By Louie Jerome on August 20th, 2007
10 Health Benefits of Drinking Beer
Drink up your beer, it’s healthy! Beer drinking can be good for you as long as you don’t drink too much.
In moderation, beer has many health benefits:
- Up to two beers a day for men (women should only have one), will help to reduce your risk of having strokes, and heart disease. Light drinking appears to reduce the risk by as much as 20% according to research in United States.
- Beer can help to increase the level of HDL (beneficial cholesterol) in the body and decrease the likelihood of blood clots.
- A couple of beers can raise the level of anti-oxidants in the blood stream. This enables the cells to carry more oxygen around the body. More oxygen helps better muscle activity among other things.
- Beer contains vitamin B6 which is needed to make haemoglobin, the red coloring in blood. This carries oxygen around the body. It also helps maintain correct blood sugar levels.
- It is fat free, aids restful sleep and promotes relaxation.
- Beer contains vitamins B and B2 (as well as B6) and essential minerals like calcium, potassium, and phosphorus.
- Dark beer is better for you than light. It contains more flavanoids which are natural oxidants that help to protect the body from disease.
- For post menopausal women, beer may be a beneficial addition to the diet. Some hop flavanoids have properties like oestrogen and research suggests that this property may make it possible to produce a natural form of HRT to replace the current one.
- Beer can help to reduce blood pressure and levels of insulin in the blood.
- Beer drinking can also reduce the incidence of kidney stones. This may be due to the water, the hops, or the alcohol, but, whatever the reason, it seems to help.
Too much beer can make you fat, and cause a number of other health problems. Like all good things, beer should be consumed responsibly.
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Darlene McFarlane | Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
A very good and informative article! You certainly did your homework with this one. I didn’t know that beer helped raise the good cholesterol nor did I know it lowered insulin and blood pressure.
This is very helpful. I am sending this link out in my email, I want everyone to know.
Thanks for the great information.
marcus | Jul 11, 2008 | Reply
i’ve had a blood clot and I was taking blood thinnin medication.
I wasn’t supposed to be drinking at the time I was taking the medicine. But to find out beer lessens your chance of getting another blood clot, i was actually doing myself good instead of bad.
Anupam Mishra | Aug 24, 2008 | Reply
I just read that two beers per day are good for health. I am just wondering what is the meaning of two beers does it mean two glasses of beers or full two bottles of beers. I want to know that because I also intake beer but do not want spoil my health due to immoderate drinking.
nitin 9936179565 | Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
i m started just now …. its good …
within in 2 day gap i drink 650 ml
avinash darode | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
I will try and just check if my weight goes up or not
Alejandra Quinones | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
ii love beer too
so ii guess this are good benefits that ii can talk to my parents about now =D
Anonymous | Dec 22, 2008 | Reply
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pashpati | Dec 22, 2008 | Reply
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Nishant | Dec 25, 2008 | Reply
I have started drinking beer about 2 months back and its nice experience
jl | Mar 23, 2009 | Reply
I think it’s good only if you drink in moderation.
Lalit | Mar 23, 2009 | Reply
hi i have started to drink beer..its been one month..before my weight was 55 kg. i am 23 years old..it was quite low as my age..after starting drink beer. i increased my weight..that was nice experience.
Thanks
prasad | May 14, 2009 | Reply
hi, thanks for its benefits advice to me. i’l start 2morow regularly. may i know which one better beer?,.
Rahul | May 30, 2009 | Reply
Thanks..
harish | Jun 25, 2009 | Reply
am drinking four ful beer a day does it good for health or not
utkarsh | Aug 26, 2009 | Reply
hi,
its a good expirence for me after drinking beer at an alternate day….
it give me relaxation………mental peace -after a long tiring study……
as such no exesss weight increase..
ThomasJohnKurian | Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
It is really good to drink beer daily. It help us to have a healty liver and eyesight. Even u can avoid all the Back Pain, and Joint Pains. I have been taking beer for the past 20 years and it really helped me even to avoid a major Surgery when I met with a Car accident.
shrenik | Nov 22, 2009 | Reply
Really beer is nice to increase weight ,we can take per day 650 ml,and am doing tht from last 1 month its really working into me,and gaining weight,am happy & relax aftr having beer.