What is it about beer that gives people a “beer” belly?”
There’s nothing special about beer that causes a beer belly. A beer belly is just abdominal fat, along with a general low body muscle tone. Some people their fat on their abdomen; others don’t. You can get a beer belly by eating too many calories and not getting enough exercise, whether you drink beer or not. The association of a beer belly with beer drinkers is just that the stereotypical beer drinker drinks beer while watching physical activity rather than actually doing it. Beer has a lot of calories; even a light beer typically has 100 calories. It’s not at all difficult to consume 300 to 600 extra calories, all of them surplus because there’s no nutritional content in most beer. This is also typically a man rather than a women, and the sagging chest and abdominal muscles contribute to the protruding abdomen. A woman with the same form of obesity ends up with a general top-heaviness rather than the classic “beer belly” because of the way a woman’s body distributes fat, which includ
