Tip 114 - Drink water, not wine, as you eat
01 December 2009
Moira Howie, a nutritionist at Waitrose, points out that "Drinking wine with a meal can add up to between 300-400 extra calories, roughly equivalent to an extra ham sandwich a day. These can often be forgotten calories." Indeed they can, particularly after a heavy night on the Merlot. Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show that middle-class people are most at risk from drinking too much – 43% of white-collar workers are likely to exceed the daily recommended limit of alcohol units at least once a week compared with 31% for the working class. Simply drinking tap while you eat will bring the figures right down. Or warm green tea, Japanese style. Or fizzed water. I bought a snazzy Soda Stream last week and have halved my wine intake at a stroke (or a squirt).
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