Posts Tagged: Beer and Health
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 …
When Is Beer Organic?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 in - 7 comments
Gary, under a file with the special code name "Special report from correspondent Gary Rith", gave me the heads up about a flap over at least one beer claiming to be "organic": • “I tried Green Valley Brewery's Organic Wild Hops beer and reviewed it here a few months ago. I had seen it advertised …
The Costs Of Alcohol In Canada
Posted by on Saturday, March 24, 2007 in - 8 comments
The Globe and Mail, Toronto's national newspaper, has a very lengthy article, entitled "Alcoholics Accelerated" by Margaret Philp, on the social and medical costs of alcohol consumption in Canada. While I am not one of those who challenges every pronouncement against drinking, I do find it strange …
Just Another Reason I Am Glad I Never Took Up Smoking
Posted by on Monday, March 19, 2007 in - 3 comments
I am quite happy that my vices do not include tobacco. I am especially happy today given this news about a German idea for a new way to quit smoking which otherwise might claim me: • “Nautilus GmbH Laboratoriumsbedarf announced today the recent European launch of NicoShot, the world's first …
Why Do Researchers Do What They Do?
Posted by on Monday, January 15, 2007 in - leave a comment
Sometimes beer news is not really news about beer at all. One would imagine that were this to be learned about common suckweed or the meadowblort, this would not be news at all: • “Japanese researchers are reporting that hops, which give beer its bitter taste, are effective in mitigating various …
The Ladies And Escorts Door
Posted by on Saturday, January 13, 2007 in - 6 comments
I have only encountered the vestiges of this movement twice. Once with the LBR (or Lady's Beverage Room) on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, NS and again at the Douglas Tavern in Renfrew Co., Ontario according to the sign at one end saying "Ladies and Escorts" - the separation of the Canadian sexes …
So Health Ridden I Can't Believe It
Posted by on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in - leave a comment
Another week, another bundle of news about the health properties of moderate beer consumption. The Times of London published a report on a group of scientists who met in Brussels under the chairmanship of Professor Jonathan Powell, of the Medical Research Council human nutrition unit in Cambridge …
Traditional Values
Posted by on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 in - 3 comments
This story is only breaking in India and South Africa so far according to Google News: • “Spokesperson An Frankie said she was given beer at school as a child and called for a return to the old ways.” • Ah, the old ways...the 1606 ways...kids in the factory ways... • The Punjab in India …
Beer Before Smoothies...And Milk
Posted by on Thursday, March 9, 2006 in - leave a comment
Even I suspect this study a little, though for now I am blaming the cold remedies filling my brain: • “The report was paid for by the corporate parent of Lipton Tea, which is now using the scientists' advice to advertise tea's benefits. The nutritionists say they didn't know the extent of …
