Harvard Study Finds That Drinking Loses Weight? ...Chief Health Information SNS Spread Warning
Aug 29, 2025
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According to the Korea Health Promotion Development Institute, the post reads "According to a Harvard University study, moderate drinking helps you lose weight." has gained more than 3600 empathy by making the claim, and related content is being reproduced online.
This is an example of exaggerating the research results by borrowing Harvard's authority, and the study was not conducted at Harvard, but analyzed changes in blood cholesterol levels in about 57,000 Japanese adults according to changes in drinking habits. According to the study, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels, which are good cholesterol, tend to increase and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels, which are bad cholesterol, tend to decrease after starting drinking, but weight loss was not directly mentioned, and researchers emphasized that excessive drinking can still negatively affect health.
The institute pointed out that "Many studies have been reported that actual weight loss increases high-density lipoprotein (HDL), but on the contrary, the argument that increased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels cause weight loss is thin on scientific grounds."
Lee Hae-jung, a professor of food and nutrition at Gachon University, warned that "alcohol itself is high in calories, and is generally eaten with side dishes" and "alcohol is toxic in the body, so it is metabolized before other nutrients during detoxification, which makes it more likely that fat is not consumed well and that the calories of the food eaten together will be stored as fat, which in turn can lead to weight gain.""
Kim Heon-joo, head of the Korea Health Promotion Development Institute, stressed that there is no healthy drinking, and that exaggerated health information about losing weight from drinking can encourage excessive drinking, so special attention is needed.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
