Drinking doesn`t make you fat

It sounds too good to be true. But on Saturday the Mail carried extracts from an extraordinary new book by science writer TONY EDWARDS, drawing on a wealth of medical evidence, that says alcohol is good for your health.

Anyone who’s ever gone on a diet is told to lay off the booze because it’s high in calories.

And that, of course, must make it very fattening indeed. 

Go onto the NHS Direct website, and you’ll be told a glass of wine contains as many calories as a slice of cake.

Or if you prefer beer, the British Nutrition Foundation reminds you two pints are roughly the equivalent in calories to a full glass of single cream. 

So you may be surprised to learn that there’s no scientific evidence whatsoever to support the idea that alcohol makes you put on weight. 

That’s hugely counter-intuitive, I know, because alcohol certainly is said to contain lots of calories.

But the curious fact remains that alcohol isn’t fattening.


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