Alcohol and Diet
It is notoriously known that alcohol causes putting on weight. Fortunately it is not true bacause I like drinking. Sometimes I need whole night for drinking. Actually the statement is not well-founded. It’s true only in the case of drinking alcohol in the combination with eating fat meals in the interval of 3 or 4 hours. Not to eat fat meals couple hours before drinking is only one solution.
During making of alcohol (except of destillate) the yeast fungus change the sugar into alcohol and it suck the energy from the alcohol then. In liver there is a opposite process. 50% energy of beer is the energy from sugar. Destillate contains a little bit of sugar (except of rum which contains the same amount of sugar as wine does), it is only ethanol,water and some volatile matter.
Sugar does not accumulate in the body and does not turn into fat but turns into energy. The rest of the energy from alcohol is energy from ethanol which is used to oxidation of ethanol (liquidation) and is used for thermoregulation. Metabolism is intensified because there is demand of more energy for oxidation of ethanol . In other words for liquidation of ethanol there have to be enough energy for this liquidation. This is in connection with the sudden warming-up during drinking. What’s most important, alcohol is a toxin and if the liver did not get rid of this toxin it would have death consequences.
If we consume a big amount of alcohol it makes liver overloaded because it must get rid of it and that’s why liver can’t do the common activities like to supply blood with sugar. If we do not eat for long time the liver has to supply blood with sugar to certain level no matter whether the source is resources of fat or proteins. But in the case liver must do liquidation of ethanol, it can’t do this job. And the consequences? Not enough sugar in blood and minimal fat burning. If it to be a contrary it does not work even turning fat into energy if it was consumed in the time of drinking alcohol. So there is a tendency to storing fat in the shortest way.
1/5 of alcohol is absorbed in stomach and the rest in small intestine, that’s why we’ve got interesting flatus after booze. 90% of alcohol is removed from organism by oxidation and it is happening in liver. It depends on the human weight.