90% of people have no idea how many calories are in a pint of beer, according to a British study.
A lot of people enjoy a good glass of wine or a beer on occasion … but very few know how many calories those glasses correspond to.
A study on 2,000 adults set up by the Royal Society for Public Health thus highlighted the fact that 3/4 of the people questioned did not know (or had a false idea) of the number of calories in a glass of wine. And 90% of them didn’t know the number of calories in a pint of lager.
However, an adult who drinks assimilates 10% of his calories through alcohol. In each unit of alcohol (which corresponds to a small glass of wine), there are approximately 56 calories. The recommended daily allowance is 2,500 calories for an adult male and 2,000 calories for a female.
Knowing the caloric content of a drink is therefore not uninteresting: a pint of beer contains 180 calories, which is equivalent to a slice of chocolate cake, which is about as much as a large glass. of white wine (185 calories). These drinks are much more caloric than a double vodka tonic (143 calories, the equivalent of a donut) but much less than a pina colada: this cocktail made from rum and fruit juice contains 644 calories, it that is, as much as a Big Mac!
Experts wish to warn about the risks of overweight or obesity linked to alcohol consumption. Calories are not only ingested at the time of consumption, there are indeed still effects the day after, mainly due to lower activity.
Informing people could encourage them to consume fewer calories, since according to the same study, when bar menus highlight the number of calories in drinks, customers tend to consume 400 calories less than those who do not. have not been informed.
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