Date: August 22, 2008
Time: 11 PM
Place: Kitchen
Alcohol is a carbohydrate, but doesn't convert to glucose like most carbs do, but is converted into a fatty acid and is consequently more likely to store as fat. So if you drink alcohol and exercise, it puts fat metabolism on "hold".
The caloric content of alcohol is seven calories per gram. A shot of gin contains around 110 cals, while an average 12-oz beer contains 146 cals, 13 gms of carb, and some vitamins and minerals.
Being the most abused drug in the United States, alcohol affects many people's lives out there. It is a Central Nervous System depressant. There is very little difference in the amount of alcohol that will get you drunk and the amount that will kill you. The reason more don't die from alcohol, is because the stomach begins to reject it by vomiting.
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