What those beer commercials don’t tell us about alcohol
According to conventional wisdom, the infamous “beer belly” is caused by excess alcohol calories being stored as fat. Yet, less than five percent of the alcohol calories you drink are turned into fat.
Rather, the main effect of alcohol is to reduce the amount of fat or carbohydrate your body burns for energy, along with increasing your appetite and dramatically decreasing your testosterone levels. Continue Reading »
What could you do with an extra 12 years?
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“Eat right, exercise, die anyway.”
This was on a T-shirt given to me by a very skeptical person that eats no vegetables (except French fries/potatoes) or fruit (unless it’s juice), smokes, drinks alcohol like a pro and doesn’t exercise.
He also happens to be my brother.
He is fond of saying that he is going to outlive me – just for the sheer irony of it. However, chances are that will not happen. Now there is even some data to prove it.