Wednesday, November 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fit For
Sisters
Andrew Loscutoff
Columnist
Those holiday
drinks add up
The year 2020 is one
we9re more than ready to
put in the past. It9s time to
ring in new beginnings, or
commemorate 4 and drown
out 4 the past. This time
of year, especially between
Thanksgiving and New
Years, Americans increase
their alcohol intake by two
fold, according to a 2018
study.
We9re not going to lec-
ture the drinkers or decry
the effects of alcohol 4 but
we are going to cast light to
a common side effect many
people find themselves
regretting: holiday weight
gain. Holiday weight gain is
a divisive topic. Some read-
ing this may put on up to six
pounds of weight, while oth-
ers little at all. Most of these
pounds come from people at
this time of year excusing
themselves from sensible
eating. There9s nothing to
fear from a cookie or two;
however a cookie, cake, and
pie washed down with hot
chocolate becomes an issue.
And holiday drinks serve
up a lot of empty calories.
Let9s discuss calories in
beverages and forget about
the rest. Holiday drinks in
general boast a very large
amount of calories. Add
booze to them and it9s no
wonder. Homemade eggnog
up to 340 calories; hot but-
tered rum, 400. Hot choco-
late 320. This is before the
alcohol is added at around
100 calories per shot. Even
champagne has 180 calories.
Dark, heavy, or robust beers
can have over 200.
Some math demonstrates
how this gets out of hand. A
person may have two eggs,
toast, jam and butter for
breakfast. This equates to
around 650 calories. A salad,
cup of minestrone soup, and
a basic turkey sandwich for
lunch, around 650 calories.
Dinner is a bowl of chili,
with ground turkey and avo-
cado; another 650 calories.
By all accounts this person
is likely eating fewer calo-
ries than they burn in a day.
However; after dinner a
holiday party invites them to
let go and have a few drinks.
Even two servings of spiced
hot apple cider and rum, at a
moderate 250 calories each,
puts them in the realm of
weight gain.
After drinking, a couple
holiday cookies and brown-
ies can add another 500
calories.
A thousand additional
calories add up fast. A pound
of weight gain takes around
3,500 calories to accumu-
late. You can easily see how
the weight piles on.
How to avoid this?
Don9t avoid holiday treats;
avoid overconsumption.
Have lighter drinks, eat
lighter meals, and know
that a cookie or two is good
enough. Instead of eating a
normal dinner, have a salad
with lean protein. Use sen-
sible alternatives like diet
sodas and low-calorie mix-
ers. Have a smaller piece of
pie, brownie, and a couple
of the best cookies, not all
of them.
Happy holidays to all!
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BEND (AP) 4 A home-
less man and double-leg
amputee died in Bend this
week, as temperatures hov-
ered around freezing and
strong, gusting winds hit the
region.
A sanitation worker
found David Melvin Savory,
57, dead next to his wheel-
chair outside a Rite Aid
early Tuesday morning, The
Bulletin reported. Savory was
on the waitlist for several area
homeless shelters and some
residents who had seen him
outside the Rite Aid gave him
blankets, started a GoFundMe
page for him and tried to find
him services before his death.
Bend, which often sees
heavy snow in the winter,
doesn9t have a permanent
warming shelter and lacks a
year-round low-barrier home-
less shelter, according to the
newspaper. Advocates say
those are <huge gaps= in the
safety net.
Savory9s death under-
scores a huge gap in ser-
vices in Central Oregon,
said Stacey Witte, head of
homeless aid organization
REACH.
So-called high-barrier
shelters like Bethlehem Inn,
which operate close to capac-
ity year-round, have more
rigid rules and don9t accept
people who are intoxicated.
Bend doesn9t have any
year-round so-called <low-
barrier shelters,= which tend
to provide fewer services but
take in almost everyone, even
if they9re still using drugs
or alcohol. Yet that9s where
Bend9s greatest need is, Witte
said.
<The goal of low-barrier
shelters is basically to keep
people alive while social ser-
vice agencies come in and
build relationships and start
creating plans for people,=
Witte said.
Bend also lacks a perma-
nent warming shelter.
The COVID-19 pandemic
has noticeably increased
homelessness in Bend and
new social-distancing restric-
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find relief in shelters just
when need is spiking, said
Dave Notari, development
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