How many calories does a pint really give you - and how much goes down the pan?!
How many calories does a pint really give you - and how much goes down the pan?
What I need to know is how many calories do you actually absorb when you drink a pint of larger. I know the calorific value of a pint is around 200 kcal but of that how much do you absorb and how much goes down the toilet?
Answers:
The body will use all of the 200 kcal. However, since the source of energy in the pint is mainly ethanol (there is also some dextrin but beer is 100% fat free), the body has no mechanism of storing the alcohol. So it is a case of use it or lose it. Since ethanol is a very easy fuel for the body to burn it will do just that. It will use the ethanol as a fuel in preference to breaking down fat so this means that while drinking it will use the ethanol as its preferred fuel, then probably the dextrin sugars and only when these fuels have run out will it start using fats. So anything that you eat while drinking alcohol (such as those high calorie peanuts, crisps or the pie and chips afterwards) will be stored as fat for later use. That is where the extra pounds will come from.
So, my advice is to drink happily (in moderation of course) but be careful about what you eat.
Source(s):
I did a bit of biochemistry once.
Good question. I'll watch this one.
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god i need to keep an eye on this question! All i know is every pint is like eatting a doughnut. I need to watch this question!! xx
If a pint is 200 kcal (I read a lot more, the double...), you keep in your body the 200 kcal!
It is like if you eat a croissant: a croissant is 300 kcal, you eat it, you absorb the 300 kcal.
Some people who drink too much don't need to eat of the day...
Drinking a pint of guiness is the equivalent of eating an entire loaf of white bread......
Hope that helps