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Beer Added To The Food Pyramid

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the appropriate-for-a-sunday-morning dept.

Alehound writes " Beer Is Food: The US Government labeled beer(alcohol) as a drug, BeerAdvocate.com begs to differ as they inform their reader that beer can be a part of your diet in a healthy way. Beer does a body good? So the "Beer Gut" is a myth? So why the hell do I have a gut? And yes these guys do drink beer for breakfast." It's only 10 in the morning, I'm dumping out the half pot of coffee left, and cracking open a Boddingtons! Do it!

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  1. Beer is likely a drug by the FDA's definition by Zetta+Matrix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The FDA determines the proper adult dose for a drug by giving increasingly higher doses to a bunch of rats until 50% of them die.

    I know this because I was told about a supplement that tried to get FDA approval as a drug, but it failed because it could never kill the rats. Therefore it could only be approved as a food (having strange effects on the product's marketability).

    So perhaps the FDA got some rats really drunk and they actually got half of them to die...