Wine and Health

Question 1

How many calories in ethanol?

Answer 1

7 calories per gram

Question 2

How is energy provided by ethanol used in the body?

Answer 2

Ethanol is rapidly used and used before calories from other macros, so calories from other macros, when consumed with ethanol, end up being stored in adipose tossie (this is why you gain weight when you drink a lot).

Question 3

What is a standard drink?

Answer 3

• Based on amoun of alcohol consumed, not volume
• In U.S. a standard drink is the volume of drink that contains 0.6 oz of alcohol or about 14 grams

Question 4

What are the standard drink volumes for different types of alcohol?

Answer 4

• Beer - 12 oz
• Malt Liquor - 8-9 oz.
• Table Wine - 5 oz.
• Fortified Wine - 3-4 oz.
• Liquers - 2-3 oz.
• Dstilled spirits - 1.5 oz.

Question 5

What information is required on health warning label?

Answer 5

• surgeon general warning
• alcohol content ( can say “table wine”)
• contains sulfites
• Volume of container
• bottler name and location

Question 6

What is absorption?

Answer 6

incorporation of alchol into the body as it passes through the gastric passage

Question 7

What is metabolism?

Answer 7

Biochemical process of breaking down and/or creating compounds using enzymes

Question 8

How/where is alcohol absorbed?

Answer 8

• About 20% in the stomach and goes immediately into the bloodstream
• About 80% in the small intestine

Question 9

Where is alcohol metabolized?

Answer 9

in the liver

Question 10

What enzyme metabolises alcohol?

Answer 10

dehydrogenase enzymes

Question 11

What is BAC (Blood Alcohol Content)?

Answer 11

amount of alcohol in the body absorbed from the small intestine and stomach

Question 12

What is formula for claculating BAC?

Answer 12

BAC% = 0.08 X (number of drinks) X (ounces per drink) X (alocohol %) / bodyweight in pounds

or

BAC% = 4 X (number of stnadard drinks) / bodyweight in pounds

Question 13

What other factors affect alcohol absorption?

Answer 13

• Food consumption
• Gender
• age
• body composition

Question 14

What is the rate of alcohol metabolism in the body?

Answer 14

About 0.1 grams of ethanol per kilgram of bodyweight per hour

or

ounces = bodyweight in pounds / 5 X alcohol %

Question 15

How do you estimate length of time for a person to metabolize 1 standard drink

Answer 15

Time = 250 / bodyweight in pounds

Question 16

Define binge drinking

Answer 16

consuming five or more drinks on the same occasion within a short period of time, on at least one day in the ast 30 days

Question 17

What is “moderate” consumption?

Answer 17

drinking one or two standard drinks per day