Is beer or wine making you fat?

Adding it all up
One beer every night adds 1,036 additional calories per week, or 15 pounds to your stomach per year. No wonder they call it a beer belly. Three glasses of dry wine a week will cost you 318 calories, or an additional three miles on the treadmill just to walk off the extra calories. If you’re watching your weight, try this advice:

• Don’t drink alcohol regularly
• Remember that the calories from alcohol add up quickly, and they go straight to the fat in your abdomen
• Most people eat high-calorie snacks when they drink alcohol, a double whammy in terms of weight gain

Suddenly, water with a twist of lemon never looked so good.