Your drinks may be making you gain more weight than you think ...
Drinking one beer each night adds 1,000 calories a week, resulting in a net gain of 15 pounds every year, according to the Middle Tennessee State University Health Promotion website.
To prevent yourself from facing this fate, check out the calorie counts for some popular drinks.
Beer nutritional value according to the Livestrong website, per 12oz. serving:
- Bud Light: 110 calories
- Budweiser: 145 calories
- Busch Light: 95 calories
- Coors Light: 104 calories
- MillerCoors Miller Genuine Draft: 143 calories
- Pabst Blue Ribbon: 153 calories
Wine, per 4 oz. serving: 100 calories
- Dessert wine: 225 calories
Liquor (per 1 oz. serving)
- 80 proof gin, rum, vodka or whiskey: 50 calories
- 100 proof gin, rum, vodka or whiskey: 60 cal
- Schnapps: 100 calories
These values do vary slightly by brand and flavor of the alcohol. As a note, while light beers usually have less calories, they also have a lower alcohol content.
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