People eat more unhealthy foods on days they drink

To match feature FOOD-USA/PORTIONSBy Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Americans tend to eat more calories and fat on the days they also have alcoholic drinks, a new study suggests. "Food choices changed on the days that people drank... and changed in an unhealthier direction for both men and women," said Rosalind Breslow, a nutritional epidemiologist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the lead author of the study. She said the new information gives people an opportunity to be more aware of what they're eating on the days they imbibe. ...