This just in: Add beer to your list of healthy dietary supplement.

[SunnyD]

Perfect reason to get the old lady sloshed... it'll fight off her osteoporosis.

If you downed one too many while watching the Super Bowl, here's at least one reason to hold your head high: Drinking beer can be good for your health.

But seriously, a new analysis of 100 commercial beers shows the hoppy beverage is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for bone health.

Though past research has suggested beer is chockfull of silicon, little was known about how silicon levels varied with the type of beer and malting process used. So a pair of researchers took one for the team and ran chemical analyses on beer's raw ingredients. They also picked up 100 commercial beers from the grocery store and measured the silicon content.

The silicon content of the beers ranged from 6.4 mg/L to 56.5 mg/L, with an average of 30 mg/L. Two beers are the equivalent of just under a half liter, so a person could get 30 mg of the nutrient from two beers. And while there is no official recommendation for daily silicon uptake, the researchers say, in the United States, individuals consume between 20 and 50 mg of silicon each day.

However, other studies show that consuming more than one or two alcoholic beverages a day may be, overall, bad for health.

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[Inspector Jihad]

i prolly have silicon toxicity!

 

[FelixDeCat]

Too bad the alcohol and resulting poor eating decisions will make you obese.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Moderate beer consumption (1-2 per day) also can raise HDL cholesterol levels.

 

[vi edit]

So that explains why I haven't broken any bones since going to college.

 

[vi edit]

Moderate beer consumption (1-2 per day) also can raise HDL cholesterol levels.

Not to mention lowers blood pressure and you live longer since you aren't an uptight, holier than than thou blowhard like many of the abstinent drinkers are.

 

[destrekor]

Too bad the alcohol and resulting poor eating decisions will make you obese.

lolwut?

Being a lazy slob makes you obese. Not food choices.
As long as you get necessary nutrients through food, you can eat whatever you want. Excess "bad" content can then be managed through regulating your body.
Carbs, fats, calorie content are not the enemy. The individual is their own enemy. Not hard to prevent ever getting fat. The problem for people is they don't care and get fat, and getting back to a healthy weight and healthy body takes a ton of work, which compounds the problem for the lazy.

Best goal in life: if you want to eat a lot of fatty food, feel free. Just match the output to the input. Nothing in excess gets stored in your body if it gets used.

 

[destrekor]

oh, forgot to add:

I thoroughly enjoy alcohol. Many bar nights I'll come home with some food from taco hell. Some mornings, I enjoy getting some McGriddles. Hell, I love fast food in general. Been this way for most my life, and at 5'11", the most I've ever weighed is 180lbs. It was a disproportional weight, my body is inclined to keep fat on my stomach - right now I'm about 170. Don't think I'll ever have a sixpack (a certain malformed ribcage and placement of diaphragm seems to add in this, that and genetics), but I sure as hell am nowhere near overweight. Healthy blood pressure (don't know my LDL/HDL/trigs).

 

[FelixDeCat]

Look here, you cant fool FelixDekat. Beer gives you a beer belly. Case closed.

 

[vi edit]

Yeh. When I was in high school & college I ran cross country. I was 6' and 150 pounds and running an average of 7 miles a day. Never had a 6 pack. Always had a small layer of belly fat that never went away...even if the rest of me was nothing but bone, muscle, skin and gristle.

Damn genetics.

 

[destrekor]

Yeh. When I was in high school & college I ran cross country. I was 6' and 150 pounds and running an average of 7 miles a day. Never had a 6 pack. Always had a small layer of belly fat that never went away...even if the rest of me was nothing but bone, muscle, skin and gristle.

Damn genetics.

Ay, afflicted with the same problem I see. Mine is made worse due to my stomach, even when flexed and tight, actually sitting out further than all of my chest. This damn dented chest just screws everything up.

 

[Gibsons]

Look here, you cant fool FelixDekat. Beer gives you a beer belly. Case closed.

I've been drinking beer pretty regularly for over twenty years now, no beer belly, maybe 5 lbs overweight, if that. You fooled yourself.

 

[Cattlegod]

Now I know why I never break bones!

 

[CRXican]

If you can stick to two per day it's all good

 

[Albatross]

http://i.imgur.com/950B1.jpg

one healthy bastard

 

[HybridSquirrel]

thats good enough for me, brb getting a beer

 

[syrillus]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100208/sc_livescience/beermaybegoodforyourbonesAdd beer to your list of healthy dietary supplement.

Done and done.

 

[RollWave]

Interesting.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I remember reading that Irish doctors used to recommend a daily Stout to pregnant women as a good source of protein and B-vitamins.
I don't know for certain that beer has the same benefits, but why take the risk?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually I would not be surprised if beer is healthier then pop.

I need to take up drinking I think.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Actually I would not be surprised if beer is healthier then pop.

I need to take up drinking I think.

dont you mean soda

 

[moshquerade]

a beer a day keeps the doctor away