Alcohol consumption

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What is Alcohol consumption?

Alcohol consumption is drinking beer, wine, or distilled spirits such as gin, whiskey, or vodka, that contains ethyl alcohol.

What is the Purpose of Alcohol consumption?

In earlier times, when subsistence agriculture was the norm, alcoholic beverages, usually beer or mead (fermented honey and water), provided a substantial percentage of calories in the diet. Today people drink alcohol to relax and socialize, to get high, or because they are physically addicted to it.

Calories in alcohol

Beverage	Serving amount (ounce)	Average(calories)
Beer
Regular	12	149
Light	12	110
Distilled (80 proof)
Gin, rum, vodka,whisky, tequila	1.0	65
Brandy, cognac	1.0	65
Liqueurs (Drambuie,Cointreau, Kahlua)	1.5	188
Wine
Red	4	80
Dry white	4	75
Sweet	4	105
Sherry	2	105
Port	2	90
Champagne	4	84
Vermouth, sweet	3	140
Vermouth, dry	3	105
Cocktails
Martini	3.5	140
Manhattan	3.5	164
Daiquiri	4	122
Whiskey sour	3	122
Margarita cocktail	6	150

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services