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How beer makes you fat:
20% of the alcohol is ingested into the stomach, the rest is absorbed into the intestines. The alcohol is brought to your liver through the bloodstream, where it’s broken down. During this process, certain waste products are created. These waste products signal your body to stop burning fat. At the same time, your body starts producing fat as a by-product of another waste product of the alcohol. Anything over the .5 to 1 ounce of alcohol that your body can process will result in a creation of fat additional to the calories ingested, while your body will simultaneously block the burning of this fat. As a reference, most drinks contain around .6 to 1.0 ounces of alcohol.
*Taken from Men’s Health (March 2007)
*Verified through “Total Nutrition”