[Food] Restaurant meals are higher calories than fast food outlets

[banjo]

 

[Triggaaar]

I can't find a link now, but pretty sure I read that a beer belly is NOT caused by beer, but by kebabs.

It's caused by excess calories. Although you can get one without drinking at all, the shape is more indicative of excess alcohol, possibly because your liver is burning alcohol instead of fat?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I can't find a link now, but pretty sure I read that a beer belly is NOT caused by beer, but by kebabs.

Worrying ..... I have a small 'beer belly' but haven't eaten a kebab in 30 years. Can they really affect you after all that time ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I really wish more people would do this. Mrs W and I often take stuff away ..... many people seem to embaressed to ask though. In parts of France it's the law that restuarants offer the ability to take left food away.

I hate the waste I see in many restuarants in this country just because people won't ask. You've bloody well paid for it so it's yours to take away !

This.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I can't find a link now, but pretty sure I read that a beer belly is NOT caused by beer, but by kebabs.

You might have a point. I’ve never been convinced by the “water retention” argument.... more like cake retention.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Worrying ..... I have a small 'beer belly' but haven't eaten a kebab in 30 years. Can they really affect you after all that time ?

A second on the lips, a life-time on the hips.

 

[pearl]

I can't find a link now, but pretty sure I read that a beer belly is NOT caused by beer, but by kebabs.

Worrying ..... I have a small 'beer belly' but haven't eaten a kebab in 30 years. Can they really affect you after all that time ?

I'm confused now. I have never eaten a kebab .... ever

 

[schmunk]

Is that next? The calorific value of alcohol. It's not called a beer belly for nothing.

You need a lighter beer:

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'm confused now. I have never eaten a kebab .... ever

I’m usually drunk when I go for one but never so drunk I can’t ever remenber.

 

[Notters]

the shape is more indicative of excess alcohol, possibly because your liver is burning alcohol instead of fat?

I don't think so - I think the shape is because men generally put fat on their guts whereas women's tends to go on their thighs and backs. Men are associated with drinking beer specifically and the association is made. There's also some indication that calories from alcohol do not have the same effect as those from food. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/act.../Is-booze-making-you-fat-Not-necessarily.html

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You need a lighter beer:

I don't like beer.

 

[Titanic]

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So, a proper meal is 1576 cals.

 

[Triggaaar]

I don't think so - I think the shape is because men generally put fat on their guts whereas women's tends to go on their thighs and backs. Men are associated with drinking beer specifically and the association is made.

Men do indeed tend to put weight on their bellies, but it usually goes everywhere else too, while some drinkers get a beer belly while appearing slim elsewhere. I'm not convinced the idea of a beer belly is completely made up, but I don't know.

There's also some indication that calories from alcohol do not have the same effect as those from food.

Well not all calories from food have the same effect anyway - protein, for example, requires more effort from the body to process. The article you linked to only seemed to suggest that a couple of units a day doesn't do much harm, but then no one was claiming you'd get a beer belly from 1 bottle of beer a day.