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[Food] Restaurant meals are higher calories than fast food outlets
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It's caused by excess calories. Although you can get one without drinking at all, the shape is more indicative of excess alcohol, possibly because your liver is burning alcohol instead of fat?
Worrying ..... I have a small 'beer belly' but haven't eaten a kebab in 30 years. Can they really affect you after all that time ?
This.
You might have a point. I’ve never been convinced by the “water retention” argument.... more like cake retention.
A second on the lips, a life-time on the hips.
pearl
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schmunk
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I'm confused now. I have never eaten a kebab .... ever
I’m usually drunk when I go for one but never so drunk I can’t ever remenber.
I don't think so - I think the shape is because men generally put fat on their guts whereas women's tends to go on their thighs and backs. Men are associated with drinking beer specifically and the association is made. There's also some indication that calories from alcohol do not have the same effect as those from food. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/act.../Is-booze-making-you-fat-Not-necessarily.html
Thunder Bolt
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You need a lighter beer:
I don't like beer.
So, a proper meal is 1576 cals.
Men do indeed tend to put weight on their bellies, but it usually goes everywhere else too, while some drinkers get a beer belly while appearing slim elsewhere. I'm not convinced the idea of a beer belly is completely made up, but I don't know.
Well not all calories from food have the same effect anyway - protein, for example, requires more effort from the body to process. The article you linked to only seemed to suggest that a couple of units a day doesn't do much harm, but then no one was claiming you'd get a beer belly from 1 bottle of beer a day.