I've never been "blue pilled". I was raised in a very traditional household, I sort of had a 1950s upbringing which I'm eternally grateful for.
So seeing the nuclear family and having a non feminist, stay at home mother, and a strong father, made it where I naturally despised feminism and these chip on their shoulder liberal female teachers as soon as I encountered them from early age.
But there was a moment I want to highlight as utterly retarded that made me realize that a large chunk of adults and people in general are profoundly stupid and it happened in 9th grade.
It was gym class and Supersize me had come out about 3 years prior, and the gym teacher, a man btw, has our gym class for that day be to watch that documentary.
I could not believe that anyone would be so dumb as to think that documentary was some sort of eye-opening revelation.
The second I knew the concept of it, the only thought was "duh".
Don't eat Mcdonalds every day, it's not good to do that. Where can I contact the Pulitzer prize people, because the brain trust behind that mind-blowing exposé needs to receive it retroactively.
I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone that a grown man would think that this documentary would be an exercise in anything but 1 hour of stating the obvious.
The fact that the documentary itself was incredibly pretentious didn't help either.
And then the dawning realization that it's not just a gym teacher showing this, and students watching it, but some studio actually paid money to get this made.
It really made me question the intelligence of mankind as a whole. Something everyone knows gets made into a documentary. (And yes I know the documentary was full of lies and fudging, but even without those lies, if you need a film to tell you not to eat Mcdonalds too frequently, then you're not long for this world).
Anyways, I just was baffled such a thing existed, and that teachers thought it would be eye-opening to students. I looked around thinking "is everyone morons"?
It would be years of further red-pilling until I finally got my answer...yes. The answer is yes.
What a nice piece of esoteric BS.
You can get fat drinking alchool because alchool is calories that your body is able to use as energy too.
It dosen't ''reduce your ability to burn calories''. It is extra calories and you are storing the excess calories as fat.
Of course it is also ''mildly'' toxic. But that part has nothing to do with weight gain.
nope. because the human body can't store alcohol calories but can store other calories, the body goes straight to storing the other stuff while processing the alcohol. your body doesn't do this with many other caloric sources. and alcohol calories are different in that they're a relatively high loss rate (lost as heat rather than glycogen synthesis). this drastically increases the likelihood of weight gain and retention.
The human body is perfectly capable to extract usable energy from alchool, at the rate of 7kCal per gram of alchool ( almost as much as the 9kCal from 1g of fat, and more than the 4kCals from carbonhydrates ) and this is part of your energy balance.
Even counting loss in heat from transformation ( that may or may not be a waste depending on room temperature and clothes insulation ), you're getting 5 to 6 avaliable Calories from each gram of alchool, which is still more than from carbonhydrates.
You've consumed an excess of calories. Alchool calories aren't magical. They ended-up contributing to your excess total in a very predictable manner based on grams consumed, and that excess counting all your food and drink intake was stored as fat. You would get the same result of weigh gain if you consumed the same excess energy in the form of buttered toast.
If you haven't consumed an excess of calories but consumed alchool ( for example, if you drank 500 kCals' worth of alchool but didn't exceed your caloric needs for the day ), you won't gain weight.