Drinking a Little Less

Yep, we've seen the studies about moderate consumption being healthy. We'd like to believe, but I think most of us have doubts about, the validity of these claims. This is why there's a trend to drinking less, drinking lower alcohol beverages, or not at all. Well, there's another way.

In American culture life is often a competition. If the others in your group have had three drinks you don't want to be one behind. We've all drank to get drunk at one time or another. Not all cultures do this (surprise)!

It's called the Guzzle Buddy

With the quality of wines, beers, and spirits available you're actually missing out. Slow down and savor what you're consuming. How many Americans actually do this with drink or food? Not a lot, I'm guessing. I know I'm not good at it. Compare our 20 minute meals and guzzling a couple beers after work to other cultures that might have a two hour meal with a glass or two of wine.

If you just paid six bucks for a craft beer or twelve for that glass of wine try not to down it in ten minutes. Think about it, enjoy it.

The popularity of crappy lager beer, cheap blended whiskeys, and jug wine feeds the belief of drink a lot and drink it fast. Instead pay more, enjoy it more, consume less. The coolest thing about a really nice wine is enjoying and thinking about the first sip then realizing how it's changed and gotten even better 30 minutes later. 

Drink better, drink less. It seems like a big win.