What is worst drinking… Beer or Spirits?
Yes, beer has over twice as many calories as spirits have. Also, spirits are all alcohol, so they only have calories, but beer has protein, carbs, and sodium along with the alcohol.** Although, about the beer belly: “Commonly misattributed to excess alcohol calories being stored as fat, the “beer belly” is actually a result of alcohol’s more complex effects on the body’s metabolic system. Simply put, alcohol reduces the amount of fat the body burns for energy.”* So it’s the alcohol itself that makes your belly bigger, in this case beer and spirits are equal culprits. But overall, strong liquors such as Whiskey, Vodka, Rum, and Gin have fewer calories, no protein, carbs, or sodium, and will not cause you to gain weight as fast as beer would.
