Dr. Li states that "...you'll have to work off 500 to 600 calories" if you drink two lager beers, so his suggestion is to drink Crystal Light concentrate mixed with vodka  to "only injest 120 calories".  While his number for the vodka drink is reasonably accurate, the rest of his information is incorrect.

Let's start with a standardized drink size, say from the National Institutes of Health: For beer, that's one 12 oz. serving and for 80-proof distilled spirits, that's 1.5 oz.  Most vodkas are 65 calories per oz., yielding 98 calories per serving.  Add an extra 5 calories for the Crystal Light and you're at 103 calories, which happens to be the same as 12 oz. of most light lagers.  Don't like "light" beers?  Then 12 oz. of a regular lager will be around 150 calories, so two of those is still nowhere near Dr. Li's "500 to 600 calories".  Also worth noting is the 1 to 1.5 grams of protein in a typical lager serving, and yes, about 12 grams of carbohydrates (about half that in light lagers) --  not the simple sugars many of us are trying to avoid, but more complex carbs that are found in many healthy foods.  Dr. Li should be more responsible in giving nutritional advice and 5280 should check facts before printing misleading information.