Alcohol can interfere with fat burning

11/07/2009 by admin.

Our bodies use fat for fuel when we are doing low level activities such as watching the television or working on the computer.  However, we can influence our body’s ability to burn fat by our lifestyle.  Alcohol consumption can play havoc with our ability to burn fat.

We can only process up to a maximum of 1 oz of alcohol per hour.  Bearing in mind that 12 oz beer contains approx. 0.6 oz of alcohol, if you were to have a ‘bit of a session’ your body could stop burning fat for many hours to come, quite possibly the remainder of the evening.

Alcohol contains lots of sugar which your body will store as glycogen and if not burnt as energy will turn to fat.  Also, alcohol is seriously lacking in beneficial nutrients.  At 7 kcals per gram can you afford to over indulge?  

 So, if you want to lose weight then you should definitely cut down on your alcohol consumption.  There are lots of other health reasons related to high alcohol consumption but those are for another day.

Other factors which impact our ability to burn fat include lack of exercise, low calorie diets, lack of sleep and missing out on breakfast/meals.

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