Is Whiskey Good For A Cold?
 

Maybe I'll administer 1 shot every 1/2 hour until I feel better. :glugglug

You're the doctor :glugglug

DH

Alcohol doesn't cure a cold.

no, but it'll make you feel better.

For a while maybe, you can't stay drunk all day (can you?)

drink enough and pass out, you care if you have a cold.:thumbsup

sure you can

I thought alcohol has vitamins?

Carbohydrates

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That would be a nice excuse to drink alcohol. Unfortunately, no.

Whisky's just plain good, especially if it's Crown.

FYI I know a few people that swear by warm milk & whiskey as a home remedy, also heard tell of warm Rye & Ginger.

Also, everybody knows that alcohol kills germs


I drink all day every day and I can't remember the last time I caught a cold....

Pete- mix 3 parts of Jack Daniel's, lemon juice and honey. Heat it a little and drink it up. It will cure a sore throat, I swear.

Yup, good slug of whisky, hot water, juice of half a lemon, teaspoon of honey - works wonders :thumbsup

No carbs in alcohol. Zip.

Some say that it does help.

Check this out:

alcool kills germs, whiskey has alcool, cold has germs.

The story writes itself :thumbsup

I could be wrong, but doesnt alcohol makes you fat?

There are lots of theories on what "makes you fat" I'm sure.

AS far as it goes for me, when I take in carbs I pack on the lbs. So I stay away from things high in carb content (from the Atkins frame of thought).

Beer is higher in carbs than liquor -- but note that mixed drinks really up the carb content -- adding your Tonic, or Lemon-Sour stuffs.. I stick with vodka-sodas thank you very much.

Beer is higher in carbs than liquor

So beer does contain carbs?

it does .. but it's not like it's a cake or something ..

I've read a study suggesting that beer would make you fatter if it didn't have any alcool in it. Something about your metabolism and alcool. If I ever find that page again, I'll post a link. It was in French though

Are you asking if ALCOHOL has carbs? If that is the question then NO. It doesn't.

If you are asking if BEER has carbs, then yes it does.. Beer has alcohol in it, but it isn't "alcohol."

Okay, mixed that up

Makes perfect sense to me :1orglaugh

Beer makes you fat, hence the term 'beer gut'

Never heard of a 'whiskey gut' so you can drink as much as you want and not get fat! Of course you may get dead but nobody ever got fat by being dead either.. ;)


What you need is whiskey, hot water, honey and cloves.. works wonders!

:thumbsup

I knew there was something good about whiskey, I just couldnt put my finger on it.

Beer, Wine, Whiskey, Gin.. Whatever, they all have CALORIES.

More calories = Will turn into fat if not used.

No wonder why 50% of americans are obese, you still think that u can eat tons of food with no fat but don't care about the calories :)



http://www.ivillage.co.uk/dietandfit...0400-2,00.html

Alcohol and body weight

The calories in alcohol add up to increased body fat, so consider these points the next time you have that extra drink:

Calories in alcohol are used before stored fat calories, so you can?t rationalise that drinking a beer (or two) after a workout counts as a fluid replacement. In reality, post-exercise alcohol is a straight-to-the-hips beverage.
People who are overweight actually gain weight more easily when they drink alcohol.
Calories from alcohol tend to be stored in the gut. If you want six-pack abs, you?ll need to cut down on the booze.
Calorie content of common alcoholic beverages

Although alcohol itself doesn?t contain fat, it is packed with calories. And when you add in mixers ? juice, sugar and other ingredients ? the calories really can add up.

Beer

Non-alcoholic beer actually has the same calories as alcoholic beer: 148 calories in a pint. If you drink a light beer ? like Bud Light ? you?ll only take in around 99 calories per pint.

Wine

Dry wine contains fewer calories than sweeter wine. For example, a glass of dry wine has about 106 calories and a glass of sweet dessert wine has a whopping 226 calories. If you drink a glass of wine before dinner, another glass with dinner and a sweet wine for dessert, you've added more than 400 calories to your meal.

You'll be glad to hear that champagne contains the same amount of calories as other dry wines, 106 calories per glass.

The hard stuff

The calories in gin, rum, vodka or whiskey depends on the proof, which is twice the percentage of alcohol. For example, 90 proof vodka contains 45 per cent alcohol; 100 proof contains 50 per cent alcohol. And it?s easy to guess which has more calories: The higher the proof, the higher the calories. Here?s the damage:

Double shot 80 proof contains 97 calories
Double shot 90 proof contains 110 calories
Double shot 100 proof contains 124 calories

Calorie content of other types of liquor varies greatly. Watch the really sweet stuff, though. A serving of schnapps has 108 calories, and crème de menthe will set you back 186 calories.

Mixed drinks

Obviously, the larger the drink the higher the calorie content. If your favourite watering hole serves pond-sized margaritas, you can easily drink more than 400 calories (without the crisps and guacamole). Choose a smaller cocktail like a Cosmopolitan and you?ll only take in about a third of the calories. In a common serving size, here?s how many calories your favourite drink contains:

Bloody Mary: 115 calories (the celery adds less than five calories)
Gin and tonic: 171 calories
Pina colada: 262 calories
Whiskey sour: 122 calories
Adding it all up

One beer every night adds 1,036 additional calories per week, or 15 pounds to your stomach per year. No wonder they call it a beer belly. Three glasses of dry wine a week will cost you 318 calories, or an additional three miles on the treadmill just to walk off the extra calories. If you?re watching your weight, try this advice:

Don?t drink alcohol regularly
Remember that the calories from alcohol add up quickly, and they go straight to the fat in your abdomen
Most people eat high-calorie snacks when they drink alcohol, a double whammy in terms of weight gain
Suddenly, water with a twist of lemon never looked so good.

Yes, your body will burn off alchohol before anything else as your metabolism recognises it as a toxin.