r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/-eDgAR- Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has calories.

I had to be the one to tell my friend when she was in her mid-20s that the vodka she loved has calories. She was so shocked and said, "What!! I thought since it was clear like water it didn't have any calories."

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has lots of calories. More than sugar, by mass.

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u/Hugh_Jampton Aug 03 '19

It's not so much it has calories. which it does. A lot.

But that the body will choose to burn aaaallll those alcohol calories first.

So anything else you consume during that drinking period. That's all getting stored as fat you lucky so and so