Beer Could Be Good For What 'Ales' You

[White Boy]

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Ran across this story and thought of Brewski and Gman. I know you guys love your beer.

This ones for you. ::
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Study: Beer Could Be Good For What 'Ales' You

POSTED: 6:00 am PST November 15, 2005
UPDATED: 6:27 am PST November 15, 2005

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CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Now you may have an excuse for reaching for a beer -- as a health food.

Scientists at Oregon State University recently reported that the hops used to brew beer contain a compound that neutralizes free radicals -- the harmful molecules in the blood that can contribute to cancer and other diseases. The compound is exclusive only to h
ops an

d is not found anywhere else, the researchers said, adding that the compound is more effective at neutralizing free radicals than similar compounds found in red wine and green tea.

According to the researcher
s, craft beers such as stouts, porters and other "hoppy" beers have much higher levels of the exclusive free radical-fighting compound than domestic lager and pilsner beers. But don't reach for a six-pack hoping for a cure to all that "ales" you: The researchers said that more study is needed.

 

[Rasp]

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Good news! As a frequent imbiber of barley, hops and yeast, I would like to add that from a genetic standpoint many of the halest and hardiest bloodlines have survived to recent times because of our ancestors use of alcoholic beverages in place of contaminated, pathogen-filled water supplies. When Humans started to settle down in cities, the water supplies would quickly be contaminated from Human/animal wastes, which would be dangerous--then fatal--to drink. Beer and wine are free of pathogens, have a sterilizing effect on germs and can be easily stored. Also these gifts from God contain calories which helps one's family get by in times of famine. I would surmise that the bloodlines which are no longer in existence are due to the fact that they didn't drink alcoholic beverages. Even today, if you are in some shiitehole place like Mexico, Central/South America, most of the Mid-East or Afric


a, don't drink t
he water--you'll surely contract dysentery, giardia or someother contagious disease which could easily extinguish your flame.

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"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."--Benjamin Franklin

 

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Artefacts show drinkers
with 'inflated' beer bellies

"They even drank ale for breakfast, and got through up to a gallon, or four-and-a-half litres, a day each"

John Clark, curator of the Medieval London gallery

Binge-drinking an age-old problem

A culture of 24-hour drinking and bingeing on alcohol may not be unique to modern society, say historians.

Experts have uncovered evidence that 12th century Londoners drank ale by the gallon, starting at breakfast time, due t


o poor quality drinking water.

Exhibits at the Museum of London, including a selection of old Toby jugs, depict tubby men with beer bellies.

London's many drinking dens entertained 'immoderate quaffing by fools', according to a writer of the time.

Looking back only 700 years, London had over 1,300 alehouses - on
e for every 50 people living in the city.

John Clark, curator of the Medieval London gallery, said: "Most people, including children, drank ale made from malted barley without hops.

"They even drank ale for breakfast, and got through up to a gallon, or four-and-a-half litres, a day each.

"At a price of a penny per gallon, only the poorest had to make do with water."

However, he pointed out that this ale was much weaker than the beers people drink today.

Tom Knox, head brewer at Nethergate Brewery which produces real ale - the modern version of medieval beers - said: "Ale was the preferred drink
at a
tim
e when water and milk were often contaminated and tea and coffee were unknown in England.

"The boiling of the beer in the process and the production of alcohol during fermentation destroyed most of the bacteria," he explained.

During the 1400s beer, brewed with hops, became increasingly popular in London, replacing traditional ale.

According to the views of one commentat
or in 1542, beer drinking was "to the detryment" of many Englishmen since it "doth make a man fatte, and doth inflate the belly".

Imported wine was also popular at the time with those who could afford it, according to experts.

But Mr Clark said drinkers in medieval London would not have gone on pub crawls for their ale because there were strict curfews to stop people wandering the streets of the city at night.

"Instead, the regulars would stay in one pub drinking in the back room - a bit like a lock-in."

Drinking vessels from the tim
e, inclu
ding eve
ryday pottery mugs and rare enamelled wine goblets, will form part of the display in the new gallery, which opens on November 25 at the museum in the Barbican.

Over the weekend there will also be entertainers, such as jesters, and people demonstrating some of the common medieval crafts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4455912.stm

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[Dr William Pierce]

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Anyone else remember ""? Cliff Clavin had his own theory about beer and how it makes you smarter:

Beer kills brain cells. But, like the natural selection that occurs in the jungle, it is the weak and unfit - in this case, the dumb brain cells - which end up killed. Consequentially, these cells get replaced with new cells and the brain ends up smarter than before you drank the beer!

