Alcopops: Just how bad for you are they?

You're out, you're having fun, you have a trusty old bottle of overpriced VK Orange in your hand you are all set for the best night out ever, but do you know what that bottle is doing to you? I'm not lecturing on the evils of binge drinking here, my liver complains every Sunday morning and I've never given into it once. What I'm talking about is the fact that if you drink bottles you are getting terrible value in terms of Alcohol units for the amount of calories in each bottle.

Presented here is a small survey of the amount of calories per bottle in some of the more popular bottles that you may like to drink on a Saturday night.

Orange Bacardi Breezer - 179 calories
Reef Orange & Passion Fruit - 179 calories
Smirnoff Ice - 176 calories
VK Orange - 220 calories

A bottle of VK orange has 1.1 units of alcohol and 220 calories. One single vodka, equal to 1 unit of alcohol, contains 61 calories. The ratio of alcohol content to calories is ridiculously bad value.

To stay drunk and lose weight switch from bottles to vodka and mixer. That way you can get just as drunk for half the calories, or if you prefer, twice as drunk for the same amount of calories. Plus you won't look like an under aged drinker who can't handle their liquor

posted at 4:46 PM