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Diet and Alcohol

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Many studies show that beer cardiovascular health benefits are associated with moderate beer or wine drinking while other studies show improved insulin sensitivity.
Hormones may be strongly involved because high alcohol intake has been shown to decrease blood testosterone in men, and also increase cortisol levels, which can lead to visceral fat accumulation.
With the nature of these longitudinal studies, you have to look at the lifestyle and nature of drinkers in general (or in this study, hard liquor drinkers).
When you hear that alcohol increases belly fat, you also have to look at what else is going on in the life of the drinker, particularly what the rest of a person’s diet looks like, and how alcohol intake affects appetite and eating habits.
If you drink in moderation, be aware of the calories in alcohol.
When you’re on a fat loss program you should have a fairly small “calorie budget” and that means being careful withe amount of calories being “spent.” For example, if a female is on a 1500 calorie per day diet, does she really want to "spend" 500 of those calories – one third of her intake - on a few alcoholic drinks?
For lifelong weight maintenance and a healthy lifestyle drink, do in moderation and only occasionally.
Don’t let the “munchies” get control of you during or after you drink (Note to chicken wing and nacho-eating men: The correlation to alcohol and body fat is higher in men in almost all the studies.
When drinking, watch the fatty foods in particular. A study by Angelo Tremblay back in 1995 suggested that alcohol and a high fat diet are a combination that favors overfeeding.

Continue reading: Why Some People Can Drink Alcohol Without Getting Fat

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