Atkins people: Explain to me this

[minendo]

Originally posted by: conjur
http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa061603.htm

Alcohol is a carb.

 

[minendo]

 

[conjur]

http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa061903.htm

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Damn, I'm gonna do atkins when a drink lots of rum

Thing with me though is when I drink I get a RAVENOUS desire to eat EVERYTHING in sight, and generally this desire leans towards the carb side of things. One link above said that increase of booze = decrease of sugar in many people. That surely isn't the case for me. It's actually ungodly how much food I'll want to eat once I get a few beer in me :Q

Slow down there cowboy. The body burns alcohol for fuel when alcohol is available. So when it is burning alcohol, it is not burning fat. Since it interferes with weight loss, you want to go easy on the alcohol.

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: conjur
http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa061603.htm

Alcohol is a carb.

Did you even read that article??

There are actually NO carbohydrates in wine - it is primarily water and alcohol.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Babbles
The Atkins diet people try to cut back sugar (just like nearly every diet out there) because you want your body to go thru ketosis, or basically some other method for an energy source.
To burn fat.
If you consume carbs in the form of sugars then you excercise your body burns those recently consumed sugars, not the stored fat.

No, I am not on the Atkins diet yet I took the time to do some reading. You may want to do the same.

By the way, no ethanol is not a carbohydrate. Sugars and polymers of sugars are carbohydrates.

Alcohol is a carbohyrdate. Arguining on this subject only makes you look like a moron since it could be argued that sugar is an alcohol.

Allright you twit. Carbohydrates are defined as polyhydroxylated ketones and/or aldehydes. Ethanol has one -OH, that sure as heck is not polyhydroxylated nor is the ethyl function group a ketone or an aldehyde.

This is the chemical definition not what you want to think of it as.

Carbohydrates are organic molecules that contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen usually in the ratio 1:2:1.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: conjur
http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa061603.htm

Alcohol is a carb.

Did you even read that article??

There are actually NO carbohydrates in wine - it is primarily water and alcohol.

Yes, I read the article. However, alcohol is a carb.

 

[kami]

Yes, I read the article. However, alcohol is a carb.

Miniscule though, to the point of not counting. I'm talking about hard liquors here like vodka and rum. You can drink all the alcohol and diet pop on atkins that you want. There's also some new low carb beers out...I have tried two of them and one of them is decent, I have gotten used to it and enjoy it now (Sleeman's Clear)...it's 2.5 carbs a bottle and 90 calories.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: conjur
http://wine.about.com/library/weekly/aa061603.htm

Alcohol is a carb.

Did you even read that article??

There are actually NO carbohydrates in wine - it is primarily water and alcohol.

Yes, I read the article. However, alcohol is a carb.

I can find nothing supporting your statement that alcohol is a carb, perhaps you can give us something other than your own word. You state it like it's a commonly known fact, yet I can find NOTHING that would back it up.

Viper GTS

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: minendo
Carbohydrates are organic molecules that contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen usually in the ratio 1:2:1.

Haha, okay so let me guess you just started taking freshman Chem 101 and now you think you know everything.

Allright, if you define carbohydrates as any molecules (saying organic is redundant) with carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; then, what about the definition of aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, esters, ethers, some aromatics all of which have carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Carbohydrates are a specific type of organic molecules, they will have at least two alochol groups and a carbonyl group at the 'apex' with it either being an aldehyde (probably more common) or a ketone.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: minendo
Carbohydrates are organic molecules that contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen usually in the ratio 1:2:1.

Haha, okay so let me guess you just started taking freshman Chem 101 and now you think you know everything.

Allright, if you define carbohydrates as any molecules (saying organic is redundant) with carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; then, what about the definition of aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, esters, ethers, some aromatics all of which have carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Carbohydrates are a specific type of organic molecules, they will have at least two alochol groups and a carbonyl group at the 'apex' with it either being an aldehyde (probably more common) or a ketone.

My biochem girlfriend basically says this is true, and that your body handles different functional groups differently, just because it is carbon/oxygen/hydrogen somewhere in the molecule definitely, definitely does not make it a carbohydrate.

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: Babbles

Originally posted by: minendo
Carbohydrates are organic molecules that contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen usually in the ratio 1:2:1.

Haha, okay so let me guess you just started taking freshman Chem 101 and now you think you know everything.

Oh man your ass is going to be so owned. Go ahead, ask him what his major is. lol.

-silver