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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>Even if they didn’t eat anything, the calories from the drinking alone should be enough for them to put on weight
Beer is 43 calories per 100g, meaning that to reach 2000 (~ the daily amount you need) you’d have to drink 4.7 kg of it, aka 4.7 litres, 8.3 UK pints (I don’t know what freedom units for beer are), coming to something like 21 units of alcohol (1 unit = 10 ml or 8 g of ethanol, again I don’t know what freedom units are)
But alcoholics usually move on to wine or spirits. Wine is 83 calories per 100g, so you need 2.4 litres or 4.2 pints (3.2 bottles of 750ml), about 31 units. Vodka is 231 per 100g, giving 0.87 litres or 1.5 pints, about 35 units.
Even 21 units a day is well beyond “normal alcoholism” levels – [this site](https://www.changegrowlive.org/advice-info/coronavirus/alcohol-advice) puts 15 as “likely to be dependent” levels – and 30-35 is madness. UK guidelines at present are to not exceed 14 per week, this would be 150-250 a week.
Essentially: to make up all your calorie needs from alcohol, you are drinking so much that you are gonna be extremely f’d up.
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