{"id":2821,"date":"2012-11-27T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:57:36","slug":"drinking-alcohol-and-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Drinking (alcohol) and weight gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short article in the NY Times this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/20\/the-not-so-hidden-calories-from-alcohol\/?nl=health&amp;emc=edit_hh_20121127\" target=\"_self\">The study, which used nationwide data collected between 2007 to 2010, found that the average adult consumes about 100 calories worth of alcohol daily \u2014 an amount that for many people could contribute to excess weight gain. In fact, the study found, many Americans consume far more than 100 calories of alcohol a day: 20 percent of men and 6 percent of women drink more than 300 calories worth daily, roughly the amount in two 12-ounce cans of beer or two-and-a-half glasses of wine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Nielsen and her team found that on a given day, one third of men and<br \/>\n18 percent of women have at least one alcoholic drink. All told, among<br \/>\nthose who drink, alcohol accounted on average for about 16 percent of<br \/>\ntheir daily calories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">******<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Race and ethnicity seemed to have little influence on the amounts<br \/>\nconsumed. But income played a role: the highest earners also had the<br \/>\nhighest levels of imbibing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short article in the NY Times this morning. The study, which used nationwide data collected between 2007 to 2010, found that the average adult consumes about 100 calories worth of alcohol daily \u2014 an amount that for many people could contribute to excess weight gain. In fact, the study found, many Americans consume far more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6304,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}