Why drink so much beer that you get fat?

You cannot maintain your physique, six-pack abdominal muscles if you drink too much beer. But is beer really the culprit? What exactly is calorie and how does beer in alcohol affect your waistline?

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According to HowStuffWorks, an average of 150 calories in a pint of beer doesn't hurt you, but most people drink more than a pint of beer. A pint of beer can quickly turn into two or three.Alcohol in beer stimulates your appetite . Maybe you just want to eat salad first, but after drinking a third beer, you crave more fried chicken wings.

Moreover, your body will stop burning fat when it detects alcohol in the blood. When you drink beer, about 20% of alcohol enters your blood and is then metabolized in your liver. When the brain recognizes acetaldehyde and acetate - a byproduct of alcohol metabolism - in your system, it stops burning fat and concentrates eliminating those by-products from the body. Worse, your body produces another fat, a by-product of alcohol, called acetyl CoA .

Because your body can only handle a finite amount of alcohol in an hour (15 to 30ml), the more you drink the more your body produces more fat acetyl CoA and the more time you stop burning fat long . For example, if you drink 500ml of beer containing 4% alcohol (22.7ml), your body will stop burning fat for an hour. And if you drink 6 500ml bottles of beer with an amount of 136ml alcohol, your body will stop burning fat for at least six hours.

This is bad news, especially for older beer addicts. Decreasing hormone levels makes us more likely to store fat around the waist as we get older, and drinking more beer can make matters worse. Beer addiction and smoking can cause a variety of health problems including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.