Dr. Sandra Fryhofer - Your Health Matters - Want Proof? - Alcohol & Weight Loss

Wanna lose some weight?

Back off the booze. Stop exercising your elbow. You know what I mean. I mean beer, wine, spirits, hard liquor. Cut back. That advice comes straight from the CDC.

For the first time, CDC researchers looked at America’s calorie count from alcohol. On any given day, a third of men and about a fifth of women -– no pun intended -– drink alcohol. For many of them it’s a source of what are called “hidden calories.”

Your Health Matters with Dr. Sandra Fryhofer is a weekly series offering useful and timely information on health and well-being.

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP is a board certified doctor of internal medicine in Atlanta and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is on staff at Piedmont Hospital.