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Author: laura
Date: 09-29-03 10:27
CAN YOU TELL ME IF ALCOHOL CAN PUT ALOT OF WEIGHT ON YOU
Laura
Post Edited (09-29-03 10:28)
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Author: BFL Michelle
Date: 09-29-03 10:58
Calories put weight on you. So if your alcohol intake makes you exceed your calorie intake for the day, then yes, the alcohol is putting weight on you due to the calorie content.
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Author: miranda
Date: 09-29-03 11:31
If you drink a lot of alcohol, it can definitely put a lot of weight on you. A glass of wine (5 oz.) has about 100 calories, and a 12 oz. can of beer averages about 140 calories. Just 1 oz. of 80 proof hard liquor averages 65 calories. And then there's the stuff you mix in with the alcohol, which has even more calories. I think that calorieking.com has a lot of info on alcoholic drinks in its free food database.
I'm a wine lover, and have incorporated moderate amounts into my diet, but since alcohol calories are empty calories--practically no nutrients--I try to limit myself and spend my calorie allotment on real food. Not always successfully--for example, when my mother comes to visit, my alcohol consumption level goes WAY up.
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miranda
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"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: miranda
Date: 09-29-03 11:51
I don't know where you found the info about calories in alcoholic beverages, but it is massively erroneous, and vastly overstates the amount of calories which are actually in the beverages. People should go to Fitday.com and calorieking.com for reliable calorie info re alcoholic beverages.
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miranda
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"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: Jason Clark
Date: 09-29-03 12:02
Laura,
Alcohol is high is calories and also acts as an appetite stimulant. After a heavy night out we seem to crave something to eat!
The key is moderation.
Regards,
Jason Clark
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Author: Gary
Date: 09-29-03 12:15
I got the info from the government USDA site -
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Gary 360/175/175
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Author: Gary
Date: 09-29-03 12:17
Maybe different brands might have various amounts of calories, but the USDA site gives an average I guess, I used their info to figure the calories per ounce and multipled by 8 for the 8 oz amounts.
Gary 360/175/175
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Author: miranda
Date: 09-29-03 12:30
I checked the USDA info for white table wine, which I know to be 100 calories per 5 oz. glass. The USDA site gave a figure of 70 calories per 3.5 oz., which is completely consistent with my other sources--about 20 calories per oz. Your math is drastically off somewhere along the line.
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"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: Gary
Date: 09-29-03 12:46
......I checked their site again and it listed one can of beer as having 494.840 calories (I rounded it off to 500) and it listed table wine as having
79.310 calories per 3.5 oz, 79.310 divided by 3.5 = 22.66 calories per ounce, times 8 = 181.28 for an 8 oz glass. (I probally rounded that off also)
Anyhow, even though some brands may have different calorie levels, most diet programs acknowledge that alcohol in general is higher in calories than what dieters should have, not to mention the other reasons.
No offense to those who drink, but from what I have seen and read, alcohol and diet / fitness / health do not go together.
Gary 360/175/175
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Author: Gary
Date: 09-29-03 12:48
....ok, I saw where I may have goofed on the math as far as the wine calories, but 180 for just 8 oz of wine is still a lot, not to mention 500 for one can of beer.
Gary 360/175/175
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Author: miranda
Date: 09-29-03 15:28
I think you're looking at the wrong section of the report.
I don't share your views on alcohol, at least not when consumed in moderation. There is a lot of medical evidence that moderate alcohol consumption (emphasis on "moderate") can have positive health benefits for many people.
As for 180 calories being a lot of for just 8 oz. of wine (BTW, the average glass is 5 ounces, not 8)--well, it depends on the wine. :)
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"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: Doug
Date: 09-29-03 17:29
The site you list says a can of beer is 117.84 Calories, which is the same as 494 kilojoules. You are looking at the wrong row.
A calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 cc of water 1 degree Celsius. A Calorie, which is what is commonly used to measure how fattening food is, is 1000 calories or 1 kcal.
A joule is equal to the kinetic energy of a two-kilogram mass moving at the speed of one meter per second. It is also equivalent to 10,000,000 ergs or a Watt-second. It takes about 4.1 joules to make a calorie.
Doug 272/164/170
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Author: Spud
Date: 09-30-03 05:09
One thing I've noticed about alcohol with regards to weight loss is that it lowers my inhibitions which sometimes causes me to adopt a "to heck with it, I'm gonna eat whatever I want" type attitude. This might be more dangerous than the calories it contains.
spud
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Author: Eric
Date: 09-30-03 07:48
Holy crap!
You people are really fricken smart! Sheesh! If I went to the trouble of figuring all that crap out to determine whether I could drink a beer, I'd figure I had a serious drinking poblem.
Eric
I intend to live forever.....So far so good!
272/ /188 1.5 lbs. this week. I dare not say till the cast comes off
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