Alcoholic drinks have a shit ton of calories, but I personally know many skinny people who drink an insane amount of beer & liquor. Even if they didn’t eat anything, the calories from the drinking alone should be enough for them to put on weight. How come they don’t? Does the body lose it’s ability to take in the energy properly if it’s mostly coming from alcohol?
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‚Beer gut‘ Happens to early stage alcoholics who still eat a normal diet, and just add excess calories from their drinking.
But those drinks aren’t that calorie dense: once the damage from the alcohol causes appetite loss and you aren’t eating properly anymore, you‘d have to drink crazy (like for an alcoholic crazy) amounts of alcohol to keep up your energy intake.
Additionally alcohol can only properly be used for energy when the body is reasonable well supplied with calories, because it gets shunted into things as acetic acid, which don‘t work just on its own.
Also chronic intake in alcohol causes loss of many vitamins, which again leads to loss of appetite.
The kinds alcoholic who doesn’t lead an active lifestyle and drinks a couple beers or a bottle of wine at night is at a chance of being overweight.
The kind that’s drinking a bottle of vodka and not eating much, is not gonna be overweight for long.
Additionally 2/3 of the population of say the US is overweight in the first place.
Alcohol doesn’t cause my 600 pound life kinds obesity. The beer gut alcoholics would not be noticeable at all with the current rates of sugar addicted obese people
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