A study recently published by Science Daily states that moderate drinkers, those who average around a drink per day, are 54% less likely to be obese. They go on to state that that is counter-intuitive. Bah.

So much of what I see around me can be explained by common sense without the need for expensive studies. You don’t get a beer gut by having a drink a day, even if it is beer. Nevermind the fact that the study made no distinction between they types of alcohol, which can have wildly different amounts of calories, carbs and sugars.

That’s not the common sense part though. No. The common sense part is this: if you have the ability to limit how much of an addictive substance you take, then you most likely have the ability to limit less addictive substances like food.

Genetics plays a fair part in one’s body type as well. It isn’t nature vs. nurture people, it’s a combination of both. Always has been, always will be. So if 46% of moderate drinkers aren’t thin, I’m willing to bet at least some of them may be genetically predisposed towards a heavier build.

I know a little something on this subject, growing up I could smash two large pizzas together and wolf them both down in minutes, but by the time I graduated from high school I was 6′2″ and still only weighed 138lbs–tell me that wasn’t genetics.

I would hazard a guess that the 54% number would go up to around 70% when you take that into account. That’s 70% of people who are eating healthy despite the fact that they have a drink per day! Shocking, I know.

I wonder how much their completely worthless study cost? They didn’t consider any factors outside of alcohol and didn’t even consider the relevant facts about alcohol. My analysis cost nothing and is every bit as valuably as theirs.

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