A little bit about alcohol and health
According to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association and Harvard's Nutrition Source, among others; one drink a day for women and no more than two drinks a day for men, can be health promoting. There are two, no three, very important caveats to that statement however.
1) a drink is the equivalent of 1.5 ounces of liquor, 12 ounces of beer, 4 ounces of wine... I challenge you, urge you, measure your wine if nothing else, because almost everyone drinks more. In fact, I almost always choose beer or the whiskey sour below, why? Well, because I apply the volumetrics concept to my alcohol too!
2) we, as a people, are notoriously bad at controlling the intake of things that make us feel good, food for example. There is a very fine line between health promoting and disease causing alcohol consumption. Here is the blurb for Walter Willett and Harvard:
Moderate drinking for many people can have real health benefits, but it's not for everyone. Those who don’t drink should not feel that they need to start. For more information, read "."
and 3) alcohol has calories! If you add the drink and do not take something away, in a month or two the pounds will begin to accumulate. It is the same with any recommendation you hear. If you are of a healthy weight and wish to maintain it, you cannot add new foods without compensating. So add something good and take away something less good.
Here is a little video about a sugar free tasty alcoholic beverage.
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