Beer Brings Health

Health and alcohol? Two quite ironical words together. But the fact is that like Red wine, drinking Beer too can provide some incredible health benefits.

According to New England Journal of Medicine (1999), those people who drank beer in moderate quantities have 30-40 % decreased risk for coronary heart disease relevantly to those who do not drink. Also, when compared to red wine, Beer carries similar amount of polphenols. They work as potent antioxidants.

Coming back to the ingredients of a standard beer, it is fat free and cholesterol free also. About 13 gram of carbohydrates is present on average along with 25-30 mg of sodium. Other nutrients present include Vitamin B2, B6, Potassium, Phosphorus, calcium and protein. The Vitamin B6 is essential for decreasing the levels of homocysteine which initiates the heart diseases.

When stressed, it is a good option to relax with a beer bottle once in a while. It even helps in having a better sleep. Be it any type of beer you choose, like bitter or wheat beer, lagers, stout, or ales Beer is good in moderation. Women can take up to 2 daily and men can gulp down two.

This has shown to provide prevention against strokes. Did anyone tell you that Beer even helps in reduction of Kidney stones? According to A Finnish-US study, about 40 % of reduced rate of kidney stones occurs in beer drinkers to non-drinkers. Another interesting study observes that when Beer was fed to mice in small amounts it showed new nerve cell growth.

We all know that due to insufficient presence of antioxidants to fight the free radicals, in such a condition Beer has shown reduced chromosomal damage from X-ray exposure. This is due to preservance of beta-pseudouridine in Beer. It also decreases the neopterin production and provides a calming effect. It helps a person to stay awake by having boosted serotonin content in body.

What more does one wantt out of a yummy to tummy chilled glass of Beer?