Are there a lot of calories in alcohol?
Relatively speaking, yes. In 1 gram of fat there are 9 calories. In 1 gram of alcohol there are 7 calories. In 1 gram of carbohydrates there are 4 calories. In 1 gram of protein there are 4 calories. However, you need to be careful in assuming that calories = fat or calories = weight gain. While it is true that alcohol has 7 calories per gram, this is largely because it is a fuel (indeed, most gas stations serve up 10% ethanol [drinking alcohol] 90% gasoline in the summer). See, what your body does is turns alcohol into acetalehyde, and then turns that into harmless acetic acid which you simply urinate out. So if the alcohol had 7 calories / gram but got converted to acetic acid and wasted out of your body, where did the calories go? Do you think that the calories from the alcohol molecule got leeched off in your liver and floated around your body until they turned into fat? Sounds pretty friggen dumb to me, too. In fact, recent studies have shown that those who drink small amounts of
