Calorie Content of Foods

“Hey man, come on over and let’s have a beer”. For sure you have heard this many, many times before. If women drink tea, men would drink beer. As they say, beer is the drink of a real man as it makes the hair on the chest grow. Fact or fallacy, this notion is presumably believed by most men as evidenced by the 100 billion liters of beer consumed annually worldwide. “A beer” becomes 2, 3 and often times ends with several six packs in one sitting. If beer makes a man a real man then beer makes the real man a fat one too. How many times have you seen men with protruding bellies? Yikes, very off-putting! They can hardly see their feet. People have a notion that as compared to ice cream, cheese burgers and other fat and sugar rich foods, a beer would seem so harmless. True enough as compared to these foods; a beer would have relatively low calorie content. A 12 oz. can of Budweiser beer would have around 145 calories while a cup of ice cream’s calorie content would range from 200 to 300. Beer drinking would make a person fat for the simple reason that a beer drinker would not stop at one beer. Imagine how soothing a glass of ice cold beer would be. Beer drinking would be more satisfying if you have a plateful of nachos, nuts and other fattening finger foods. Although there is no fat in beer, drinking several glasses on a nightly basis would cause the calorie content of the beer to add up. The body converts a portion of the beer into fat; a large portion is converted into acetate, released into the blood stream and used as the body’s source of energy. You would think this is okay as the body is burning the alcohol. Actually, it is harmful to the body as instead of being burned and used by the body, the fat is stored. This would account for the obesity of most beer drinkers. Three types of beer are sold in the market- the light, the regular and the dark beer. Based on a 12 oz serving, the light beer has 110 calorie content; the regular beer has 150 calories and the dark beer have 168 calorie content. As most beers have no nutrition information on its labels it would be up to the beer drinker to figure out if he had enough or if he would still want more not withstanding the result…a big beer belly.