Why does a standard shot of liquor have so many calories for its relatively small size?
In: Chemistry
* Alcohol (Ethanol) contains calories/energy that your body can process to a limited degree via the liver.
* The body cannot store these calories; it must either convert them into energy in the liver or dump them out through the urine/kidneys.
* The liver will *preferentially* burn calories from alcohol (rather than from food). If alcohol is being processed, the calories from food that otherwise would have been used end up being stored as fat instead. Thus, having alcohol in your system can indirectly result in weight gain.
* Many alcoholic beverages have sugar in them as a result of mixers or fermentation processes.
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