I am not trying to be a party pooper in any way! Just wanted to arm you with some information...

So this marks the first day in a 3 part series of blogs about alcohol consumption.Today I am giving you some nutritional information regarding some of your favorite cocktails and popullar beer choices.  Tomorrow I will talk more about how alcohol may be ruining your diet. Friday will be about hangover remedies and exercise. Not to ruin your weekend fun but here we go...

Beer is a popular drink on St. Paricks Day. Adding green food coloring to celebrate your Irish or most commonly non-Irish heritage usually makes it the most popular drink choice of the holiday. This is followed closely  by Guiness. Below I have listed calorie content for some or the more popular beers out there. Check the other links provided for more beer information out there.

Based on 12 ounce Serving:

Beer                      alcohol%         calories       carb

Amstel Light            3.5                      95                   5.0 

Budweiser                5.0                    143                10.6

Bud Light                  4.2                     95                   6.6

Coors Light              4.2                     102                 5.0

Corona                     4.6                    148         

Corona Light           4.5                     109                   5

Miller Lite                 4.2                       96                  3.2

Guiness Stoudt       4.0                     125                  10

Sam Adams Lagar 4.8                    160

http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php

http://www.barshots.com/beercalories.htm

http://www.beer100.com/beercalories.htm

 But maybe you are not a beer drinker. So what should you drink? The better choices of alcohol to drink are Vodka, whiskey, tequila because their sugar content is zero.

One shot or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits contain 100 calories