allgrownup Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Why drinking alcohol makes us hungry https://www.dw.com/en/why-drinking-alcohol-makes-us-hungry/a-37111288 “alcohol activates brain cells that usually promote hunger, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London say.” “In mice studies, they identified a type of brain cell that fires in the presence of alcohol. These same brain cells are active when the body is starving, telling us it is high time to consume a lot of high-caloric food.” “The researchers simulated an "alcoholic weekend" for their lab mice, as they put it. For three days in a row, they injected the mice with an ethanol-water solution. The alcohol amount per day was about the same as what a human would ingest when drinking one and a half bottles of wine a day. As a consequence, the mice became quite hungry: They ate between 10 percent and 25 percent more food on days on which they'd been given ethanol.” “After three glasses of wine, people ingest about 6,300 extra calories in the following 24 hours, according to a survey conducted by UK market research firm YouGov and commissioned by the weight loss organisation Slimming World.” “That people get hungry after a night of drinking has puzzled researchers for a long time. After all, alcohol itself is highly energetic: One gram of pure ethanol - the alcohol in beverages - has 7.1 kilocalories. Only fat is richer in energy.” “As a consequence, alcoholic drinks are doubly bad for losing weight: They have a lot of calories and make you eat even more. maybejames, oatmeal and empee 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oatmeal Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Lots of wine and late night eating fueled my wifes gain. I try to get her drinking as early in the evening as seems reasonable hoping that it will lead to more wine and sometimes 4th meal. empee, allgrownup and spaced21 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empee Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I hope diet soda has the same effect because that’s what only fuels my wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smith Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 5 hours ago, empee said: I hope diet soda has the same effect because that’s what only fuels my wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BindsThatTie Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 It should be noted that the body priorities metabolizing alcohol over any other energy source until the alcohol is 100% metabolized. Thus anything you consume while alcohol is in the bloodstream is stored as body fat. That's the real cause of the freshman 15. It's not always the alcohol itself, it's the late night eating with the alcohol that is packed directly on to the body. Alcohol has been the fuel behind my wife's gain. Half of her daily calories come from her drinks and beer(s) with dinner. Wine was giving her heartburn so she switched to vodka w/soda. So now we have soda in the house which she also grabs for instead of water pushing her daily calories up even further. maybejames, neo, oatmeal and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I copy that. My wife weight issues are 90% tied to her wine every evening. Also even more on holidays. It is a real accelerator at least for her. oatmeal and BindsThatTie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gggg Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 100% true. Alcohol is the main culprit behind my fiancée's "perfect" high school body being "ruined" by this belly after college. Before and after she began drinking... oatmeal, Demoncrap, jnjff and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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