The Alcohol You Can Actually Drink on the Keto Diet

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Yes, most alcoholic beverages are essentially carbohydrate in liquid form. And yes, since your carbs are so limited on the keto diet, you’re better off choosing carbs that are bundled with good-for-you nutrients. (Think whole grains, fruits, and starchy vegetables—all of which are chock-full of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and disease-fighting compounds.) 

But hello, we’re realists: Sometimes you want, deserve, or just need a drink. So what are your best options?

It can be tricky to figure out how many carbs alcoholic beverages contain because they aren’t required to come labeled with nutrition facts. Below we’ve founded up a few of the most keto-friendly drinks, plus a few you should definitely skip (sorry, sake fans). 

First though, we want to clear up some confusion about booze and keto that’s been spreading on the Interwebs. You may have read somewhere that your body produces ketones as it breaks down alcohol (which in theory at least, sounds like a good thing). Not so, though. “There’s nothing magical about alcohol enhancing ketogenesis long-term,” says sports nutritionist Chris Mohr, PhD, RD. “The general metabolism of alcohol as a whole falls outside of the ketogenic metabolic pathways.”

Don’t be fooled by the rumor. If you’re going to enjoy a cocktail, do it because it adds a little balance to your day, and diet—everything in moderation, right?

RELATED: 9 Fruits You Can Actually Eat on the Keto Diet

The best (and worst) alcohol for the keto diet

No matter what proof (80 through 100), gin, rum, vodka, and whiskey all have 0 grams of carbohydrate in a jigger (or 1.5 ounces). Have your drink neat, on the rocks, or with a splash of plain soda water. And it’s best to pour your own rather than cracking open one of those pre-made spiked seltzers; one can deliver anywhere from 1 to 5 grams carbohydrate.

If you’re craving a glass of wine, budget for it, and keep the pour size in mind. A glass of white wine ranges from 3 to 6 grams of carbohydrate per five ounces. (The sweeter whites—think riesling versus chardonnay—typically have more carbohydrates.) At home, you’re likely to pour more than five ounces, especially if you have larger wine glasses. And a standard restaurant pour is six ounces. Red wine has a tighter range of carbohydrates, at 3 to 4 grams per 5-ounce pour, with little variation between varieties.

Skip beer: It’s essentially bread in a bottle. A can of beer has around 12 grams of carbs. Though if you must have a beer, seek out a light beer, which comes in at around half that carb load per can.

Two other no-nos: mixers (they’re all pretty much sugar-laden) and sake. A 6-ounce pour is fairly common for sake, and it delivers nearly 9 grams of carbohydrate.

RELATED: 5 Supplements You Should Take If You’re on the Keto Diet

An unexpected perk of going keto

In any trendy diet, there are always nuggets of wisdom buried somewhere—and keto is no exception. Because it involves such a tight carb budget, the diet doesn’t leave much room for regular alcohol consumption. And when you do imbibe, quantity is limited, so you’re likely to stay within the recommended limit. (That’s one drink per day for women, and two for men.) Considering that more and more research suggests moderate drinking may be more detrimental to our health than experts previously thought, the keto diet’s booze restrictions could be a really good thing in the long run.

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INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING COMPANY, HAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A PROJECT ENGINEER TO JOIN THEIR TEAM IN RICHARDS BAY.

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If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.

Requirements:

  • Degree or similar qualification in project management
  • Diploma/Degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering fields
  • ECSA registration and affiliation with professional project management bodies (for eg. PMI, PMSA, SACPCMP) is advantageous
  • 2 Years’ experience in project management
  • 5 Years’ practical experience in the field of engineering advantageous
  • Proven working experience in project management and organisational skills
  • Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Projects
  • Marketing skills for identifying possible new projects and business opportunities
  • Technical knowledge equipment used in aluminium industry
  • Basic financial comprehension pertaining to budgets, estimations, cost control and reporting
  • Good understanding of principles of health, safety, environmental and quality in the workplace

 

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  • Maintain regular contact and a relationship with client end-users, ascertain needs, promote solutions, and develop business opportunities for the company
  • Establish and maintain relationships with suppliers and contractors
  • Report and escalate to management as needed
  • Contribute towards good company culture, team morale and a healthy work environment in all areas

 

Applicants must reside in RICHARD BAY or surrounding area.

Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.

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Technical Director (Johannesburg)

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Location: Johannesburg, Bryanston
Job level: Management Snr
Type: Permanent
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Company: Liquorice

Digitas Liquorice is one of Africa’s leading digital marketing agencies specialising in a range of services from web, mobile, social media, CRM, content creation and search engine marketing.

We are seeking a technical director, based in Johannesburg, who will have the opportunity to work on our exciting, challenging and diverse globally recognised brands and who has experience managing a team. Our development projects are award-winning, pioneering, and cutting edge and we seek someone who can continue to drive this success.

Responsibilities and tasks are spanning over developers, multiple account managers and brands, websites, mobile, and social. Typically, the technical director deals primarily with core team of account managers, search specialists and developers. No coding will be required as part of this role.

Tasks/responsibilities

  • Curiosity into current and new tech is paramount
  • Technically lead project team – provide technical vision and leadership. Technically provide strategic direction and oversight to members of the project team
  • Manage Project timelines and Project budgets. Provide good faith effort estimates.
  • Mentor lower level developers within the team. Show a genuine intent in fostering the learning or development of others
  • Reviewing briefs from a technical perspective
  • Creating and reviewing Technical Specs
  • Raising usability and functional concerns
  • Research into newer technologies – reading appropriate technical journals and books
  • Attending relevant conferences, tutorials, and training courses
  • Personal Development – stay current with relevant industry advances and trends
  • Collaborate professionally with other team members
  • Manage Resources needs– Identify required human resources and evaluate potential technical team members
  • Produce high quality products – improve work products whenever practical. Request changes to, and report defects in, work products
  • Develop reusable intellectual capital
  • Process orientated – ability to identify operational improvements
  • Reporting – provide input for regular team status reports.
  • Conflict resolution and facilitation. Facilitates meetings effectively, deciding when to advocate, and when to compromise to arrive at mutually acceptable decisions and solutions.
  • Networking – develop and maintain friendly, professional, and supportive relationships and networks of contacts with people and organizations who are or might be, useful in achieving work-related goals.
  • Innovation – seek opportunities to implement innovative new ideas, tools, and techniques.
  • Knowledge sharing – participate, foster and encourage effective group discussions and activities, while also encouraging others to do the same.
  • Efficiency and speed of the department to ensure that the team are meeting key deadlines

Skills requirements

  • Communication skills with all stakeholders (management, customer representatives, domain experts, and members of the project team)
  • Excellent team building and leadership skills
  • Ability to know when to follow the process and when to obtain waivers
  • Able to technically mentor all members of the project team
  • Highly self-directed and proactive
  • Able to prioritise, multitask, and make critical decisions given incomplete and conflicting knowledge
  • Solid knowledge of project requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and testing.
  • In-depth knowledge of project technologies (manage, monitor and track projects from initiation to completion )

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  • Keep up with the digital agency pace
  • Promote values of the Agency to all stakeholders
  • Be honest, have integrity, and maintain confidentiality at all times.
  • Good communication skills
  • Communicate effectively by responding to his or her audience so that information is clearly conveyed
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  • Present information persuasively, analysing and summarizing the key issues, specifying the benefits and drawbacks of the issues, and supporting a point of view with valid, logical arguments
  • Use the full range of active listening skills, picking up underlying verbal and non-verbal messages and questions
  • Ability to align objectives of self and team with business goals
  • Relationship building with relevant key stakeholders
  • Think laterally and can find feasible and secure solutions to apparently impossible problems. Exceptional quality of output and attention to detail are a natural part of your skill set
  • Ability to function under consistent high pressure and be deadline driven.
  • Highly efficient ( within a team and working individually )
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Intermediate-Senior Web Developer (Durban)

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Location: Durban, Durban North, Riverhorse Valley
Job level: Mid/Senior
Type: Permanent
Company: The Fire Tree Design Company

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The Fire Tree Design Company is looking for a web developer to join our team.

Your task is to develop websites and web application projects according to deadlines in a fast-paced team environment.

