Beer can help you lose more weight than exercise (high five)

Shawn Norris

A British-based consumer group called Campaign for Real Ale claims that drinking beer is the best alcoholic choice if you are trying to lose weight. OK, I’m listening…

Swapping a daily glass of wine for a beer could help you save as many calories as you would by taking a 30-minute jog, a U.K.-based consumer group claimed Tuesday.

Seriously? There is no numerical data to back this up and so I’m just going to go ahead and give the Campaign for Real Ale the benefit of the doubt here. Although I feel it’s kinda crazy to think drinking a beer rather than a glass of wine could save you a trip to the treadmill. But again, “a 30-minute jog” can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Some of us will probably run a little faster than others, so I’m just going to go ahead and assume if I try and run twice as fast as usual, I’ll be able to drink twice as many beers without gaining weight.

“The major source of calories in any alcoholic drink is the alcohol itself, and because beer is the drinks category with the lowest average alcohol content, it is also lowest in calories — so for someone looking to lose weight, swapping their glass of wine for a beer every day would … cut out more calories than are burned off during a typical 30-minute jog.”

Ha! All of you wine drinkers are going to get fat — but not us beer drinkers! I’m going to enjoy this beer and then I’m going to hop on a treadmill anyway and make my svelte, beer drinking figure even more–hey, I’m kinda drunk let’s order the cheese sticks. What was I saying? Oh yeah, I’m going to be soooooooo skinny after drinking this. You go ahead and drink your snooty wine, fatty, while I drink a single beer that is sure to transform me into Kate Moss.

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