Scientific studies have shown that people who drink a moderate amount of alcohol are less overweight than people who drink a lot or people who do not drink at all.
Scientific studies have shown that people who drink a moderate amount of alcohol are less overweight than people who drink a lot or people who do not drink at all.
The various studies looked at how much people drank, how much they ate and how much they weighed.
By comparing these factors, researchers determined that although drinking alcohol leads to an increase in calorie intake and may lead to poor diet decisions, people who had one or two alcoholic drinks a day were actually less likely to be overweight.
One explanation for this is that alcohol increases metabolism.
Eric Rimm, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the 2010 review of alcohol in the federal dietary guidelines said: “It’s a modest amount. But if you take an individual that eats 100 calories in
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