The calorie of beer is not high, and each gram of alcohol can only produce about 7 calories. The alcohol content of beer is generally 4-6%, and 400 ml of beer only produces about 130 calories, which is only equivalent to the weight of rice in an egg.

We usually have 142 calories for a can of coke and 185 calories for a box of 250ml pure milk. Compared with this, the calories of beer are not that high.

Alcohol will not be stored by the body, and neither will rice and pork. All the food and drink will be digested, decomposed and absorbed by the chemical plant of the body, and finally metabolized in the form of heat energy, water and carbon dioxide.

The heat provided by alcohol will save the heat consumption provided by other foods, and the heat provided by other foods will be saved and converted into fat to be stored in the body.

So why is the beer belly related to beer? This is related to the side effects of beer.

According to a study published in Nature News on 20 17, drinking alcohol can make people feel hungry. Let's put it this way, it can be simply understood as: drinking-feeling hungry-eating a lot-gaining weight-beer belly.

Alcohol can stimulate AGRP neurons in the brain, which can produce signals to stimulate eating and make us feel hungry.

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Moreover, the self-discipline of people after drinking will also decline. They may have self-control over high-fat foods at ordinary times, but it is easy to give up treatment and start eating and drinking after drinking. In retrospect, when we eat supper, are we welcome to join the barbecue supper with cold beer? How can you drink? You will prepare a lot of appetizers!

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Secondly, most people with beer bellies are middle-aged, and such people need to go out to eat and socialize frequently. Restaurants outside like to attract more customers with heavy taste, usually heavy oil and sugar.

Stimulated by beer, they will eat more high-fat foods. This kind of people often sit for a long time, and their metabolism will gradually slow down, resulting in fat intake not being consumed in time and long-term obesity. Why do men only highlight their stomachs when they gain weight?

Most people with "beer bellies" are men, and most of men's fat is stored in internal organs.

The side effects of drinking will make the whole body fat, including a beer belly, which is actually the external manifestation of obesity. The scientific name is "abdominal obesity", which is also called "centripetal obesity" or "apple obesity".

Another kind of obesity is called "peripheral obesity", also called "pear-shaped obesity". However, due to genetic differences, apple obesity is generally more common in men, so we usually associate beer belly with middle-aged fat people. Apple-shaped obesity (left) and pear-shaped obesity (right)

Apple obesity is generally caused by excessive accumulation of visceral fat, while pear obesity is generally caused by excessive accumulation of thigh and hip fat.

As the saying goes, "men are easy to get fat, and women are easy to get fat." Gender can also affect fat accumulation. Male middle-aged and elderly people like to hoard fat in the abdomen, so the probability of male beer belly is much higher than that of female.

People with beer bellies are prone to coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral embolism, breast cancer, liver and kidney failure and other diseases due to excessive abdominal fat. Moreover, research shows that the probability of men with beer bellies suffering from hypertension and diabetes is several times that of normal people, so we think that the incidence of cerebral hemorrhage and other diseases in men with beer bellies is higher.

Beer belly can be said to be a big invisible killer of middle-aged men. Everyone should be vigilant and don't get caught ~