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Beer belly - Causes and tips to get rid of the fat belly
Even if wearers of such a belly, make the need for virtue, be it with T-shirts like "beer formed this beautiful body," or "a man without a stomach is not a man," the thick belly not only harbors aesthetic problems, but harms also the health. If fat accumulates in the abdomen and attaches itself between the organs, there is an increased risk of developing heart disease or developing diabetes.
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- Beer forms the beer belly?
- How many calories does beer contain??
- Alcohol and weight
- Why are the calories in the barley juice turning up??
- Why do men wear a beer belly??
- Fat and hormones
- The amount makes the fat
- The intoxication comes slowly
- Hangover and calories
- Jogging against the beer belly?
- Beer bellies and lean alcoholics?
- Alcoholism spoils the appetite
- What to do against the beer belly?
- The calories are relentless
Beer forms the beer belly?
Does beer drinking lead to the beer belly? This indicates that hops contain plant hormones that have similar effects to estrogen. These are supposed to cause a lot of fat to accumulate in the stomach and swell the breast. Proof of this is available. However, the yeast contained in the alcoholic beverage also contains estrogen and thus appears to promote beer whine, especially in comparison with wine that does not contain these plant hormones. Again, there are no studies that substantiate this folk wisdom.
Many people assume that a so-called beer belly is caused solely by beer drinking. (Image: SENTELLO / fotolia.com) That's one thing with hormones. The plant hormones are present in the beer in such a small amount that consumption would have to reach that of a serious alcoholic to influence the organism. But then an urgent suspect comes into play: the calories.
How many calories does beer contain??
Whether people gain, maintain or lose weight is not because of complicated diets, but because of a simple calculation: If I consume more calories than I consume, I suppose. If I take in as many calories as I need, I'll keep my weight. If I consume less energy from food than my body demands, the body resorts to reserves and I lose weight.
A half pint of pils contains about 200 calories, camps about 215 and maybock 270. So, two big beers correspond to a luscious piece of apple pie with sugar.
Alcohol and weight
In 2009, the German Institute for Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbücke examined how alcohol, body weight and waist circumference are related and evaluated data from 250,000 adults.
The results were clear: those who drank more than two glasses of alcohol a day and over the years each day grew in comparison to non-drinkers. The waistline grew about 1.1 cm for the men and about 1.5 cm for the women.
Why are the calories in the barley juice turning up??
The research today agrees that there is no beer belly in the narrow sense. The belly comes from the calories and not the beer. In this two calorie bombs play together: alcohol and fat.
The typical wearer of such a belly is characterized by doctors as a middle-aged to older man who likes to drink the barley juice and likes to eat.
A Bierwampe typically develops in men, as these store fat especially in the abdomen. (Image: PeJo / fotolia.com) Why do men wear a beer belly??
The typical Bierwampe wear especially men in front of him, and that has biological reasons. In men, fat accumulates above all in the abdominal area, in women, however, increased in thighs and buttocks.
Since the men's sweat usually looks firm, scoffers compare it to the belly of a pregnant woman. Bierbauchträger claim at times, because the stomach is firm, he does not contain fat. This is a dangerous delusion. Here, the fat accumulates visceral, ie inside the abdomen.
Fat and hormones
Now the weight can explode. This fat in the inner abdomen releases hormones that stimulate the appetite and lead to cravings. In addition, there are inflammatory agents that can affect blood vessels, disrupt lipid metabolism and even cause diabetes. It forms fatty acids that cause the liver to accumulate too much fat. An excess of inner abdominal fat increases the risk of suffering a heart attack.
The amount makes the fat
In comparison to fruit juices or soft drinks with sugar, the barley juice has relatively few calories, the yeast is also healthy and it provides us with important B vitamins. This is where alcohol and sweetness come into play.
Have you ever watched someone go to the pub and pour five liters of orange juice into their body? Or that at a party at night, three panic breaks out because the Coca-Cola supplies are running out?
This happens only in the rarest cases. Rather, the "rule" is that at a party of thirty to forty people, the four beer crates in the shower at midnight are empty, guests get supplies from the kiosk, at the deposit a significantly larger amount of beer bottles is available than the host bought, due to the guests' presents, while the single box of Coca Cola still contains full bottles.
