Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world. It is also the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.
Beer is brewed from Cereal grains such as wheat,maize (corn), and rice are also used. During the brewing process, fermentation of the starch sugar in the wort produces Ethanol and Carbonation in the resulting beer. Most modern beer is brewed with Hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilizing agent. Other flavouring agents such as gruit, herbs, or fruits may be included or used instead of hops. In commercial brewing, the natural carbonation effect is often removed during processing and replaced with forced carbonation.
Here is the 10 benefits of Beer
- Studies suggest moderate beer drinking may make you less likely than those who don’t drink to suffer from hearts attacks, strokes or heart disease. In fact, studies evaluating the relative benefits of wine versus beer versus spirits suggest that moderate consumption of any alcoholic beverage is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease.
- Researchers found that moderate beer drinkers had a 42 percent lower risk of heart disease compared to non-drinkers. For maximum protection, keep your consumption around 5 percent alcohol by volume a day, the researchers say.
- Knocking back a beer or two won’t make you smarter, but it could boost your creativity, according to a study in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.
- When 40 men watched a movie while completing verbal puzzles, beer-buzzed guys with a blood alcohol content of .075 solved the problems a few seconds faster than others.
- Researchers analyzed 38,000 male health professionals and found that when men who weren’t big boozers began drinking moderately over 4 years, they were significantly less likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
- Increased alcohol consumption over time didn’t lower the risk in men who already had a couple drinks a day, so moderation is the key word here.
- Researchers found that more drinks people consumed, the more attractive they found themselves.
- In a second study, the researchers asked participants who had consumed either a real or fake alcoholic drink to give a speech. When asked to evaluate how good-looking, smart, and funny they felt they were during their talk, people who thought they gave themselves more positive self-evaluations—regardless of whether or not they were actually buzzed.
- According to the National Institutes of Health Organization “Due to its high silicon content, beer may help to build stronger bones. Dietary silicon in the soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA) may be important for the growth and development of bone and connective tissue and help reduce the risk of Osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disease.”
- Guys who stuck to one or two brews had up to 4.5 percent greater bone density than non-drinkers—but more than two beers was associated with up to 5.2 percent lower density, according to the study.
- Beer contains a few special components, including lupulone and xanthohumol, that have been shown to fight cancer. Studies with rats revealed that, even in low doses, these chemicals are effective in protecting the colon and other organs from the damage of carcinogens (cancer-causing agents).
- More research needs to be done in regards to how beer can protect the body from cancer, seeing that alcohol abuse can result in significantly higher cancer risks. One drink a day can provide the benefits of the anti-cancer chemicals without over-burdening the liver and stressing the body in other areas.
- Beer, especially unfiltered or lightly filtered beer, turns out to be quite nutritious, despite the years of suppression of those facts by various anti-alcohol groups. Beer has high levels of B vitamins, particularly folic acid, which is believed to help prevent heart attacks. Beer also has soluble fiber, good for keeping you regular, which in turn reduces the likelihood that your system will absorb unhealthy junk like fat. Beer also boasts significant levels of magnesium and potassium, in case you were planning on metal-plating your gut.
- Beer not only has no cholesterol, it can actually improve the cholesterol in your body. In fact, drinking beer regularly and moderately will tilt your HDL/LDL cholesterol ratios the right way. You’ve got two kinds of cholesterol in your system: HDL, the “good” cholesterol that armor-plates your veins and keeps things flowing, and LDL, the “bad” cholesterol that builds up in your veins like sludge in your bathtub drain.
- Beer power-flushes the system and keeps the HDL levels up. According to some studies, as little as one beer a day can boost your HDL by up to 4 per cent.
- Moderate drinking is good for you, and beer is good for moderate drinking. Everyone knows that if you drink too much, it’s not good for you.But more and more medical research indicates that if you don’t drink at all, that’s not good for you either. According to numerous independent studies, moderate drinkers live longer and better than drunks or non-drinkers.
- Beer is perfect for moderate drinking because of its lower alcohol content and larger volume compared with wine or spirits.
- If you’re someplace where you are advised not to drink the water, the local beer is always a safer bet. It’s even safer than the local bottled water.
- Beer is boiled in the brewing process and is kept clean afterwards right through the bottle being capped and sealed, because if it isn’t, it goes bad in obvious ways that make it impossible to sell. Even if it does go bad, though, there are no life-threatening bacteria(pathogens) that can live in beer. So drink up – even bad beer is safer than water.
