Calories in Wine?

[Alain_M]

@Fred C

Adds up very quickly. A couple of glasses a day is about 400 calories a day. 2000 a week assuming drinking 5/7 days and 8000 calories a month. That’s 2 solid lbs of fat a month. Even 1 glass a day is 1lb a fat a month. That’s why I had to stop the daily drinking and now I have a bunch of daily drinkers that will easily make it 10-15 years.

Good thing then that alcohol absorption is not working this way. Total calories and many other factors have to be taken into account.

I would recommend reading the following article on how alcohol is digested, and its impact on one’s diet:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html

Alain

[Vincent_Fritzsche]

@John M. Fodera

PS- There is absolutely no content about this topic on my blog.

Link???

[Eric_Ifune]

There may be a slight difference in metabolism of alcohol depending on where it’s absorbed, but it probably isn’t much. Absorbed in the gut, it’ll make it’s way via the portal vein directly to the liver. In the mouth, it will circulate systemicly before making it’s way to the liver. The majority of metabolism is done by the liver. Lesser amounts by the lungs. Once the first pass metabolism by the liver is saturated, however, the remaining alcohol will circulate systemically. Then the first order kinectics of alcohol metabolism occur. Injectable alcohol distributes systemically.

[Rick_Dalia]

@John Danza

@Al Osterheld

It doesn’t matter whether the alcohol gets into your bloodstream through your mouth or your stomach, once it’s in your bloodstream you’ve ingested the alcohol and its equivalent calories.

Hmmm… not sure I buy that. I’m not a doctor or a scientist, but I think it has to go through your digestive system to actually be consumed as calories. I believe the alcohol enters the blood stream through the tissues in your tongue and mouth. It would be good to hear from a doctor on this one.

I’m a doctor and here’s the truth: if you drink too much, and don’t compensate with exercise, you will gain weight. Really it’s that simple.

[John_Danza]

@Rick Dalia

@John Danza

@Al Osterheld

It doesn’t matter whether the alcohol gets into your bloodstream through your mouth or your stomach, once it’s in your bloodstream you’ve ingested the alcohol and its equivalent calories.

Hmmm… not sure I buy that. I’m not a doctor or a scientist, but I think it has to go through your digestive system to actually be consumed as calories. I believe the alcohol enters the blood stream through the tissues in your tongue and mouth. It would be good to hear from a doctor on this one.

I’m a doctor and here’s the truth: if you drink too much, and don’t compensate with exercise, you will gain weight. Really it’s that simple.

No question about that Rick. My comment was that I’m not bought in that alcohol brought into the bloodstream from the tissues in your mouth and tongue creates consumed calories the way that alcohol does if it goes through your digestive system. Can you address that?

[Rick_Dalia]

I’m not aware of any absorptive capacity of the oral mucosa. My guess is when tasting and spitting, invariably some liquid will pass to the stomach and beyond.

[Eric_Ifune]

There is some small absorption from the oral mucosa. Hence sublingual nitroglycerine and fentanyl. But the vast majority of alcohol if absorbed from the forgut.

[Rick_Dalia]

@Eric Ifune

There is some small absorption from the oral mucosa. Hence sublingual nitroglycerine and fentanyl. But the vast majority of alcohol if absorbed from the forgut.

Doh! (Homer Simpson style). How silly of me to forget this!

[Fred_C]

@Alain M

@Fred C

Adds up very quickly. A couple of glasses a day is about 400 calories a day. 2000 a week assuming drinking 5/7 days and 8000 calories a month. That’s 2 solid lbs of fat a month. Even 1 glass a day is 1lb a fat a month. That’s why I had to stop the daily drinking and now I have a bunch of daily drinkers that will easily make it 10-15 years.

Good thing then that alcohol absorption is not working this way. Total calories and many other factors have to be taken into account.

I would recommend reading the following article on how alcohol is digested, and its impact on one’s diet:

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html

Alain

The link is to a blogger “nutritionist consultant”. Hilarious! Did you actually read the link? You should look up information on pubmed and scientific literature, not from some random blogger. Any diabetic will tell you their doctors told them to cut back alcohol if not stop alcohol consumption, not drink more to increase insulin sensitivity.

From your link:

“If the effect of alcohol consumption on insulin sensitivity doesn’t impress you, then consider the fact that studies have consistently shown that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers.This can be mainly attributed to a lowered risk of cardiovascular disease. However, alcohol also contributes to a healthier and disease-free life by protecting against Alzheimer’s disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, the common cold, different types of cancers, depression and many other Western diseases. The list goes on and on.”

[John_M_Fodera]

@Vincent Fritzsche

@John M. Fodera

PS- There is absolutely no content about this topic on my blog.

Link???

Love ya bro! Here you go.

Www.linktonothing.com

Maybe it’s a Seinfeld link?

[thomasP]

Have I ever mentioned my hypothesis that diabetes and alcoholism may be related diseases? I have? Oh, well, I still think so…

[Alain_M]

@Fred C

The link is to a blogger “nutritionist consultant”. Hilarious! Did you actually read the link? You should look up information on pubmed and scientific literature, not from some random blogger. Any diabetic will tell you their doctors told them to cut back alcohol if not stop alcohol consumption, not drink more to increase insulin sensitivity.

From your link:

“If the effect of alcohol consumption on insulin sensitivity doesn’t impress you, then consider the fact that studies have consistently shown that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers.This can be mainly attributed to a lowered risk of cardiovascular disease. However, alcohol also contributes to a healthier and disease-free life by protecting against Alzheimer’s disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, the common cold, different types of cancers, depression and many other Western diseases. The list goes on and on.”

lol, did YOU read it ? There are at least 10 references to studies on pubmed in his article.

As for random blogger, just google his name and check the respect he has from very knowledgeable people, that might change your opinion.

As for insulin ? From the link I posted:
“Moderate alcohol consumption improves insulin sensitivity, lowers triglyceride concentrations and improves glycemic control. Not only in healthy folks, but also in type 2 diabetes.”
There are links to the studies on pubmed in this part, but again I don’t think you bothered reading them.

Wait, here’s another one:
“In conclusion, in healthy men, insulin sensitivity, as measured with the low-dose insulin and glucose infusion test, did not change after a 4-week reduction in daily alcohol intake from seven to one standard drink.”
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/26/3/608.full

Better luck next time.

Alain