Interesting - back in the 50s or 60s there was a book called "the drinking man's diet" as I recall, it recommended cutting carbs, to minimize weight impact of alcohol. Couple of days ago in my home town paper, there was an article about a local counselor who is having success by putting alcoholics on a lowcarb diet. Her reasoning is that alcohol cravings are like sugar cravings, and that hard drinkers are also frequently hypoglycemic. She admits she has no studies to back this up, only empirical success stories. But she points to Atkins, says he got no respect either at first. It kind of makes sense to me, lots of us find that alcohol sabotages our lowcarb efforts, so why wouldn't high carbs sabotage efforts to curb drinking? She thinks the two are diff sides of the same card, she may be right. Bill