What makes you a heavyweight

The idea is that the party girl who downs a few appletinis plus a few bar snacks tries to repent for those extra calories by banging out five or six miles the next morning. For other people, it may be a matter of blowing off stress. Some women offset their tension with a boot-camp class, others by getting hammered — and many are doing both. Drinking alcohol has a similar effect — hence the buzz it gives you soothes your worries temporarily, at least.

The downside of constantly activating these reward pathways is that your brain becomes used to it and wants more and then yet more again, says Dr Brian Christie, who studies the mental effects of exercise. Studies on animals bear out this effect. In a study, University of Houston scientists took a group of alcohol-loving rats and gave half of them running wheels while the other half were left to slob out. After three weeks they took away the exercise wheels and granted half the rodents in each group an open bar, anticipating that the fit rats would drink less than the lazy ones.

They drank more. Study author Dr J Leigh Leasure, a professor of psychology, was bemused — until she saw the results of the human studies. Similarly, people who exercise may also need to drink more to get the same feel-good effect, she adds. Interestingly research by the aptly named Dr Glass found that, in moderation, exercise and alcohol may be interchangeable as a means to the feel-good end, allowing you to replace a potentially harmful high alcohol with a natural, healthy one exercise.

Sweat sessions, on the other hand, dramatically increase neurotrophin production so you can make new brain cells, says Christie.

Hitting the treadmill can double or even triple neurons and lead to better cognitive functioning. Being fit can make you feel impervious to the ill-effects of drinking such as liver disease, diabetes and certain cancers, and even trick you into thinking you could never turn into an alcoholic. Men tend to be able to drink more than women before they appear drunk. Larger people may imbibe more than smaller people without immediate ill effects.

Some people are deficient in aldehyde dehydrogenase, which can lead to a buildup of acetaldehyde in the blood. The first problem with higher alcohol tolerance is that it can give a false impression of just how drunk someone really is. The amount of alcohol consumed still matters. The wiser choice is to take away the keys and call Uber. You should be especially mindful of drinking levels during the warmer season, Uren stressed, when people often increase their alcohol consumption.

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