Beer bellies revisited
Calories, carbs, beer, beer bellies. They all go together right? That must be why more and more products like Bud Select 55 are being released all the time.
Not so fast. At least one study suggests that beer bellies are not from drinking alcohol at all.
Charlie Papazian at Examiner.com tells us more:
I always look at century old paintings and wondered about those roly-poly folks dancing in the streets or sitting on a stool, smoking a pipe. Did all those overweight, jolly or austere men and women drink so much beer that they had beer bellies even in then.
400 and 500 years ago you couldn’t go down to you local market and pick up a 30-pack of cheap beer. You probably had to work at drinking a lot of beer, yet the belly has been with us for ages. It turns out a recent study by the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition may slim down your chances of getting a belly from too much beer.
No it doesn’t matter whether your wearing jeans or not, but evidently the study indicates that it might have something to do with your genes.
A study of thousands of beer drinkers found that although people who drink regularly are more likely to put on weight, they do not necessarily accumulate fat around the abdomen.