Beer is more dangerous than other alcohols for inducing obesity due to brewer's yeast activating umami pathways.

“what makes beer so much more dangerous than other alcohols for inducing obesity is because beer has all this yeast in it brewer's yeast which basically is activating umami pathways and it's one of the reasons we like beer this is that cellular density issue you spoke about exactly and so a beer raises uric acid more and there really is this beer belly syndrome and if you look at people who drink a lot of beer it isn't just they get abdominal obesity they get fatty liver they get high blood pressure their triglycerides go up they basically have metabolic syndrome”