I thought it was Chocolate Donuts...
Posted on 01/02/2021 6:17:11 AM PST by mylife
Let's get this out of the way immediately: Too much alcohol in any form is bad for your health. After all, alcohol itself contains roughly zero health benefits, drinking it in excess over time could result in liver damage, and further insidious side effects include cancer risk, osteoporosis, infertility, weight gain, depression, prolonged slurred speech, pancreatitis, and heart disease. Whether you're drinking lower-alcohol beer or higher-alcohol spirits or the fanciest of French wines, overdoing it can wreak havoc on your body over time.
That doesn't mean all alcoholic beverages are created equal, of course. A light, low-calorie beer will likely be better for you than its better-tasting craft counterpart that contains 450 calories. And if you're a fan of the hard stuff, know that sipping your favorite rum neat in a small glass invariably won't be as bad for your body as drinking the same amount of rum mixed in a classic daiquiri that comes loaded with a high dose of simple syrup. (A single ounce of the syrupy goop contains more than five teaspoons of added sugar. As we've reported in the past, too many added sugars will lead to more belly fat, raise your blood pressure, affect the way your brain functions, cause your skin to sag, and double your risk of dying from heart disease.)
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When winter and cold weather hits its like my body abhors any alcohol except a little red wine now and again. Warmer and hotter weather is a reversal and I like some drinks in moderation and especially beer after a hard days work with a meal.
We didn’t. I died a little on the inside when they closed our local “Margaritas”.
Beer is liquid bread.
I feel a cold coming on.....
Vodka, it’s what’s for dinner.
I've heard from reliable sources that Coors is the breakfast of champions.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
I thought it was Chocolate Donuts...
Agreed. It was the beer that made Belushi fat, not the donuts. Man could that guy pole vault, those 76 Olympics wouldn’t be the same without him. Too bad he later struggled as an actor.
Precisely Mandrake!
The irony is, look who is on the cover of the box of Donuts.
He lost me at this point. I consumed voluminous amounts of beer in my misspent youth, and for a while after. I never saw a 12 oz beer that had 450 calories. Is he talking about a 36 oz beer? I assume light beer aka donkey piss, is better for you because it's so crappy you can't drink it
Currently I consume two or three shots of good bourbon neat each night before dinner.
Well I did some serious freaking in my youth, I'm pretty sure that all the cigarettes I smoked with the alcohol was a greater risk.
Propaganda put out by a big eastern syndicate.
I dunno but I do have a cigar with Rum and black coffee {mixed} or a 12 year old scotch and black coffee {back} once a day, every day.
On rare celebrations, I'll do two {drinks, not cigars}, but it has to be a real celebration, not just a day that ends with a 'Y'.
I had to go look for it and couldn't find it, but I found this one:
The Spirits of Our Forefathers"
They said every man, woman, and child drank 8 ounces of alcohol a day, which comes out to over 22 gallons of ethyl alcohol a year! Today, per capita consumption in the USA of ethyl alcohol averages about 2 gallons per capita.
Caveat-I assume they are taking gallons of 200 proof alcohol, not the volume of liquor, beer, or wine. Hell, many people go through gallons of beer every few days, and in some cases in a single day! So I made an assumption.
Still only about 80 proof.
I’m pretty sure 8 ounces of 190 proof in a relatively short time would be fatal for most people. That would be 18 ounces of 80 proof.
There’s always some ‘killjoy’ comes along isn’t there?
I think they are talking per capita per day back then, and was the total amount of ethyl alcohol (200 proof) that could be extracted from the total number of “alcoholic drinks” in a day.
I can say from first hand experience that drinking a few shots of pure ethyl alcohol certainly won’t kill you, and spread over a day in beer, wine, spirits and what not...granted, it it seems completely extreme to us, but according to the authors...was the practice.
But I fully admit I am extrapolating...because 8 ounces of hard cider a day or 8 ounces of beer a day for every man, woman and child wouldn’t be much at all because the population was much smaller then.
Just trying to noodle it out...I could be wrong!
Max alcohol by normal distillation is 95%. It takes a difficult chemical process or a molecular sieve to get 99.9%.
Something like 22 ounces of beer per day (as opposed to one sitting) likely didn’t damage people who worked hard, and likely safer than water in many locations.
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