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-Sorry, Cast of ‘Sex and The City’.
Ok, ok; actually, the study said, “Women” so I guess you qualify; somehow.
Anyway; –Counterintuitive, right? But there it is.
In the study group of 19,000+ subjects 38.9 years or older, women who had Moderate alcohol intake of ~1.5-2 drinks/day were about 30% less likely to get heavier and 70% less likely to become Obese, than the Zero-Drinking Group.
-BOOM!!!
Ok, the title’s a ~little bit misleading. There is No real magic here. -Except in my pants.
It’s 2 3 things.
1) The moderate-drinking women were clearly better than their sisters at SUBSTITUTING drink-calories for meal-calories and not having a net-excess.
2) There was Significant Calorie-Wasting in the metabolism of alcohol.
-That strangely enough, only occurred in Women and not Men;
The Reason Is that women have significantly less of the enzymes that metabolize alcohol.
(alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) & cytochrome P450IIE1 (CYP2E1))
One because of their smaller livers and thus less enzyme CYP2E1 to process a given drink amount.
The other (ADH) because God is clearly a Man who works for a living, and meant for that excess alcohol to go from the bloodstream straight to women’s heads and get them hammered quickly, effectively and cheaply. -all while keeping their figures; -rrOWrrr.
-Especially since the enzyme-effect makes 1 drink for a woman like ~2 for a man.
Mein GOTT in HIMMEL! IT’S FOUR!, FOUR!, FOUR PRESENTS IN ONE!
-OR…: It might also be because women who got hammered faster ended up having more babies,
and it’s just Evolution’s “Survival Of The Friskiest”
I mean if Ancient Nubians were making beer 2000 years ago, and the earliest examples are between 5500 and 11,500 years old…
A Couple Odd Notes:
3) The net loss occurred only women Over a certain age and Under a certain BMI.
I’m thinking this goes back to “Being Fat Makes You Fatter”. -But in this case, the heavier women probably had BOTH
a)More Enzymes due to increased mass; -so greater calorie+fat storage,
and b) Probably worse calorie-substituting chop-socky.
4) The results were also confirmed across all groups of women for ~13 years out; -even when things like Smoking, Physical Activity, and Initial BMI were considered.
*5) (spc. note) Other studies have discouraged having more than 1 drink per day for other health reasons.
–>So, if you think this a little further out,
This is AWESOME NEWS! -Women who are fit and reasonably slim and who have the experience to KNOW STUFF should go out and get a little drunk on a More regular, but healthwise and financially-responsible basis.
-Just call me first & let me know where you’re hanging out.
EVERYBODY WINS!
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Publicity photo of Ellen Barkin for the movie, “Ocean’s Thirteen”, by Melinda Sue Gordon and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
“Mountain Lion”, by Scott Snyder, clearcaptures.com
Links:
• Source: AIM-Alcohol Consumption, Weight Gain, and Risk of Becoming Overweight in Middle-aged and Older Women
• via: LATimes
• More Coverage: AJCN-Patterns of weight change and their relation to diet in a cohort of healthy women
Obesity-Alcohol Intake and 8-Year Weight Gain in Women: A Prospective Study
AJCN-The Case of The Missing Calories
Alcoholism.About.com-Alcohol Metabolizing Enzymes
AJCN-Alcohol, body weight, and weight gain in middle-aged men
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