By Gina Garrett
AmesEats Flavors writer
The buzz on the street is that 1-2 drinks per day may be healthy for you. But what, really, is a drink? For moderate consumption, a woman should consume only one drink per day. Men should only consume two. You may be surprised to learn that a cosmo actually contains almost two “drinks,” some margaritas contain three “drinks,” and a mudslide contains four servings of alcohol and boasts 820 calories!
Sometimes a large glass of wine is just begging to be filled, but a drink is not what you can fit into a glass, but, rather, specific ounces, depending on the alcohol. So if one 1.5 oz. shot of liquor is a serving, your drink could have several.
Here is what standard drink sizes look like:
n 12 oz. beer
n 1.5 oz. shot of liquor
n 5 oz. wine
Check out the following Web site, where you can choose a drink type, and the calculator will tell you how many servings of alcohol that is. You can find additional information on alcohol consumption here, too.
http://rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/ToolsResources/CocktailCalculator.asp