We drink alcoholic drinks because we are thirsty to hold something in the company or digest food better. Even those who switch to alcohol-free beer will seldom have the need for a third or fourth after the second wheat.
Since beer contains less alcohol than schnapps, it usually only takes effect after several bottles in the case of habit drinkers. (Image: Michael Traitov / fotolia.com) The intoxication comes slowly
However, as beer contains less alcohol compared to schnapps, about 3-5% compared to 30%, trained drinkers have to drink at least three to four of them to get an effect. The humid get-together usually begins then, and those who do not want to be regarded as fun spoilers, the drinks as long as the party continues.
If you drink ten pils throughout the night, you've already reached your daily target of calories at normal weight and a height of 1.75 cm.
Now the barley juice is also very tricky. It induces hypoglycaemia in the brain and flours salts out of the body. The result: We feel an insatiable urge for chips, pretzels, burgers, French fries and candy.
Hangover and calories
So, after a night of drinking, we easily reach 3000 or even 4000 calories and put on fat. If you want to stay slim or slim, you should stay on average half a liter of beer a day and not drink one or two days a week. It is ideal if they also reduce fat in the form of meat and sausage and moderate exercise - from weight training to cycling and swimming.
Jogging against the beer belly?
Have you already eaten or drunk a bloated stomach? Then please do not come up with the idea of jogging extremely hard to get rid of him. In case of heavy obesity jogging stresses the joints and can even lead to arthritis in the knee.
Beer bellies and lean alcoholics?
When the calories in alcohol lead to Bierwampe, however, speaks the everyday experience that alcoholics are often malnourished in the clinical sense. Instead of a big belly, they show the ribs under their skin.
However, studies on the consumption of beer, which ran for over eight years, showed clearly that who drank much of it, became thicker, this was true for both the abdominal circumference as well as the body mass index. The subjects were not alcoholics in the strict sense of a physical dependence. Physicians today see the non-alcoholic components of the barley juice as a trigger for weight gain.
These also contain calories - Wheat beer is rightly not considered in southern Germany as alcohol, but as food. Unlike whole grain bread, however, the liquid calories in the beer do not provide a complete sense of satiety, but add an extra japp to foods containing sugar and salt - food that in turn contains many calories.
Alcoholism spoils the appetite
Hard alcoholics, on the other hand, do not spend much of their time on the popular barley juice. To get to their level, they would have to drink way too much of it too fast. That's why they prefer schnapps, especially clear brandy like grain or vodka. In this case, the calories consist mainly of alcohol. The schnapps acidifies the stomach, so that those affected do not feel hungry, but on the contrary a constant feeling of nausea. Since they barely eat, they do not increase, but decrease.
Documenting meals and consumed alcohol helps to keep track of ingested calories. (Image: Andrey Popov / fotolia.com) What to do against the beer belly?
The Bierwampe is actually a beer AND bratwurst belly or a beer AND pretzel belly. If you like to drink the barley juice, because of the alcohol, you also like to drink a lot of it. If you like to drink a lot of it, you also like to eat a lot of starch and sugar.
So how do we remove the big belly or prevent it from forming? For starters, there are even special apps today that can accurately calculate how many calories we can take in size, gender, and body weight without increasing or decreasing, and for foods, how many calories they contain.
However, social rituals stand in the way of this: Anyone who sits in the office with a beer in the morning will usually lose his job in the long term, but whoever drinks four or five of them in the pub after work in the pub is considered a sociable employee. But calories are indifferent to such cultural practices.
The calories are relentless
We measure in our culture with double standards. In the leisure time, at parties, a "over the strands" belongs to a certain extent, just so that we can work in the workplace, and it is associated, in the free time, everything "a little looser to see". With calories, however, such a dichotomy is fatal.
If we just let go of five and reach for the crisps on a drunken night while we nibble on kohlrabi sticks while working, the result is the same as when we consume salt and sugar during the day: we are gaining weight.
Even if it sounds hard: the best thing is to keep an alcohol and calorie diary. You can set this on your Partyrhtyhmus. If you are not the person who drinks a beer every day, but rather four or five, then you will not do it all during the week.
If you know you're getting calories in the form of barley juice and chips in the evenings, then you'll be driving down your calories during the day, riding a few rounds of bike or going for a hike in front of the pit. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)