How many alcoholic calories did you consume over the weekend?
I cannot divulge how many calories I took in this past weekend because you just wouldn' t believe me if I told you. I'm only sorta kidding. C'mon, you must have seen the story last week about how The Sun will cut 100 of people from the newsroom here. It's been a rough few weeks for everyone at the paper and it will get tougher. But let's not dwell on pain.
Let's talk about how the Consumer Federation of America has been fighting to require standardized labeling on alcoholic beverages. Since that hasn't happened yet, CFA is attempting to fill the void by releasing Alcohol Facts, a side-by-side comparison of the alcohol, calorie and carbohydrate content per serving of the top 26 domestic and imported alcoholic beverage brands sold in the US.
I just realized that the graphic turned up pretty fuzzy and I am not sure how to fix it from home (writing this on a very late Sunday night), so if you can be patient, I'll post a better, less fuzzy graphic when I get into wrk tomorrow. There's one for wine and liquor, too.
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