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  • Should You Drink Alcohol on Low-carb Diet?

    If you’re trying to get your summer body ready with a low-carb diet, you may be wondering whether your Friday night visits to the local bar are still okay? These diets usually involve avoiding high carbohydrate containing foods like refined grains, starchy vegetables and legumes and instead consuming mostly healthy fats and proteins.

    There is a lot of confusion and conflicting views on the topic but ultimately there are some types of drinks that are worse than others for people on a low-carb diet.

    There are many types of alcohol that are high in carbohydrates, such as beer which is very starchy and those cocktails that contain desserts like ice-crean and softdrinks or sweets.

    Generally you should stay away from mixed drinks which typically have a high sugar content or high-carb  mixers.

    Whiskey, vodka, brandy, gin, tequila are examples of drinks that are low in carbs, spirits in general are okay for people on a low-carb diet however be careful what you mix it with. Avoid soft drinks and juice, rather opt for something like soda water.

    Source: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/alcohol-and-low-carb-diet

  • Trivial Alcohol Facts to Impress Your Friends

    1. The word brandy literally means “burnt wine” – having been derived from the Dutch word “brandewijn”

    2.There are 13 minerals that are essential for human life, and supposedly all of them can be found in alcohol.

    3. Even before we starting finding a worm in the bottom of our tequila bottles, it was tradition for a Gusano butterfyl caterpillar to be placed at the bottom of every bottle of Mezcal.

    4. An average bottle of Champagne contains approximately 49 million bubbles.

    5. Drinking a glass of milk can cause a person to blow a .02 on a breathalyzer test, and that is enough to cause legal issues in some American states.

    6. In order to make a bottle of wine, you will need to have approximately 600 grapes.

    7. McDonalds in many parts of Europe has alcohol on its menu,  but not in the US – which has some of the strictest drinking laws in the Western World.

    For more frivolous alcohol facts visit www.flask.com