Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
Why Don't They Study Slam Dancing And Health Anymore?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 in - 3 comments
Another day, another bunch of odd academic studies from labcoated laboratorians or policy documents from lobbyist trying to tell us all what beer does with you or what you do when you are with your beer: • From France we learn that "when the music gets loud, we tend to drain our mug of brew …
BrewDog Is Encouraging You To Do Bad Bad Things
Posted by on Thursday, July 10, 2008 in - 1 comment
What a burden it must be to be a firm with cheeky humour in a land...known for its cheeky humour. What would Billy Connelly say about this new move by the clearly irresponsible madmen in charge of this brewery?!? • Earlier this year BrewDog, the award-winning microbrewery, faced being … read more »
How Much Is Really Too Much For A Craft Beer Fan?
Posted by on Monday, May 19, 2008 in - 5 comments
Boak...or is it Bailey...have a good post up tonight about the issue for non-drinkers in relation to drinkers. They/he/she ask how much is too much?. I think about this a fair bit. I try to find a guideline I can live with - and have found that I haven't needed to resort to either those Czech or …
Beer And Health: What Do You Do To Cope With the Brew?
Posted by on Friday, April 11, 2008 in - 6 comments
Just sixteen pounds of steel. But 270 pounds of me. That's pretty much what I realized last fall. I took some photos of me reliving past skills from 30 years back, kicking a 35 yard field goal¹ - and when I saw them I thought that I better do something. There is an elephant in the room when it …
The Heart Possessed By Love Of Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 in - leave a comment
You really should go read something worth your while like Martyn Cornell's latest post over at Zythophile - and not this story. Mine is but a cheap cut and paste job from Google news while his is a good in depth bit about the colour of mild. Yet his does not once reference a lady who received a …
Finally - The French Paradox Has A Beery Counterpart
Posted by on Saturday, March 15, 2008 in - 2 comments
Well, not really - but there is some sort of speculation going on about that very possibility: • “The ground-breaking study shows that the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in memory, spatial tasks and many other functions, was more than 10 per cent smaller in those whose tipple was …
When Beer And Science Converge
Posted by on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in - 1 comment
Vitamin enriched beer? Why go through the bother of a healthy diet or even taking a multi-vitamin pill when you can buy a beer that is also an invention. Stephen rightly pointed out the silliness of the idea when our Canadian national beer-challenged wine writer pronounced vitamins in beer the …
Overly Sensitive Drunken Rats Only Acting Normally
Posted by on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 in - leave a comment
I usually look for these beer and health stories as a means to keep telling myself that the stash is good for me, the stash is good for me. Now, however, it appears that while moderate consumption may sharpen the brain it could also be that the mopey college roommate of a pal was probably only …
Adding A Global Dimension To The National Toast For Michael
Posted by on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 in - 1 comment
As has been mentioned at Lew's, the BeerAdvocate and elsewhere, it has been announced at The Beer Hunter that a national toast will be held in the US at then end of the month in honour of the late Michael Jackson. The event is being held as a fund raiser for the US National Parkinson Foundation, a …
Health Minister Maybe Says Promoting Health Wrong Message
Posted by on Thursday, July 19, 2007 in - 1 comment
Help me with the logic. In Canada's eastern province of Nova Scotia, my old homeland, the Minister of Health Promotion and Protection, Barry Barnet, has told people just say no to attempts to use realty as a tool in assisting in health protection: • “...since the group most at risk …
