Do drinks have calories?

[duncan.brown]

i don't know...i drank tert-amyl alcohol

According to wikipedia: "TAA is a colorless liquid with a burning flavor and an unpleasant odor..."

Can't wait to see the BJCP judging guidelines on TAA-based beverages

 

[Tom R]

According to wikipedia: "TAA is a colorless liquid with a burning flavor and an unpleasant odor..."

Can't wait to see the BJCP judging guidelines on TAA-based beverages

I can't wait to watch the judges sampling it!

 

[madscientist451]

Sure beer has calories, but you need calories to do things:

 

[Panderson1]

I find if you stop eating, you don't really notice much of a weight change. yeah it has calories but you need them. Never really thought a whole lot about it tbh.

 

[Imhoppy]

Fact. There are no calories in an empty mug of beer. So drink up!

 

[SamLuna]

no just someone with an internet connection...

https://data.nal.usda.gov/dataset/usda-national-nutrient-database-standard-reference-legacy-release
and a third party program to use it.....


edit: i got into it, when i found although i wish i could live off beer. i needed to eat, but want to know what was in what, and what i ACTUALLY needed. so i could save money on food. with the help of that beauty, i walk out of the grocery store with a weeks groceries for $10-15....

Thanks you so much

 

[SamLuna]

In a funny way drinks actually have more calories than solids. Imagine a pint glass of grape juice. How fast could you drink it? 30 seconds maybe? If I just let you sit with it and drink at normal speed it might take a few minutes, but you would probably finish. You could also probably polish off a second glass if I gave you one.

Not let's imagine a pint glass full of grapes. First off, there is air between the grapes. Right off the bat we have shaved off 25% of the calories. How long would it take you to eat a pint of grapes? Chances are, you won't even finish. Let's say 3/4 of pint.

Now let's freeze the grapes. How many do you eat now until you are full? Half cup maybe?

1 pint of grape juice is 300 calories (and you can probably drink 2, so 600 calories). Eating the grapes until you were full would be 170 calories (300 calories x75% occupied volume x 75% eaten), and frozen grapes only 56 calories (300 calories x 75% occupied volume * 1/4 eaten). Drinks also tend to be more refined, so you also don't get all of the good vitamins/nutrients/fiber that you would from a whole food.

Thanks for your support

 

[SamLuna]

According to the doctors I listen to, the idea of balancing calories intake and calories consumption is actually bogus. In the Western world we all tend to eat much more than what we "burn" in physical activities. We should actually work like mules to balance things out.

What happens is that a healthy organism is simply able to get rid of excess food just like it is able to get rid of excess water. You don't need to count calories just like you don't need to count liquids intake.
Which doesn't mean that you can eat whatever you want without measure and without getting fatter, but means that we should, generally speaking, obsess more with living a healthy life (which includes beer and wine naturally) and obsess less with balancing calories or doing calories counting. Doing exercise makes you slim not because you burn calories (you would never burn enough of them), but because that exercise makes you healthy and makes your body well-regulated.

My unscientific and unproved opinion is, also, that drinking wine with fat food* (and a good shot of grappa thereafter) will actually make you slimmer because it will help a lot the digestion of fats. Those fat people eating too much in AYCE restaurant and drinking diet coke are fat also because they drink diet coke instead of good old wine with their meal. They will thus stress their digestion/elimination capabilities uselessly. Alcohol is very good at "unmounting" fat molecules. It does to fat what enzymes do to the starches in our wort, basically.

This I cannot prove scientifically, but the suspect will come to your mind when you compare the number of fat people in the US with, say, the number of fat people in Italy, Greece of Spain. For a US tourist in Italy the lack of obese people, when compared to the US, must be immediately apparent**. All those obese people are "victims" not just of their bad habits, but also of this calories-counting method of controlling obesity.

* I mean, drinking whisky or wine separately from eating doesn't help digestion and is a bad idea in general.

** This is commonly attributed to the virtues of "mediterranean diet", but the fact is, nobody in the Mediterranean does Mediterranean diet since decades. We overeat in Italy just like anywhere else, pasta, pizza, meat and cheese. Maybe we eat some less fried food than other peoples, maybe.

Thanks you so much

 

[Kickass]

This guy got you all. Well done @SamLuna.

My big takeaway is @bracconiere who I will always view as Dr. Bracconiere now. It’s amazing what a 1990 Microsoft notepad document can do to ones street cred.

 

[user 246304]

I dropped 50 lbs in 5 mos or so, without exercise as exercise is extremely difficult medically.

I stopped eating between breakfast and dinner, maybe a small snack of fruit, cheese, bread. I watch calories in and calories out, though now it’s habit and I no longer count. I have a beer every now and then, wine more often, with dinner. I don’t gorge. I enjoy good food. I do try to avoid troll. Truly empty calories.