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It would be great to drink all the beer you want and not have any of the effects. Although getting some of those effects often will be a good reason for drinking it. Drinking a few beers can be very relaxing but also give you a nice little buzz sometimes. However, it may also give you some negative effects like help in making you fat.

Certainly, a couple of drinks during the weekend or for some type of infrequent special occasion most likely won’t affect your overall fat one way or another. Of course, this really is assumes that you do some exercise once in a while. If you are trying to lose weight, these few beers may have some type of impact but not anything major. Still, any choices you make regarding drinking or eating will either help or hurt you every time.

Obviously, having the ability to enjoy life may include having a few drinks with your friends or family once in a while. I certainly cannot hold that against you? You really need to balance your life to get some enjoyment every once in a while.

However, drinking more than a few drinks of beer or alcohol everyday could be a great deterrent from keeping your current weight and/or reducing it. It’s hard to avoid consuming a couple 150 calorie beers every day without it affecting your fat content. Most people who do this don’t have the necessary bodily activity to burn off all these calories daily. Furthermore, these calories don’t have a lot of nutritional content.

Let’s look at just how many calories you could consume by having a couple beers everyday for a whole year. Two beers every day allow you to consume 300 extra calories everyday. This amounts to a total of 2100 every week. Extend this further to get a years amount of almost 110000 calories. This will actually come out to be around 31 pounds of fat gained annually. For most people, this will be rather difficult to lose.

Beer and alcohol helps prevent the burning of fat (using fat for the body’s energy). When person consuming it metabolizes the alcohol, the process assists in preventing him or her from appropriately metabolizing fat.

Think of the calories inside beer as no more than empty calories that actually take the room of calories you should have in their place. Although there might be some nutritional value inside, it is minimal. It will be much better to have some good food value calories that help your body instead of hurt.

Whether you are attempting to lose weight or not, drinking too much beer or alcohol will be self-defeating. It might be okay to drink a few during the weekend. A few means maybe one or two but not much more than that. Remember that whenever you’re taking in drinks or food, except for water, you’ll be ingesting calories. They don’t have to be fat calories to become fat in your body.

If you look at almost anyone that drinks a lot of beer everyday, you’ll see that on average many of them gain a lot of their fat in their stomach. Most experts see this generating fat around the mid-section as very problematic for overall health. They say it is a symptom of possible future heart disease.

So the next time you think about having more than one or two beers during the week, you might want to think differently. Instead of developing a craving for drinking down a beer, you might want to start trying something a little more healthy like eating fruit or vegetables. It might sound funny to tell someone that normally likes to drink beer to instead eat something like an apple, but if you really try, you’re bound to find some nutritionally sound food that will satisfy you.

Many of the studies that document the beneficial effects of alcohol have highlighted the virtues of red wine. Only recently has beer come to the foreground as a health-giving beverage. The published research papers cited below provide ample evidence that beer, when consumed moderately, may be even more salutary than wine.

Healthy Effects of Alcohol

The overall picture that has emerged is that consumption of alcohol in moderation is good for the cardiovascular system. Its consumption is associated with elevated levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL). Many drinkers have also been found to have less fibrinogen, a protein thought to be a culprit in the occurrence of strokes and thromboses. Alcohol has also been known to lower insulin levels, which in turn lessens the risk of atherosclerosis, a condition in which the arteries harden.

Several experiments, such as one conducted at the Institute of Epidemiology at the University of Münster in Germany, suggest that beer may lessen the risk of coronary disease. But a number of other studies demonstrate that the benefits of beer go beyond those attributed to the alcohol it contains.

Research from the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute in the Netherlands showed that levels of vitamin B6 in beer drinkers increased thirty percent while those who regularly consumed gin and red wine gained by only half that rate.

Study findings published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition’s July 2001 issue suggest that the presence of folate, the anion form of vitamin B9, is responsible for some of beer’s healthful effects. Folates have been known to fight cardiovascular disease.

One study conducted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and published in a 2001 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that beer consumed in moderation aided in the preservation of mental capacities in older women.

A study from Tufts University in Massachusetts shows that drinking beer, be it light or dark, helps to maintain the mineral density of the bones. The leg bones among elderly people are prone to thinning.

Risks Associated With Beer

What about the health risks associated with beer consumption?

There is enough evidence from research about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to warrant prohibiting women from drinking alcohol. A baby may suffer from brain disorders if the alcohol consumed by the mother passes through the umbilical cord and through the milk in her breasts.

Gaining weight can be a concern for beer drinkers. While beer contains no fat, one glass will have 150 to 450 calories, depending on the kind of brew. Counted in terms of volume, this amount is lower than the calories found in apple juice or red wine in a glass of similar size.

Other known adverse effects of excessive beer drinking include liver damage and stress on the kidneys. Amount of intake is, of course, a key factor in whether beer becomes a healthy or unhealthy drink.

Immediate Effects

Coffee is an example of a beverage that contains a less-than-desirable substance (caffeine) yet immediately provides benefits when taken in the right amount. The alertness that caffeine causes can be advantageous at work and when driving.

Drinking beer in excess does result in lowered mental acuity in the immediate aftermath, making automobile driving a high-risk undertaking. But when intake is moderate, beer becomes a relaxing drink that provides relief from stress, a known causative element in many diseases. It helps to remember that the drawbacks of intemperate drinking outweigh the advantages of controlled alcoholic beverage consumption.

The alcohol in beer provides modest B vitamins amounts, plus more useful quantities of magnesium, selenium and other trace elements. Beer is mostly water, which along with the alcohol, helps to cleanse the kidneys. Alcohol and the brewing process also help destroy bacteria in the water.

Needless to say, no single study or report on the health effects of beer can be considered definitive. But most suggest, that when taken in amounts exceeding no more than two 12-ounce glasses a day, beer will almost always be a great benefit, rather than a risk, to one’s health.