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| 2012-11-27 |
| Last week a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that American adults drink alcoholic beverages in moderation.Calories from alcohol, the study concludes, make up 5 percent of the total calories consumed by American adults. What's more, few Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis. "On any given day, almost one-third of men and 18% of women aged 20 and over consume alcoholic beverages," the report concludes. That means just one in four Americans consume alcohol on any given day. And the group the report indicates as ingesting the largest amount of calories from alcohol--men aged 20-39--consume only 174 calories per day (8 percent of total average calories) from alcohol beverages. That's fewer calories than two average light beers. In spite of these modest totals, the study authors appear to be positioning their work as an important warning against alcohol consumption. "I think sometimes people forget completely that alcoholic beverages have calories," lead study author and The study authors are also explicit in linking alcohol to soda--that other scourge of public-health activists--at least in terms of the calories it contributes to Americans' diets. Social Engineering Through Food Regulation. There is no problem but they will make a solution anyway. We have to be saved from ourselves. Sit down, shut up, and quit ruining my day, ya Nanny Bastids. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #11 Frank, to add to that recipe: for the allergic out there... nobody is allergic to cactus juice except those allergic to alcohol itself. So salt lime and a shot. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-11-27 20:04 |
| #10 Alcohol has the effect of tamping down bacteria numbers especially in the small intestine, preventing SIBO, and thus raising health. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-11-27 17:33 |
| #9 Close the CDC; they apparently don't have any diseases to left to control. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-11-27 16:16 |
| #8 Frank G -- you're on to something w/that cocktail -- from yahoo: "There was a study conducted in South Australia that found that alcohol when mixed with diet or sugar free mixers are processed through the stomach much quicker which allows it to enter through the bloodstream faster in turn causing a more intoxicating effect..." |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-11-27 15:23 |
| #7 What's more, few Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis. The Few. The Proud. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-11-27 12:05 |
| #6 that's why I drink Jim Beam and Coke Zero. It's like a diet drink |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-11-27 10:57 |
| #5 rj, this is just more evidence of the patronizing superiority of the elite. We plebs are just too f'ing stupid to live with out their "benevolent" guidance. I react the same to all those "saviors" that went after smoking cause no one knew it was unsafe. The terms coffin nails and cancer sticks, which I first heard in the '50s, to the contrary. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-11-27 10:32 |
| #4 People forget alchoholic beverages have calories? How divorced from reality is this person. Have they ever heard of the term beer belly? It's pretty common and has the whole message packed right in there nice and tightly. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-11-27 10:25 |
| #3 I'm reeeeeally getting sick of the thousand little tyrants chipping away at freedoms for our own supposed good. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-11-27 09:23 |
| #2 What's a tufo, 1 year old bread? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2012-11-27 08:32 |
| #1 Silly peasants, let them eat tufo |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2012-11-27 05:56 |