Came
Came
There are slight differences depending on the type of wine you drink. A glass of red wine gives you about 178 calories; the pink one, about 174; and the white one, around 185. As for the variety, choose a dry wine better, because the fruity one contains more sugar. Think of a glass of wine as two chocolate digestive cookies. You will need 30 minutes walking to burn it.
Beer
Beer
The queen of the terraces. A well-drawn reed serves as an excuse to tell our sorrows, joys and fears to our friends. But, do you know that this drink contains about 150 calories? The thing increases if we take a pint of 33 cl, here we will already be adding about 200 calories. And we will need 42 minutes of walking to burn it.
Digging
Digging
If beer is the star of the terraces, cava is undoubtedly the undisputed king of great celebrations. How to start the new year if not with a glass of this bubbly drink in hand? Do not banish it from your life, but you should know that a glass (150 ml) is equivalent to about 111 calories (about 23 minutes walking).
Vermouth
Vermouth
Vermouth is a wine marinated in herbs of Italian origin that is usually drunk before eating. It can be black or white. Our grandparents used to drink it and now it has become fashionable again for the aperitif. An 80 ml glass (the classic to serve it) provides about 128 calories. Like a cookie and a half of chocolate, and a 27 minute walk to burn it.
Liqueur
Liqueur
We understand by liquor that drink with alcohol that normally contains fruit, herbs or spices, although it can also be sweeter. For example, a 50 ml shot of peach liqueur is about 113 calories; and if it is marc, 120. For a glass of sweet anise (50 ml) you would add about 149 calories (32 minutes walking or 20 dancing with energy).
Mojito
Mojito
The mojito is one of the most popular cocktails. It appeared in Cuba and is prepared with rum, brown sugar, lemon or lime, mint or spearmint and soda. A glass of this drink gives you around 200 calories; or what is the same, two cookies and a little more chocolate that burn dancing –with intensity– for about 20 minutes.
Combined with alcohol
Combined with alcohol
Here the sugar from alcohol joins with that of soft drinks. If we add about 25 ml of liquor to the soft drink (a standard one has 100 calories per 200 cc), you will be "feeding" your body with about 120 more calories. Think that to burn them you should go for a brisk walk for about 35 minutes.
Cocktail
Cocktail
The cocktail is an alcoholic drink that is prepared by mixing liqueurs with fruit juices and other ingredients such as aromatic herbs, spices, vegetables … There is an almost infinite number of cocktails, but the most common are the margarita (219 calories), bloody Mary (115 kcal), Long Island iced tea (780 kcal), cosmopolitan (400 kcal) or piña colada (300 kcal). A cosmo is an 85 minute walk …
High-proof drinks
High-proof drinks
Drinks like whiskey, vodka or rum are classified as high alcohol. Always take them in moderation and, for your information, a 50 ml glass of rum has 117 calories; one of vodka, 150; a whiskey, 112; and a tequila, 133. Almost half an hour walking.
You have gone out to dinner, you have controlled yourself with the dishes you have ordered - and see that, according to Brian Wansink's book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, in a group we can eat 75% more than if we are alone - , but then come the cups and you forget you're also add calories. ERROR.
How many times have we deluded ourselves thinking that of "total, wine comes from grapes and is fruit" or "beer has barley, so it would fall within the family of cereals." A part of these phrases are true (wine comes from grapes and beer has barley), but no, neither a red wine is a fruit nor a cane is a cereal. Alcoholic beverages have "empty" calories, meaning that they do not provide us with anything nutritious. For this reason, it would be best to reserve these glasses for special occasions or take them into account in the total calculation of what we have eaten and drunk.
How much fattening do alcoholic beverages?
To give you an idea of what you put into your body every time you drink, in this gallery of images we have selected the most common drinks and we detail how many calories each one has. We are not telling you to completely dispense with these types of drinks, but we do tell you what you are drinking so that you also take it into account.
Two cookies and a 30 minute walk!
Except for nutritionists and some nutrition experts, few people know the calories in food by heart. It would be more! But it is good to have an idea of what some common foods or drinks mean, since that way we can make better decisions.
For this reason, in the image gallery, we tell you what some drinks would equal in cookies (although it is not an exact comparison in nutritional terms) and how many minutes of exercise it would take you to burn those calories. So you can remember something better - it helps us - and you can assess the situation when you feel like ordering another round.
And if, even so, one day you go overboard and find yourself fatal, we will tell you how to get rid of your hangover quickly and recover in record time.
