Q & A Thursday: do low carb beers help with weight loss?
Posted by kathryn in Uncategorized
One reader asks:
I’m trying to lose some weight. Recently I’ve started drinking low carb been, instead of full strength. But am I just wasting my money?
Low carb beer has rapidly gained in popularity over the last year, here in Australia. They’ve been cleverly marketed, but unfortunately I don’t think they’re a lot of help when trying to lose weight.
While they do contain less carbohydrate than normal beer, most of the kilojoules in Australian beers comes from they’re alcohol content. Therefore, the low carb beers only contain about 25 fewer kilojoules per 100ml than normal full strength beer:
- full strength beer: 150kJ per 100ml
- low carb beer: 123kJ per 100ml
- light beer: 100-ish kJ per 100ml
The best choice for weight loss and also general health is light beer.
19 July, 2007
Comments
Yeah, I just learned this today. Alcohol has more kilojoules than carbohydrates, who knew!
(Fats ~ 37kj/g, Carbs ~ 17kj/g, Protein ~ 17kj/g, Alcohol ~ 29kj/g.)
Yep, alcohol can be expensive when you’re trying to watch your weight. Plus of course it lets the defences down, meaning it’s easy to end up eating and drinking too much.
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