Does beer cause beer bellies?
Look around any pub and you’ll see a familiar sight they’re big, gorgeous and all their own work … beer bellies! Take these three blokes from Melbourne: Warren, Mark and Mick. You don’t develop beer bellies like theirs without some pretty dedicated drinking. Beer lover Warren: “Just come off a pretty solid weekend of, well, let’s call it binge drinking. It was fun, it was probably a good 35 to 40 pots. Forty pots in one weekend! That can’t be good. What about his mate Mark? “When at the pub it’s nice to have some chips or some nuts …” Health food, that’s bound to help. Mick: “I don’t know what these guys are complaining about. They don’t have a gut between them.” Oh Mick, surely that lager’s making you larger and that stout must be making you stouter? Or is it? “I do drink beer. I like beer,” says our gut guru, Melbourne GP, Dr Harry Hemly. “A beer belly is the accumulation of fat around the midriff, which is really associated with the too much intake of the fats and carbohydrates.”
