Why you cannot drink milk, beer, cola

Why you cannot drink milk, beer, cola, or fruit juice, and then just exercise to get in shape.

A 12 ounce can of beer, or cola, contains 150 calories.  A six pack contains 900 calories.

The daily caloric requirement for an average person is only 2500 calories.  Therefore, a six pack of beer, or cola, contains more than a third of the caloric requirements for the entire day.  The caloric content of milk or fruit juice is comparable to beer or cola.

Your body does not measure the caloric content of the food you are eating to establish a feeling of fullness.  You feel full, or satiated, when you have food with fiber content in your stomach.

If you drink beer, or cola, your body is frequently unaware that it is consuming anything except water.  All those “extra calories” sneak by your body’s monitors undetected.

When drinking beer, or cola, it is not unusual to drink as much as a six pack [or more] in a single day or evening.  This equals 900 additional calories that are “unaccounted for” and consumed in addition to your daily nutritional requirements.

At the gym, I found it possible to “burn off” about 150 calories in one half hour of aerobic exercise on the stationary bike or stair master.  To “burn off” 900 calories, it would take six times as long or about three hours of aerobic exercise.

Nobody can do high intensity aerobic exercise for three hours every day, without eventually damaging their joints or legs.  

Therefore, [unless you are very young] you cannot drink milk, beer, cola, or fruit juice and stay in shape.   The drink is too concentrated with calories that your body is not designed to accommodate.  You cannot exercise to make up the difference and you eventually will gain weight, or suffer health problems.

Therefore, for optimal health, only drink water.

Copyright © 2016

William Schaeffer