Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine

Matt Clare writes "Researchers at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) recently found that beer has the same positive qualities that wine has previously been found to have. The media release quotes professor John Trevithick, 'We were very surprised one drink of beer or stout contributed an equal amount of antioxidant benefit as wine, especially since red wine contains about 20 times the amount of polyphenols as beer.' For more info on how beer helps police harmful free radicals in blood, The London Free Press also has an article."

Comments

The big difference?

[mveloso]

Yes, beer is very much better than running windows under linux? /obligatory

Re:Should have called it:

[johndoesovich]

you suck

Re:Many other health benefits

[kavau]

That's why I prefer Bavarian beer... Hefeweizen, or Weissbier, as we call it. Since I was born in Bavaria, I'm probably a little biased when it comes to beer, but after drinking larger quantities of American beer I regularly wake up with a bad headache the next morning. After comparable quantities of Bavarian beer I feel fine, even though it's slightly stronger (the beer, not the headache). The difference might well be due to the yeast, as you suggest.

Prost!

Re:Many other health benefits

[shplorb]

I've heard also that lack of B12 is one of the main causes of hangovers - to this day, I've never had a (bad) hangover drinking my own beer.

Hangovers are actually caused by dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic like caffiene - it makes you piss. If you don't have a glass of water every now and then whilst drinking you dehyrdate, but don't notice it because you're drunk. =]

Whenever I have a session I try to drink as much water or cordial as I can before going to sleep and I never have a hangover.

Puking your guts up before drinking water will also help, since you won't be absorbing alcohol into your bloodstream whilst you sleep, so drink up! =]