I enjoy beer too!

 

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Alcohol has saved more lives than it's cost, says expert

Wednesday, 30th November 2005, 13:26
Category: Healthy Living

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LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Alcohol has saved more lives that it has lost, according to a leading health expert.

But the benefits of booze depend entirely on how you drink, a conference held by the Alcohol Education and Research Council in London was told today.

And Professor Eric Single, a public health expert from the University of Toronto, said he believed longer licensing hours may well reduce binge drinking in Britain.

He told the conference: "Basically alcohol reduces heart disease and strokes because it thins the blood. This was first discovered not by alcohol experts but by heart specialists who started having to take alcohol consumption into account in the


ir studies.

"In Australia, New Zealand
and Canada we have found there were more lives saved from moderate drinking than were lost through excess drinking."

But the professor cautioned that whilst drinking moderately could extended the lives of older people those who died as a result of drinking too much were often the young.

"Those who died as a result of alcohol are often young and they die before they have lived two thirds of their life.

"In recent years we have learned that acute consequences of drinking - car crashes and violence rather than longer term effects - make up a far larger proportion of alcohol related deaths than we have previously thought.

"We have also learned drinking patterns play a major role in determining the level of alcohol problems. It is better to drink two drinks each night for a week that 14 pints on one night."

The one country where studies show more people die from alcohol consumption than have their
liv
es e
xtended by it is Finland where the professor said binge drinking was endemic.

New B
ritish licensing laws could have a positive effect on Britons' health.

Prof Single said: "I would suspect it could have a positive effect. What you don't want is power drinking where people drink lots before closing time. We will only see in time."

Rather than focus on reducing drinking the government should change the tax structure to hit high alcohol content drinks.

"Spirits and beer should be taxed the same, but it is ridiculous for a low alcoholic beer to be taxed the same as a regular beer. A high alcohol beer should be taxed even more."

Prof Single later said: "Two or three of the most significant discoveries in the last 20 years suggest we should focus on harmonisation measures - changing the way people drink - rather than having a zero tolerance attitude to alcohol which hits everybody in society.

"We have discovered that dr
inking p
lays a m
ajor role in determining levels of alcohol problems, secondly acute consequences of alcohol consumption contributes much more to mortali
ty and morbidity than previously thought and thirdly there are significant health benefits from moderate drinking and we have to to take this into account."

And he attacked anti-alcohol campaigners who refused to accept that there can be any benefits to drinking.

Prof Single said: "There is a new kind of McCarthyism in the field of drinks research. It is not communists under every bed but the hand of the drinks industry. It is a very disturbing trend."

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=D...s_than_its_cost

 

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Health Benefits of Moderate Drinking Questioned
03.30.06, 12:00 AM ET

THURSDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Many previous studies suggesting that moderate drinking helps prevent heart disease may be flawed, says a report by a group of researchers from Australia, Canada and the United States.

They analyzed 54 studies that looked at the association between drinking and risk of premature death from all causes, including heart disease. The new report concluded that many of those studies did not account for the effects of age and illness that make abstainers have higher death rates than moderate drinkers.

The researchers investigated suspicions that many of the abstainers included in these studies were actually people who'd reduced or quit drinking due to declini
ng health, frailty, medication use or disability. They found that o
nly seven of the 54 studies included only long-term non-drinkers in the abstainers' group. Those seven studies found no difference in death risk between abstainers and moderate drinkers.

The findings appear online in advance of the May issue of the journal Addiction Research and Theory.

"The widely held belief that light or moderate drinking protects against coronary heart disease has had great influence on alcohol policy and clinical advice of doctors to their patients throughout the world. These findings suggest that caution should be exerted in recommending light drinking to abstainers because of the possibility that this result may be more apparent than real," researcher Tim Stockwell, of the Centre for Addictions Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, said in a prepared statement.

"We know that older people who are light drinkers are usually healthier than th
eir non-drinking peers. Our research suggests light drinking is a sign of good health, not necessarily its
cause. Many people reduce their drinking as they get older for a variety of health reasons," Kaye Fillmore, of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, added in a prepared statement.

The researchers cautioned that their report doesn't disprove the idea that light drinking is good for health, because too few error-free studies have been performed.