Is the drink in your hand contributing to the bulge around your waist? Sorry to say, but your favorite wine is definitely doing just that. Any glass of wine contains the same amount of calories as a small piece of chocolate, and a pint of a larger one is equal to 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 eating 221 donuts! As if drinking wasn’t enough, think about the snacks that accompany the drink! These can 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 that accumulate when you choke on breakfast? Dealing with a hangover, that is. Most people eat a hangover. Choosing fried foods instead of the usual cereal bowl 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 fight the bulge in no time, but they will also suffer from many health problems, most of them serious.
Most women are blissfully unaware that just one or two drinks of regular wine will cause them to exceed 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 cringe at the mere thought of consuming a full glass of cream. However, these same people will not think twice about drinking two pints, which contain the same amount of calories. Either they are confused, ignorant, or really don’t care about counting calories, until they start to suspect that the toilet scale may be broken! But they still don’t blame the drink.