AVERAGE BEER DRINKER CONSUMES 44,200 EXTRA CALORIES A YEAR, AND PUTS ON 12 EXTRA POUNDS

If you're trying to lose some weight . . . (and who isn't?), then the first thing you might want to cut out of your diet is, ALCOHOL. Why?

Because, according to Britain's Department of Health, the average wine drinker takes in 2,000 extra calories a month, or 24,000 extra calories a year, just from alcohol.

Over the course of a year, those extra calories add up to SEVEN extra pounds of FAT.

And drinking just FIVE BEERS a week adds an extra 44,200 calories a year from alcohol, which is the equivalent of eating 221 doughnuts.

Overall, that adds up to 12 extra pounds of fat a year, or one pound a month. And listen to this,

If you drink an average of two glasses of wine every day, which is about one bottle every two days, then by the end of the year you'll have packed on an additional 28 POUNDS in fat just from alcohol.