Beer Nut: Sometimes less is more

I’ve been trying to lose weight and become a little more fit, and for me that meant cutting back on beer for a little while.

As everyone knows, alcohol equals empty calories. There is also the additional havoc it can wreak on your blood sugar, causing you to snack on carbs after a few beers. So I have been keeping my beer intake in check for a few months. So far, so good.

I have done this in the past, but this recent bit of discipline also opened my eyes to another possible benefit: I’m enjoying each individual beer more. It’s axiomatic that we appreciate things that are rarer, and sometimes take for granted the things that are commonplace. So it makes sense that if we deny (or restrict) our consumption of a product, our minds might treasure that product more.

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