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COUGARPALOOZA! & More Diet Freakonomics: Boozing Can Help You Lose, If You’re A Crafty Early-Middle-Aged Lady

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Thinking Out Loud, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

COUGARPALOOZA! & More Diet Freakonomics: Boozing Can Help You Lose, If You’re A Crafty Early-Middle-Aged Lady
ellen barkin oceans 13 red sweater glasses

-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…

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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!


Photo Credits:
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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