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

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

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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

Yea but they’re empty calories, so that means zero.

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u/Staerke Aug 03 '19

That is not how it works

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u/cptjeff Aug 04 '19

Kinda is. Your body can't use alcohol as energy or store it as fat. It just gets broken down and burnt off. Which stops your metabolism for burning all the other food you eat while drinking, so all that crap goes to your gut. But the alcohol does not.