When you eat a meal with a lot of alcohol, your body stops burning fat and makes less of the hormone that tells you you're full, more than when you eat the same calories from other foods.

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Meals with similar energy densities but rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, or alcohol have different effects on energy expenditure and substrate metabolism but not on appetite and energy intake

Cross-Sectional Study

Human

2003 Jan

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Meals with similar energy densities but rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, or alcohol have different effects on energy expenditure and substrate metabolism but not on appetite and energy intake

Score: 31

DOI: 10.1093/AJCN/77.1.91

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Even though alcohol makes your body stop burning fat, it doesn’t stop your blood fat levels from rising — they go up just as much as if you ate a fatty meal.

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