You will be responsible for creating and maintaining several client websites back-end and front-end.
 
Must be able to communicate effectively in person and via email.
 
Please note that this is not an IT position. Relevant experience in web development is required.

  • Minimum of five years’ PHP web development and managerial experience – WordPress, Drupal or other PHP based CMS.
  • Solid experience with quoting and using a PERT quoting technique.
  • Manage admin and juggle between coding, briefing, client meetings, admin, coffee breaks, and mentoring the other developers.

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  • Matric, relevant degree, or diploma

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  • HTML/CSS
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  • MySQL
  • JavaScript
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  • Magento experience will be advantageous

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Sport24.co.za | Willie: Boks got fear factor back under Rassie

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Cape Town – Springbok fullback Willie le Roux says the team has made clear progress under new coach Rassie Erasmus in 2018.

ALSO READ: Wales have options to replace Halfpenny – Le Roux

The Springboks have won seven and lost six Tests under Erasmus’ guidance but showed their potential with a series win over England and a win over the All Blacks in New Zealand.

“We went back to our traditional way, how the Springboks play rugby,” Le Roux told media in Cardiff on Tuesday, as quoted by the SBS News.

“There was a stage where people did not fear the Springboks anymore, or the badge. We are getting that back through the structures Rassie has built.

“Everyone in the team is equal, and it makes a big difference. The guys are playing for each other more and we know what it means for our country back home. We enjoy going out and wearing the jersey.”

This weekend the Boks face a Welsh team who are on an eighth-match win-streak and currently occupy third spot on the official World Rugby rankings.

Le Roux added that they would be up for the challenge.

“The squad is looking forward to it. This is the last game of the season for a lot of the guys, so one more week of hard work and they can have some time off.

“I don’t think it’s difficult (to produce one last big effort). It’s your job and when you play for South Africa, you’re representing your country. To end the tour on a high would be unbelievable for the squad and the people back home,” Le Roux said.

Saturday’s Test is scheduled for 19:20 (SA time).

News24.com | ‘I refused to schedule a meeting with the Gupta family’ – Gordhan tells #StateCaptureInquiry

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Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has taken a swipe at the Gupta family, saying an invitation he received from the family to a Sun City wedding found its “way into the waste basket, where it belonged”. 

He told state capture inquiry chairperson, Deputy Justice Raymond Zondo, during his testimony on Tuesday that he refused to schedule a meeting with the family. 

“At no stage would I have entertained meeting directly with the Guptas,” he said. 

He also said he never had a one-on-one meeting with the Guptas and never visited their family home in Saxonwold. 

When ministers accompanied former president Jacob Zuma to functions, including breakfast briefings following the State of the Nation Address, he recalled one or more of the Gupta brothers would be present. Although he would see the brothers, he would not interact with them, he added.

“I am not for sale to anybody,” he testified.

“Let me repeat, I refused to schedule a meeting with the Gupta family, whether at their residence or anywhere else,” he said. 

Gordhan said he saw them at cricket matches once or twice but that did not mean there was a meeting.

Gordhan also told the commission about the time a Gupta brother may have been at a meeting he had with businessman Anil Ambani of the Reliance group of companies in or about June 2010. 

He said he did not recall the details and that he was assisted by his former chief of staff, Dondo Mogajane. 

Gordhan added that he was told that the Presidency put Rajesh Gupta in touch with Mogajane, and repeatedly asked for a meeting with him and even asked to attend the meeting in Saxonwold.  

The minister said according to his office there were repeated efforts to try and meet him and get him into the meeting, “all of which turned down by my office or myself”, he said. 

“I refused to schedule a meeting with the Gupta family, whether at their residence or anywhere else,” he said. 

He said the only meeting he agreed to was with Ambani and added that Mogajane advised him that the meeting only lasted less than an hour.  

Ministers of finance meet hundreds of investors on behalf of the country and this was just one of those. 

Asked if he lied to Parliament about meeting with the Guptas, Gordhan said: “I would not lie to Parliament. If I wanted to, I could have left the meeting out, it is here, it is declared, meeting with Mr Ambani, evidence of both my and my office’s commitment.”

He said he intended to write to the speaker for clarification from the DA. 

