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A beer boepie -- you've managed to acquire one. According to your mother-in-law, it's
because you spend the weekends sitting in your chair, eating too much food and drinking
beer with your mates. Her fix, which she eagerly shares every opportunity she gets, is that
YOU get out of that chair and fix all the stuff around the house, that needs fixing
i.e. eat less,move more. Research from Mount Sinai Medical Centre suggests the old girl
has got it wrong. No, no, no, no.......stop celebrating. She's right, you do need to "fix"
that beer belly it's a heart attack waiting to happen. What she's got wrong is the "fix"
- a simple calorie management approach, won't work. Your beer belly is not being caused
by a calorie problem per se, even if you are eating too much and exercising too little.
The problem is routed in the alcohol. In this episode of Better Body Chemistry we discover
why beer drinking on the weekend, is making you insulin resistant the rest of the week.
Better Body Chemistry TV is brought to you by Dr Sandy. A scientist turned gremlin buster,
HELPING YOU, battle sugar gremlins, heffa-lumps & other health horribles, through BETTER BODY
CHEMISTRY. Small things can make a big difference to your health. The discovery that weekend
beers cause trouble the rest of the week, was made when researchers threw a big party
for a group of rats. The lab bash lasted three days...... some of the rats attending the
party, had an opportunity to get a little tipsy, the rest of animals, indulged in fine
food. Okay, it wasn't that fancy, they were fed standard rat chow, but they spent the
weekend chomping. The tipsy rats were kept liquored up by the research team, receiving
3 g/kg of alcohol per day -- this set up was designed to simulate a weekend of binge drinking.
The researchers also designed the experiment in such as way that the rats enjoying the
fine dining, consumed the same number of calories as the rats who got to "drink" the whole weekend.
So the calorie intake was identical for all the rats, but the metabolic consequences were
different. When the party was over.......... for the purposes of this experiment, the party
was over when the alcohol had been cleared from the system. The researchers checked up
on the rats metabolic status, specifically how they were handling their sugars. Sugar
levels were absolutely normal..... so on paper nothing to "worry" about. BUT the rats that
had been under the influence, all exhibited significantly higher insulin levels in their
blood. Now an increased insulin levels are a sign that the animals had become insulin
resistant. The insulin resistance that the team observed, persisted for 54 hours after
they stopped drinking. So the metabolic hang over lasted for just over 2 days. So what
? Well, in a nut shell, for 2 plus days, the rats were in fat storing mode..... So everything
that was eaten, went into storage and insulin's preferred storage spot................you
guessed it, the belly. Explains the beer boepie ! It also helps explain why, following a bout
of beer drinking, your appetite can become supercharged - there is nothing to burn, so
you have to load up on calories just to keep going. Although let's just clarify............if
you overdo it, you may have to wait for the REAL HANG OVER to pass, before your appetite
kicks in. A beer belly is not exactly flattering, but the real problem is the insulin resistance.
You see insulin resistance is what causes metabolic syndrome, that means you have high
sugar levels, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides. So I'm sorry to tell you
.............. it's the beer that is the problem. Now I sound like your mother-in-law, sorry
! There is a caveat to this story, the rats were in party mode and they did A LOT of drinking,
over their weekend. A LOT. Researchers have discovered, that little alcohol can be beneficial,
the reason, it slows down things and this helps rein in insulin. So you can have some
beer, just sip it with dinner. You don't want insulin to have to chase after his bag, so
don't overdo it. And make sure you do what you can to rein in those insulin levels. For
more tips and advice on keeping insulin in check............ visit the Better Body Chemistry
website at www.betterbodychemistry.com. Browse our library...........sign up for one of our
free e-courses. The advice is SIMPLE to follow and based on REAL science, not hype. Got friends
or family sporting a beer belly. Nagging won't help, but a little education might -- so spread
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create Better Body Chemistry and better health. Thank you so much for watching and I will
see you next time on Better Body Chemistry TV. Remember small things can make a big difference
to your health.