Is the drink in your hand contributing to the bulge around your waist? Sorry to say, but your favorite wine is definitely doing exactly that. Any glass of wine contains the same number of calories as a small piece of chocolate, and a larger pint matches the calories in a packet of salty potato chips.
Selling you a drink at a restaurant, bar or club is part of UK business. Almost all food companies have alcoholic beverages on the menu because the average UK resident consumes over 2000 kcal through alcohol every month!
The statistics are staggering, having a drink five times a week will provide the drinker with up to 44,200 kcal over a period of one year – that’s the equivalent of having 221 donuts! As if drinking weren’t enough, think about the snacks that accompany the drink! These could be anything on the menu: pork products, salty nuts, French fries, fish, you name it.
Most drinkers know that a binge drinking session will almost always lead to a sumptuous breakfast the next morning. But what does the drink have to do with the calories accumulated by gorging on breakfast? Dealing with hangovers, that is. Most people eat a hangover. Choosing fried food instead of the usual bowl of cereal adds up to 450 kcal to the total number of calories collected the night before.
Many UK companies work with the Department of Health to conduct health surveys to monitor general public health and well-being. The reports are alarming. The National Health Service warns that not only will heavy drinkers have to battle excess weight in a short time, but they will also suffer from many health problems, most of them serious.
Most women are blissfully unaware that just one or two glasses of regular wine will get them over their daily calorie limit and can account for about 20 percent (estimated at 370 kcal) of the daily calorie count recommended by health experts .
Many people will flinch at the very thought of consuming a full glass of cream. However, these same people won’t think twice about drinking two pints, which contain the same amount of calories. Either they’re confused, they’re ignorant, or they don’t really care about counting calories – until they start to suspect that the toilet scale may be broken! But they still won’t blame the drink.