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Originally posted by sekm
a friend of mine with a chemistry degree was telling me the other day that measuring the calories in something doesnt tell you much, as it is simply a measure of how much energy it releases when it is set on fire.
alcohol burns pretty well, and its a "poison", so does the body actually treat it as fuel just the same as sugar or fat ?
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*nod*, but our digestive system kicks ass. Billions of years of practice at consuming things. We even have a special name for roughage we can't eat: fibre.
I suspect the alchohol you piss out won't be turned into energy, the rest would.