A beer belly is created by drinking beer. Once in a while. A beer belly can also be caused by excessive eating and too little exercise, but then it should not actually be called a beer belly. Why do sturdy beer drinkers have that bulging belly, is it dangerous and how can you lose weight again or train the belly away?
Beer belly does not exist
Whoever has in mind that a beer belly is a storage of beer, is wrong: the beer belly does not exist. What does exist is fat storage around the abdominal organs. When the area around the abdominal organs is provided with fat, the fat is deposited outwards, causing the abdomen to bulge. Among sturdy beer drinkers, this is known as the beer belly.
Lots of calories in beer
People who drink a lot of beer also consume many useless calories. Useless because beer contains no vitamins. In addition, beer also contains no proteins, making it also useless for cell building. Beer contains a lot of bad carbohydrates that are converted into fat. This fat is stored in the body for worse times. As long as the worse times don’t come, the body keeps storing fat instead of consuming it.
A glass of beer contains around 85 kcal. Whoever drinks ten glasses of beer per day, therefore consumes 850 kcal per day. In addition, beer boosts the appetite: beer makes you eat more chips and nuts and is more likely to be hungry for pizza or fries. In addition, many beer drinkers also place their daily fat floor in the stomach: by working a fatty meal in, the stomach reacts less sensitively to alcohol. In this way, many calories are consumed unnoticed. This is a common problem especially with daily beer drinkers. Because alcohol is addictive, beer drinkers are often not aware of the dangers of beer belly and alcohol consumption. Drinking beer often comes in as well. It starts with one glass during dinner and before you know it you drink more than ten glasses a day. This may seem like an exaggeration, but more and more people are becoming home drinkers. A home drinker drinks more than two glasses of alcohol a day, outside of drinking in a public place such as a cafe.
Beer belly without drinking beer
A beer belly can also occur without drinking beer or other alcoholic beverages. Often wrong eating habits are the cause. Too many wrong fatty foods and sugars are the biggest culprits. In this case we are not talking about a beer belly but a fat belly, overweight or too large a waist circumference. There is no question of a real beer belly. In both cases the waist circumference cannot be called healthy: an increased fat storage around the abdominal organs entails an increased health risk. One must then mainly think of heart problems and vascular disease.
Train away your beer belly
Can you train away a beer belly through exercises? Yes and no. Only abdominal exercises help nothing. The belly really doesn’t get away from that. People will have to adjust their eating habits and / or not to drink beer. In addition, a lot of exercise will have to be done. By consuming more calories than comes in through the diet, the body will use the stored fat. Consideration should be given to the amount of food: eating too little will ensure that the body actually saves even harder fat. A good training in which cardio and strength training are alternated, can ultimately cause the beer belly to disappear. This requires a long breath: often fat first disappears in other places.
Stopping drinking (excessive) alcohol also has other benefits. Alcohol has many nasty properties such as causing stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cirrhosis, damage to the brain, high blood pressure, brain haemorrhage etc. Moderate drinking of alcohol, this means no more than 2 glasses per day, has a beneficial effect against clogging blood vessels . However, this only applies to men over 40 and women over 50 years. Alcohol has no beneficial effect for young people.
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