alt Hacker NewsIndeed the average base spirit has 2-3 calorie per millilitre. This is 5-6x the amount found in coca cola or pepsi. But then again, the quantities are also much less than when drinking soft drinks (hopefully).
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dzhiurgis • 10/12/2024
IDK I can down a sixpack or two pretty easily. I can’t imagine drinking so much soda or even water.
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Glucose and ethanol are metabolized through different pathways that will have different efficiencies. How much impact does that have on comparing the two?
Glucose can go right into the bloodstream (?), but ethanol needs to be reacted (taking energy) to turn into blood glucose.
This is a confusion I have about calories-in-calories-out in general, fat/carbs/protein are all metabolized with different (and variable) efficiencies. Even pro-CICO folks agree not to count ingested calories that can't be metabolized, but that's just one spot on a gradient to draw a line.