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Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the also-found-to-be-delicious dept.

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."

11 of 517 comments (clear)

  1. 1st post...! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post...! :)

    1. Re:1st post...! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      no dude!!!! way off the mark

  2. first poopst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i have first poopst

  3. First beer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  4. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ist post

  5. The big difference? by mveloso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  6. Re:yes, but define beer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    NOT FUNNY

    Don't quit your day job of being unemployed.

  7. Re:Should have called it: by johndoesovich · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you suck

    --
    alias dir='rm -rf /'
  8. Re:Many other health benefits by kavau · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    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!

  9. Re:Many other health benefits by shplorb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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! =]

  10. Re:Most beers have high carb content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Americans work harder (longer hours, etc) than essentially anyone else in the world.

    If this is true please could you tell all us non-merkins why the US has such an large trade deficit with the rest of the world - could it be that merkin work is not really work. Good exercise, work..