

[ihearyou2]

From the USDA:

Discussion
Alcoholic beverages supply calories but few essential nutrients (see table 16). As a result, excessive alcohol consumption makes it difficult to ingest sufficient nutrients within an individual’s daily calorie allotment and to maintain a healthy weight. Although the consumption of one to two alcoholic beverages per day is not associated with macronutrient or micronutrient deficiencies or with overall dietary quality, heavy drinkers may be at risk of malnutrition if the calories derived from alcohol are substituted for those in nutritious foods.

The majority of American adults consume alcohol. Those who do so should drink alcoholic beverages in moderation. Moderation is defined as the consumption of up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men. Twelve fluid ounces of regular beer, 5 fluid ounces of wine, or 1.5 fluid ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits count as one drink for purposes of explaining moderation. This definition of moderation is not intended as an average over several days but rather as the amount consumed on any single day.

Beverage Approximate Calories Per 1 Fluid Oza Example Serving Volume Approximate Total Caloriesb

Beer (regular) 12
12 oz
144

Beer (light) 9
12 oz
108

White wine 20
5 oz
100

Red wine 21
5 oz
105

Sweet dessert wine 47
3 oz
141

80 proof distilled spirits
(gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 64
1.5 oz
96

[NancysSummerSip]

IHOP, you DO understand where you are posting, right?

So you know you are preaching to the (drunk) choir?

[ihearyou2]

That's why I'm posting it here, I waned to see REACTION since most of the ladies like looking fit...

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If monks can live on beer for a month why can't I?

[KaraBoo]

Jan 21, 2011 12:36:14 GMT -5 ihearyou2 said:

From the USDA:

80 proof distilled spirits
(gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 64
1.5 oz
96

Woohoo!! My drink of choice is the least amount of calories!!

[NoNamePerson]

Jan 21, 2011 12:40:41 GMT -5 ihearyou2 said:

That's why I'm posting it here, I waned to see REACTION since most of the ladies like looking fit...

There was a time when I drank, I didn't eat. When I ate, I didn't drink. Worked wonders for keeping the weight in check.

[Deleted]

There was a time when I drank, I didn't eat. When I ate, I didn't drink. Worked wonders for keeping the weight in check.

Flashbacks of my 20's right there.
One of my sister's swore by it, and she has always been a rail.

[whiskmav]

Holy....


BEARS