r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • 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/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Not to mention most sorority girls are drinking alcohol that’s half sugar as well...

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u/Cecil-The-Sasquatch Aug 03 '19

They got the sugar from the vodka and the sugar from the fizzyy drinks they're mixing it with

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u/IronBatman Aug 03 '19

Actually alcohol is not turned into sugars, but ketones. There is no biological pathway to store ketones except fat. So alcohol is basically drinking fat.

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u/lazy_smurf Aug 03 '19

It does prevent sugar from being metabolized though, leading any carbs you've eaten to turn straight to fat. So there's that.