Health Benefits of Beer
Drinking Beer For Good Health

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

Many years ago, beer was considered a nourishing household product like bread, since it's based on grain. One type of beer called, doppelbock, was known as "liquid bread" by certain monks who relied on it for sustenance during the Lenten fasts. Even back in earlier times, beer was always the mealtime beverage for young and old alike and a good source of valuable nutrients.

Today if the standard ordinary 12 ounce bottle of beer had a "Nutrition Facts Label", this is what it would say:

• Beer contains 150 calories
• Beer has no fat
• Beer has no cholesterol
• Beer is caffeine free
• Beer contains no nitrates
• Beer contains 1 gram of protein and 13 grams of carbohydrates
• Beer is 92 percent pure water

Beer contains very significant amounts of magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, and biotin and Beer is packed full of the B vitamins (as anyone who has taken brewer's yeast as a B supplement already knows), with impressive amounts of B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxin), and B9 (folate), with smaller amounts of B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B12 inotisol and choline.

Today when you read the newspapers, you probably see a lot of stories about the health problems that the country is facing. You see headlines of people suffering from heart attacks, cancer, and other illnesses, but what you may not have heard of is an easy (and delicious) solution to some of these news making problems - and that is beer.

Recent findings from studies have shown that beer is actually good for your heart, just like wine! What exactly can beer do to help your heart? Well, according to a study done by Tufts University, the consumption of beer in moderate amounts can decrease your cholesterol level, reduce the amount of fibrinogen in your blood (which is a protein that is responsible for blood clotting), and increase the level of antioxidants in your body.

In the 1930s, copy writer Dorothy Sayers (best known for the Lord Peter Wimsey crime novels) coined the advertising line "Guinness is Good for You!" and the famous Irish stout was dispensed to invalids and nursing mothers.

Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of beer's essential wholesomeness. Now, research has documented beer's medical benefits, but beer's contributions to good nutrition are just as impressive, and just as important to your overall health.

The discovery--or re-discovery-- that alcohol consumption might be good for you emerged in the early 1990s in a phenomenon known as the "French paradox:" the observation that, although the French diet is higher in fat than ours, rates of coronary disease are lower than in the United States.

Research suggested that the red wine the French drank with their meals appeared to have positive effects on cholesterol levels (both raising the levels of "good" and decreasing the levels of "bad" cholesterol) and reducing blood platelet aggregation.

Dutch researchers in 2000 offered evidence to counter the widely held belief that red wine was better for the heart than beer. The Dutch study, led by Dr. Henk Hendriks of the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute found the men in their study showed a 30 percent increase in vitamin B6 in their blood plasma after three weeks drinking beer.

So how how much beer do you need to keep you healthy? The advice is one to two beers a day, so don't think drinking three or four beers a day will triple or quadruple these effects of the beer, it will not!

So it's true, studies have found that beer can actually be good for your heart, just like wine. If you are worried about your heart health, you should obviously exercise and eat right, but drinking two beers a day for men (and one for women), may give some people an extra boost.

If heart disease runs in your family, you may want to listen to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which found in their research that drinking a moderate amount of beer daily can decrease your risk of coronary disease by about 30-40%!

These same University of Texas studies also suggest that men 40 or older and women 50 or older consider adding moderate amounts of alcohol to their diets if they have heart disease or one or more risk factors for heart disease. Exceptions are made for pregnant women and recovering alcoholics and other preventive measures, such as you stopping smoking.

Of course, if you want more information about the effects of beer on your health, you should definitely consult your physician. Beer drinking can be dangerous for people who have certain health conditions or who take some medications.

There you see, beer is not just for college kids anymore!

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