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Alcohols Effects on Metabolism
Alcohol provides empty calories. No nutritional benefit is derived
from alcohol. Alcohol is 7 calories per gram, which is almost as
high as fat in caloric content. In addition alcohol temporarily
slows down the metabolism. The effect of this is that less fat is
burned (lower BMR). Generally, high fat foods are consumed with
alcohol, which makes matters worse. Also, alcohol inhibits the liver
from metabolizing fat. As you can see any weight loss programs has
to exclude alcohol.
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