| Low carb alcholic drinks have become quite a rage | | | | calories while 1 gram of sugar contains only 4. |
| in recent years just as low carb dieting has | | | | Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of |
| become more and more popular. While you won't | | | | wines to which sugar is added or in which some |
| find a drink with a label that reads that drinking it | | | | sugar during the process remains. These are |
| can actually help you lose weight, this is the | | | | sweet wines and they do contain more carbs |
| implication of the clever marketing that goes into | | | | than dry wines. However, many of us drink red |
| labeling alcohol as "low in carbs". | | | | wines and dry wines which naturally don't contain |
| This is clever for 3 reasons: | | | | a lot of sugar (carbs). You don't need a low carb |
| 1. It immediately paints the picture in the | | | | variety to get any additional benefit. |
| customer's mind that this drink is different than | | | | The story of vodka and other distilled alcoholic |
| other alcohol and will not make you fat as other | | | | drinks is even more grotesque. These don't |
| alcohol may. | | | | contain sugar at all (or very marginal amounts). |
| 2. It is not false marketing because the drinks are | | | | The claim of a carb-free vodka is very easily |
| low in carbs. | | | | met, it's the nature of vodka itself. |
| 3. It's not hard for the manufacturer to make | | | | Due to the high calorie value of alcohol, having |
| these drinks because alcoholic beverages are low | | | | lower carbs in your drink is not that important |
| in carbs to begin with. | | | | really. You're getting so many calories while |
| Yes, that no. 3 point is true: alcoholic drinks are | | | | drinking alcohol (which are empty of any value, |
| low in carbs to begin with. They've always been | | | | unlike carbs), that you will find it hard to not gain |
| low in carbs. The only difference is that they're | | | | weight. |
| now marketed as such in one of the most clever | | | | Low carb beers do exist (as regular beer can |
| (and legit) ploys I've ever seen. | | | | contain upward of 10 grams of carbs), but these |
| Here is the truth: | | | | are usually merely low calorie beers or lite beers. |
| - Wine and distilled drinks like vodka contain very | | | | The low-carb label is just clever markeing. You will |
| little carbs or are free of carbs completely. | | | | still be drinking lots of calories which may make |
| Although wine is made of grapes and these | | | | you fat. |
| contain sugar (which is a carb), the process the | | | | Don't let marketing blind you to the truth: alcohol |
| grapes go through to make the wine, turns that | | | | is high in empty calories and can make you fatter. |
| sugar into alcohol. While sugar is bad enough for | | | | While certain kinds of alcohol such as red wine do |
| you if you're trying to lose weight or not gain it, | | | | have some benefit (in small amounts), drinking |
| alcohol can be just as bad if not more. The | | | | habitually may still make you fat whether you're |
| reason is that 1 gram of alcohol contains 7 | | | | drinking the low carb variety or not. |