Best beers for losing weight

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invisibleman53 wrote: »

There is no such thing as a beer to help lose weight anymore than there is a steak that helps. Its all calories in and calories out. Too much beer is just like eating too much sugar, not healthy, in fact alcohol will be turned into a sugar for the body to use so you're just overloading on more sugar. No more than a glass of wine or 2 beers per day for good health.

Not to derail the thread here, but alcohol is NOT converted to sugar and almost none of the alcohol consumed by humans is actually converted to fat:

https://leangains.com/the-truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle-growth/

from the article:

"This makes sense considering that the metabolic by-product of alcohol, acetate, is toxic. Metabolizing it takes precedence over everything else. This quote sums up the metabolic fate of alcohol nicely:

Ethanol (alcohol) is converted in the liver to acetate; an unknown portion is then activated to acetyl-CoA, but only a small portion is converted to fatty acids.

Most of the acetate is released into the circulation, where it affects peripheral tissue metabolism; adipocyte release of nonesterified fatty acids is decreased and acetate replaces lipid in the fuel mixture.

Hellerstein MK, et al (1999).
Acetate in itself is an extremely poor precursor for fat synthesis. There’s simply no metabolic pathway that can make fat out of alcohol with any meaningful efficiency. Studies on fat synthesis after substantial alcohol intakes are non-existent in humans, but Hellerstein(from quotation) estimated de novo lipogenesis after alcohol consumption to ~3%. Out of the 24 g alcohol consumed in this study, a measly 0.8 g fat was synthesized in the liver."

The alcohol isn't really the problem - its the carbs in the beer (or wine) that get stored as fat while the alcohol from the beer is being eliminated.

So (to bring this back on topic) - the actual solution is to drink less beer and consume fewer munchies while drinking the beer.

xxxNavarroKinesiologyGodxxx

I usually tend to drink a few beers a week. I usually try to consume less alcohol volume and more bang for your buck. IPA’s are usually what I aim for or two glasses of wine.