How beer makes you fat
1. You take a swig of beer
2. Within seconds the beverage passes through your esophagus and into your
stomach.
3. 20% of the alcohol is absorbed from your stomach into your bloodstream: the rest is absorbed from your intestines.
4. The alcohol travels through your blood into your liver, where it's broken
down. During this process waste products called acetate and acetaldehyde are created.
5. Acetate and acetaldehyde signal your body to stop burning fat, while at the same time your body starts making fat from another waste product of alcohol named acetylCoA.
6. Your body can effectively process only 0.5 to 1 ounce of alcohol per hour.
The more you drink, the longer your body is inhibited from burning fat and the
more fat builds up from the excess acetyl CoA (a 12-ounce beer contains about 0.6 ounce of alcohol).
1. You take a swig of beer
2. Within seconds the beverage passes through your esophagus and into your
stomach.
3. 20% of the alcohol is absorbed from your stomach into your bloodstream: the rest is absorbed from your intestines.
4. The alcohol travels through your blood into your liver, where it's broken
down. During this process waste products called acetate and acetaldehyde are created.
5. Acetate and acetaldehyde signal your body to stop burning fat, while at the same time your body starts making fat from another waste product of alcohol named acetylCoA.
6. Your body can effectively process only 0.5 to 1 ounce of alcohol per hour.
The more you drink, the longer your body is inhibited from burning fat and the
more fat builds up from the excess acetyl CoA (a 12-ounce beer contains about 0.6 ounce of alcohol).