Inspired in part by the 16th-century Paulaner monks of Bavaria, who legendarily fasted during Lent by drinking nothing but doppelbock they brewed themselves, the diet enjoys a current small vogue that traces itself to a devoutly Christian Iowa man named Jay Wilson. In , Wilson decided to follow in the monks' footsteps, spending the 46 days before Easter drinking nothing but doppelbocks brewed specially for him at his local Rock Bottom Brewery.
Wilson claimed his purpose was entirely religious, though he also reported a loss of 25 pounds. Other beer bloggers followed suit with fewer religious scruples. These included Troy Rogers of Duluth, Minn. It all seems too good to be true: weight loss and irresponsible indulgence together. Like CrossFit and juice cleanses, it is an affront to all moderation, less good health or discipline than a taunting dare to the human body.
And like all good dares, it was impossible for me to resist. The first day, nonetheless, was terrifying. Food for me is a primary pleasure; a good meal is something I look forward to days in advance.
Its absence threw my body's internal reward system into something approaching panic. The primary quality of a beer diet, it turns out, is not drunkenness but hunger. It is less indulgence than an elementary math problem: How can you ingest enough substantive calories to live on, without also drinking yourself into sickness or debility?
The ancient monks most likely drank beer made with inefficient yeast, resulting in a low-alcohol brew thickened with unfermented, malty wort. Nothing like those beers exists today, when doppelbocks top 9 percent alcohol. And so I was left seeking a holy grail of high gravity, high calories and low alcohol. During the first day of my beer diet, a Sunday, I failed badly at this. I drank saison and sour beer from my home fridge before finally going out for a pint of higher-calorie milk stout.
In all, I ingested maybe calories, and was famished. I slept terribly, and on Monday morning, I was human garbage. If colleagues questioned even the smallest thing I did, my response was to question the relative merits of their entire human existence. The best solution, it turned out, was dessert stouts: chocolate stouts and peanut butter stouts and stouts made with unfermented milk sugar. His answer? You'd live long enough to develop scurvy, but probably not much longer:. Not more than a few months, probably.
That's when the worst effects of scurvy [resulting from vitamin c deficiency] and protein deficiency would kick in If you kept to a strict beer diet—and swore off plain water altogether—you'd likely die of dehydration in a matter of days or weeks, depending on the strength and volume of beer consumed.
There's plenty of water in beer, of course, but the alcohol's diuretic effect makes it a net negative in terms of hydration under most conditions. One experiment, in particular, lends credence to the first half of Singer-Vine's hypothesis: in the s, researchers fed two Rhesus macaque monkeys with milliliters of India pale ale per day, and some other foods lacking in vitamin C — within 2 months the monkeys were exhibiting symptoms of scurvy.
But what about the second half? The part about dying of dehydration? This brings us to our second question of whether or not beer is a suitable replacement for water.
Singer-Vine suggests the answer is no — but some recent experiments suggest otherwise. The first is one you may have heard of — but it's actually been widely misreported. Back in , news outlets ran wild with reports that Spanish researchers had announced that beer does a better job of helping the body rehydrate after a workout than plain old water. Wrote The Telegraph, at the time :. Half were given a pint of beer, while the others received the same volume of water. Prof Garzon, who announced the results at a press conference in Granada beneath a banner declaring "Beer, Sport, Health", said the hydration effect in those who drank beer was "slightly better".
Unfortunately, these news reports were total bunk. A little sleuthing on the part of Adventure Sports Journal 's Dick Peterman cleared the air emphasis added :. Professor Garzon actually denies beer has any better hydration effect than water. And by the way, he goes by the name of Professor Manuel Castillo, not Garzon. What is the healthiest alcohol to drink on a diet? If you're looking to be healthier while drinking alcohol occasionally, these are the healthiest alcohols you can choose from.
Red Wine. Heron Zelinka Explainer. Does alcohol slow your metabolism? Alcohol also appears to increase metabolic rate significantly, thus causing more calories to be burned rather than stored in the body as fat Klesges et al. Other research has found consumption of sugar to decrease as consumption of alcohol increases. Sherry Kohut Pundit. Does alcohol lose muscle? Research shows that an acute bout of moderate alcohol intake does not accelerate exercise induced muscle damage and also doesn't affect muscle strength.
Xiue Fuguet Pundit. How much weight can I lose cutting out alcohol? The calculator will show you the calories you consume per week from alcohol beverages. To lose 1 pound a week, you need to consume fewer calories a day than your body burns. Hajiba Dahlweg Pundit. Can you die from drinking beer everyday? More than two drinks daily can increase the risk of over-all death as well as dying from heart disease.
Here is what researchers have found: Drinking alcoholic beverages, including beer , by healthy people seems to reduce the risk of developing heart disease.
Nisri Rohr Pundit. Is it OK to drink beer once a week? Your liver processes alcohol. And remember, binge drinking can be harmful even though the weekly total may not seem too high.
For example, if you only drink once or twice a week but when you do you drink pints of beer each time, or a bottle of wine each time, this is a risk to your health. Ghizlan Junquero Pundit. Why do alcoholics vomit so much? Alcoholic ketoacidosis can develop when you drink excessive amounts of alcohol for a long period of time.
They may also vomit as a result of drinking too much. Not eating enough or vomiting can lead to periods of starvation. This further reduces the body's insulin production. Leola Calisto Teacher. How many beers a day is healthy? For example, The Daily Telegraph said, "drinking up to two 1.
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