ALCOHOL

I know many people enjoy a drink or two but here’s just a few health & fitness facts to keep in mind:

Alcohol can't be stored as energy in the muscles (since it’s not a nutrient), so it's stored as fat instead. Welcome to the party, flabby belly!

Alcohol is second only to fat in the amount of calories per gram.

Alcohol also gets in the way of metabolizing carbohydrates used for energy so the body – since you redirected the liver’s positive function to just focusing on metabolizing the alcohol – isn’t using its power for fat burning.

Studies have also discovered drinking alcohol can cause the pancreas to secrete its digestive enzymes inside itself rather than sending them to the intestine to digest nutrients properly. This can inflame the pancreas and halt transportation of key nutrients to the bloodstream.

And for those of you like me, who concentrate on building muscle, alcohol has proved to diminish protein synthesis which stops muscle growth by preventing the repair of damaged muscles.

Alcohol also decreases levels of human growth hormone (HGH), which helps the body build muscle.

Alcohol even interferes with protein digestion and absorption.

No one is saying NEVER drink alcohol or that its pure EVIL but just try to focus on moderation and compensation.