Stop alcohol to lose extra pounds is as useful as stopping sweets. Zero alcohol, the real tip for weight loss? In any case, this is what the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) advises, which recalls that alcohol can promote weight gain and overweight, and therefore increase the risk of cancer. Being overweight is indeed the second risk factor for cancer after smoking.
“Reducing alcohol consumption can play a big role in losing weight or maintaining a normal weight,” says Kate Mendoza, director of health information at WCRF. Recent studies have shown that alcohol users are often unaware of the calories in alcoholic beverages and do not factor them into their daily calorie intake “.
To understand the effects of alcohol on weight, the foundation provides comparisons: drinking a pint of beer a day would increase the risk of liver and bowel cancer by 25%.
In terms of calories, two 175 ml glasses of wine (or a pint of lager) provide 248 calories, or the equivalent of three chocolate cookies. To eliminate this amount of alcohol, it would take 25 minutes of walking.
And two pints of cider is the equivalent of six chocolate cookies. To eliminate them, count 1h42 of steps. There the legs start to heat up …
Alcohol, a direct role in certain cancers
Alcohol is itself a risk factor for certain cancers. A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association established a direct link between alcohol and breast cancer risk : drinking three to six glasses of wine per week would increase this risk by 15%. Alcohol may also increase the risk of cancer of the larynx and esophagus.