Gordhan said at the time of the response he had no recollection of the Gupta attendee, because that meeting was with Mr Ambani.  

He emphasised that the meeting he had was with Mr Ambani – not a Gupta brother. 

Earlier on Tuesday, Gordhan also challenged his detractors to appear before the commission and “say their piece under oath”.

“As far as I’m concerned, I’m accountable to citizens of this country, then Parliament and my political organisation. But I’m not accountable to bullies,” he said.”Those making allegations outside or inside this forum should, under oath, come to this commission and say what they have to say.

“They must subject themselves to cross-examination. I appeared before [Judge] Nugent, under oath, and also here and have nothing to fear. I am not a commodity for sale and the Guptas learned that too.”

Gordhan is expected to appear before the commission again on Wednesday at 10:00.

News24.com | KZN man loses arm while repairing air-conditioner at sports bar

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A man has lost his arm in a freak accident while repairing an air-conditioner on Tuesday. 

Emergency service Netcare 911 said it responded to reports of bleeding at a sports bar in Margate on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast

“Reports from the scene indicate that an adult male sustained a partial amputation of his arm when while repairing an air conditioner,” Netcare 911 said.

The police search-and-rescue unit was called to assist in helping the injured man off the roof of the bar.

“The patient was treated on scene before being transported by another private ambulance service to hospital for further treatment,” according to Netcare 911. 

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Health24.com | Will peanut treatment help guard against peanut allergy?

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People with peanut allergy can protect themselves from an allergic reaction by consuming a small amount of peanut powder every day, a new study suggests.

The “breakthrough” findings mean this new treatment is ready for review by the US Food and Drug Administration, the researchers added.

“We’re excited about the potential to help children and adolescents with peanut allergy protect themselves against accidentally eating a food with peanut in it,” study co-author Dr Stephen Tilles said in an ACAAI news release.

“Our hope when we started the study was that by treating patients with the equivalent of one peanut per day, many would tolerate as much as two peanuts,” he said.

“We were pleased to find that two-thirds of the people in the study were able to tolerate the equivalent of two peanuts per day after nine to 12 months of treatment, and half the patients tolerated the equivalent of four peanuts,” noted Tilles, a Seattle allergist and ACAAI past president.

The study included 551 patients, aged 4 to 55, with peanut allergy. One-third were given a placebo, while two-thirds were given peanut protein powder in increasing amounts until they reached the maintenance dose equivalent of one peanut a day.

“This is not a quick fix, and it doesn’t mean people with peanut allergy will be able to eat peanuts whenever they want,” said study co-author Dr Jay Lieberman, vice chair of the ACAAI food allergy committee.

“But it is definitely a breakthrough,” he added. “The hope would be to have a treatment available in the second half of 2019. If that happens, people who receive and are able to tolerate this treatment should be protected from accidental exposures.”

Big impact

Allergist Dr Punita Ponda agreed.

“The doses patients tolerate are high enough to likely prevent reactions with cross contamination or allow patients to eat foods with ‘may contain’ or ‘manufactured in’-type labels,” added Ponda, who is assistant chief in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Northwell Health, in Great Neck, New York, She was not involved with the study.

“This would make a large impact on the lives of patients with peanut allergy who may be afraid to eat outside of the house for fear of cross contamination or have to severely limit their diet due to the difficulty of avoiding products with the above mentioned safety labels,” Ponda noted.

The study was to be presented Sunday at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) annual meeting, in Seattle, and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There are no approved treatments for peanut allergy. If approved by the FDA, this treatment would be available by prescription and patients would need to continue taking it to stay protected from accidental peanut exposure.

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This one bedroom unfurnished apartment on the 1st floor in Newlands Terrace is available from 1st December 2018.

Ideally suited to a single professional, the apartment has an open plan lounge/dining room leading on to a balcony. There is an en-suite bathroom with a shower cubicle. The bedroom has wooden floors and built-in cupboards.

The kitchen area is plumbed for one wet appliance and the apartment has a prepaid electricity meter, water metered and one open parking bay.

The complex is access controlled, biometrics and off-site monitoring.

Close to Greater Westerford, Rondebosch shops and restaurants and easy access to the M3.