Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’

Why Does Alcohol Make You Fat?

Posted on April 19th, 2011 by by WhyDoes

If you want to lose weight the first and the most common thing in many diet plans is that you have to cut down or simply quit alcohol. Terms such as ‘beer belly’ clearly specify that in common public weight gain is associated with alcohol, but is it really so? Following are a number of [...]

Why Does Alcohol Burn

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by by WhyDoes

Before you think of beer and whisky, you ought to know that there are generally two kinds of alcohol: the first group is called the hydroxide group (made up of one oxygen atom), and the second is called polyols (with more than one oxygen atom). There are many other subgroups. But basically an alcohol is [...]