The most fattening cocktails

Filed in archive News on August 9, 2005

Next on Forbes.com's continuing lists - the countdown of the most fattening cocktails:

Of all the evils of alcohol, weight gain is probably the least discussed. To be sure, there are many far worse results of alcohol abuse, but many people are still ignorant of the danger booze poses to their pant size.

We don't mean that the occasional cocktail will instantly result in a Brobdingnagian beer belly, but you shouldn't be fooled just because these drinks taste light and fruity. Not only do spirits, such as vodka, gin, rum and whiskey, contain a higher percentage of calories than beer and wine, but if you add fruit juice, syrups and sodas to the mix--for example, orange juice has 56 calories per serving and Coca-Cola has 105 calories per eight fluid ounces--the calorie count keeps growing. And don't think that drinking fewer cocktails with a bigger kick will solve that problem: The higher the proof, the greater the calories.

(Yara, "The Most Fattening Cocktails", Forbes, Aug.2005)