, 1935-06-02
Liquor Vary in Value
AS Diet Benefits
By DIR oRR SHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical Association.
and Of Hygeia. the Health Magazine

Editor. Journal OF the American Medical Association.
and Of HygeiA- the Health Magazine
one OF the most frequent questions sent to me Of
late has been whether use of alcoholic liquors tends
to put on much weight, and whether they have any
special value in the diet.
People do not take ALCOHOLIC beverages with the
idea OF putting on weight. They are taken for their
that they give. and because they seem to be a pleas
ant way to quench thirst.
Alcoholic beverages usually are divided into malt
liquors. wines. and distilled liquors. The various
types differ in their contributions to increase weight
and in the amount Of alcohol they contain.
Malt liquors usually have less alcohol than DO wines
or distilled liquors. but they have a much higher
amount of carbohydrate and protein.
In many foreign countries. beers and aleS are taken
as part of the meal and help to provide the total
number Of calories required BY the individual for the
day.
In this country far too frequently these liquors are
taken between meals. Because they add a consider
able amount Of calories to those usually taken. they
tend to put on weight.
Light beer usually contains less carbohydrate and
more alcohol than dark beer. Book beer Is made with
more malt and hops per barrel. and therefore con-
tains more alcohol and carbohydrates than ordinary
beer.
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using another type Of yeast requiring higher fermen-
tation and storage temperatures. These produce a
different flavor.
These forms OF malt liquors usually contain more
alcohol and carbohydrates than ordinary beers. In
general. cup or half-pint Of book beer provides $50
calories as compared with 10 calories for lager beer
and $50 calories for ale.
Munich and Pilsner beers are a little richer than
ordinary beer in Galleries.
Wines vary according to the country in which they
are produced. and also according to the kind Of
grapes used in production.
Wines usually contain two to four times the per-
cent of alcohol found in beer, but they are much
lower in carbohydrates and are usually taken In
smaller quantities.
For example, a wine glass, or about one-tenth OF
a quart, OF ordinary California wine provides 70
Galleries. Sweet wines. such as muscatel- port. and
sherry, provide between l4O and ITO calories to the
glass.
Champagne provides from IS 10 100 Galleries a glass.
The amount Of alcohol in such a glass Of wine is 10
per cent by weight as compared with I to 8 per cent
BY weight for beers.
Whisky is proportionately much stronger in alcohol,
running from 80 TO IS per cent by weight and pro-
viding 50 TO rs calories for a small glass. Cocktails
OF all kinds vary according 10 materials Put in them.
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