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Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

Sep 29, 2016 17:16 IST
No matter how many nutrition labels you read or burgers you avoid, till the time you don't get a hang of how many calories you're supposed to consume versus how many you actually consume, you won't come anywhere close to your ideal weight.

Besides a good diet and exercise, you must also be weary of a few other factors: sleep, smoking and you alcohol intake. 6-7 hours of sleep keeps your metabolism in check, your mind alert and stress levels down. Smoking is just a bad habit you need to turn your back on and alcohol comes with no guide that tells you how many empty calories come packed on a Friday night.

Labelling liquor bottles with nutritional information could be one way of helping consumers keep off the extra calories but another way is to understand which type of alcohol is high on calories, carbs, and sugar.

Using data from the United States Department of Agricultural, we've listed 8 of the most common alcoholic drinks enjoyed by most millenials and their calorific intake.
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    No matter how many nutrition labels you read or burgers you avoid, till the time you don't get a hang of how many calories you're supposed to consume versus how many you actually consume, you won't come anywhere close to your ideal weight.

    Besides a good diet and exercise, you must also be weary of a few other factors: sleep, smoking and you alcohol intake. 6-7 hours of sleep keeps your metabolism in check, your mind alert and stress levels down. Smoking is just a bad habit you need to turn your back on and alcohol comes with no guide that tells you how many empty calories come packed on a Friday night.

    Labelling liquor bottles with nutritional information could be one way of helping consumers keep off the extra calories but another way is to understand which type of alcohol is high on calories, carbs, and sugar.

    Using data from the United States Department of Agricultural, we've listed 8 of the most common alcoholic drinks enjoyed by most millenials and their calorific intake.
  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    1. Sparkling Wine

    There's no kind of alcohol you can have absolutely guilt-free but if you had to pick one, this would be your vice. Sparkling wine is a fruity kind of wine which is often confused with champagne because of its fizzy nature. Prosecco is also a kind of sparkling wine and is made across many European countries. Cava, its Spanish counterpart is cheaper and often better. There's also Sekt, German sparkling wine you could give a try.

    100ml of sparkling wine has a little over 200 calories

  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    2. Distilled Alcohol (80 proof) - Vodka, Gin & Whiskey

    What is proof? In the United States, proof stands for twice the percentage of alcohol in a particular bottle. So if a bottle of vodka is 100 proof then it's got 50% alcohol content and the rest is water.

    100ml of vodka, gin or whiskey has 231 calories

  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    3. Beer - Light

    Did you know that apart from being the most widely consumed alcohol, beer also is the 3rd most popular drink after water and tea?

    (Read More: 10 Well-Known Facts About Beer)

    1 bottle or can of beer ( 354 ml) has 103 calories
  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    4. Red Wine

    Wine is the magic your soul needs! While this might be true in spirit, it's probably a good idea to check how many calories a glass of red wine has before taking to the bottle.

    1 glass/serving of wine has 122 calories

  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    5. White Wine

    Some like it red but some like it icy cold and white. White wine sangria is a summer favourite and a girl's best friend on a homely Friday night.

    1 glass/1 serving/147ml of wine has 121 calories

  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    6. Beer - Regular

    Be it game night or a bright and sunny Sunday, it's incomplete without a keg of cold beer.

    1 bottle/355 ml of regular beer has 206 calories
  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    7. Coffee Liqueur

    The bitterness of coffee liqueur and the sharp sweetness of vanilla ice cream can work magic for your taste buds. But how far does it throw off your diet?

    52 ml of coffee liqueur has 175 calories
  • Calories Count: The Best & Worst Alcoholic Drinks for Your Diet

    8. Distilled Alcohol (100 proof) - Vodka, Gin and Whiskey

    You know the difference between an inexpensive and expensive bottle of vodka? Besides the quality and taste is the alcohol content. It's also probably why you get drunk much quicker on expensive alcohol. You also have a fewer number of drinks - depends how you want to see this.

    42ml (a little over a small drink) of distilled alcohol with 100 proof has 124 calories
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