Everybody is more health-conscious these days. Or, well, it appears that way.

Bud Light is the best-selling beer in America, producing about 39 million barrels every year. While the calorie-count doesn’t figure into their advertising so much any more, it still factors into some people’s buying decisions.

Let’s not forget, as flavor-poor your basic industrial American lager is, the “light” version has even less. To my palate, a light beer tastes basically like water.

But is it worth it? Does it make sense to have light beer, or even ultra-light beer, as part of a diet to reduce your calorie intake?

In a word, no.

Let’s examine that with a little math. (Don’t worry, it’s only a little. It won’t hurt you.)

Budweiser weighs in at about 145 calories per 12 ounces. Bud Light, about 100.

If you have two beers a day, you’re saving 90 calories.

A McDonald’s double cheeseburger is 440 calories.

That means, after five days of suffering through two flavorless light beers each day you will have saved enough calories to have one (1) McDonald’s double cheeseburger. Never mind any sort of really good food.

What kind of bargain is that?

Personally, I’d much rather have just a few really flavorful beers in a week.