10 The Health Benefits of Beer Drinking

In May 1999, Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported that the results of studies demonstrated that those who consume moderate amounts of beer (one to two per day) have a 30-40% lower rate of coronary heart disease compared to those who don't drink.

Beer contains a similar amount of antioxidants as red wine and five times as many antioxidants as white wine.

Alcohol in general has also been shown to have the ability to increase the amount of good cholesterol (HDL) into the bloodstream and helping to decrease blood clots.

Beer in particular contains vitamin B6, which prevents the build-up of the amino acid homocysteine that has been linked to heart disease.

A recent study performed at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute in Utrecht indicates that those who drink beer had no increase in their homocysteine level over a measured period of time; in contrast, those who drank wine or liquor still had some increase.

Also noted was the fact that those who drank beer experienced a 30% increase in vitamin B6 in their blood plasma.

The health value of beer has actually been known, documented, and applied for centuries, although the facts about beer are often covered up or obscured by those who abstain.

Beer is made from grains, water, and yeast. Wheat and barley are the most commonly used of these grains (cheaper beers use corn and rice), both of which are loaded with a variety of vitamins that survive the fermentation and filtering process.

And the vitamin value of the yeast (the source of the high concentrations of B6) is conserved in the hundreds of unfiltered beers that are on the market -- both on tap and in bottles.

Dr. Katherine Tucker in 2004 "participated in a study that showed beer, either dark or light, protects bone mineral density," reported The Harford Courant.

According to Tucker—who is associate professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition, Science, and Policy—alcoholic beverage contains high levels of an ingredient which allows the deposit of calcium and other minerals into bone tissue.

"The reason, we think, is that beer is a major contributor to the diet of silicon," the Tufts expert, who is director of the nutritional epidemiology program at the Friedman School, told the Courant.

"Most health research suggests that benefits, including protection against heart disease, are noted with up to one drink per day for women and up to two a day for men," Tucker went on to say.

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