Study Shows Average Wine Drinkers Can Become Fatter

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If you’re a typical average wine drinker then you could be putting on half a stone of weight according to a campaign group. The reason for highlighting this is without even realising you could be gaining 2000 calories extra per month.

From a simple wine habit sometimes when we do things, we don’t actually consciously think about how much we are doing something and often they can be hidden causes to our own weight gain without us being aware of that fact

In the UK we are becoming one of the fatter nations of Europe ,and we are becoming classed as a nation of somewhat heavy drinkers, if say for instance you have a bottle of red wine a night every so often, then a woman would consume the equivalent of eight days worth of calories within a week.

Now put this into a equation over a year, then you would put on two stone a year unless you compensated by exercising or slashing your food intake. In another scenario involving a man if he was to consume five pints of beer, then his calorie intake would be 44,200, this would equate to 12 pounds gained in fat over the year.

A survey which was conducted by the Know Your Limits, which revolved around alcohol consumption, found that people would eat high calorie snacks to complement their beer, these would be things like pork scratching’s, crisps and nuts.

Other people would consume things like burgers, or some other take-away after consuming two pints of beer or wine.One of the actual reasons this tends to happen is, when you drink alcohol your blood sugar goes crashing right down so when you have been for a drinking session, it doesn’t take long before you start to get hungry. This is probably one of the reasons why take-away food establishments tend to be close to public houses.

You only need to consume and excess of 500 calories per day which times by seven equals 3500 calories, in order to gain one pound of fat, so it doesn’t take long before it starts to add up and the pounds start to pile on.

It’s not just about the drink that your drinking is what happens with it, if you eat fatty foods as well then it is quite logical that you will gain weight

Here is a comprehensive list of the amount of calories that in drinks, so you have some idea of how many you are consuming.

• One large glass of red wine = 214 calories
• One bottle of wine = 644 calories
• One large glass of white wine = 190 calories
• One bottle of white wine = 570 calories
• One pint of beer/lager = 330 calories
• One pint of cider = 200 calories
• One hundred milliliter glass of Bailey’s = 320 calories
• One shot of vodka = 55 calories

So by looking at the above it’s plain to see that if we have regular drinking habits, then we will be will start to pile on the pounds. There is nothing wrong with having a glass of wine every now and again or drink. But it’s better to be more aware of what you are doing whilst you are consuming it.

As with everything if you keep it to within moderation then you should be fine, just try not to eat 20 bags of pork scratchings is whilst you are out in a public house.

Do you think this represents a particular picture in Britain today ? please let me know I would be interested to know what you think.

Source and data http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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