I occasionally hear people say that people are more fat now because we drink our calories, while nobody had this luxury in the days of yore. This seems wrong to me. Soda is a new thing, but highly caloric drinks are not: people have been drinking alcohol for a very long time, and your body is happy to turn ethanol into fat. Wine definitely has more calories in it than coke. According to my personal intern, Opus 5.5, beers are a bit more variable. It claims Guinness and Coors Light are less caloric than coke, but IPAs typically have more...