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Guinness good for you

Posted by: biologyblog | March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment |



by Jessica

In the spirit of the holiday on Monday, I found this
article on the BBC News website.

According to experts from the University of Wisconsin,
drinking 24 fluid ounces of Guinness a day with meals can
prevent heart clots that may cause a heart attack.
According to research, “antioxidant compounds in the
Guinness, similar to those found in certain fruits and
vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits
because they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol
on the artery walls.” While Guinness wont put any health
clams on their beer, they are looking into the continued
testing of this claim. Now the same effect does not come
from all beers, testers looked for the same results in
lager and found that this was only true in Guinness. If
you want to read the whole article, you can find it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3266819.stm

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This is a really interesting article! I drank a lot of Guinness when I was studying in Wroxton. Some of my friends went to Ireland and visited the Guinness brewery. Its funny because Guinness tastes completely different in Europe. Everyone says it tastes a lot better than in the US. It’s funny that the slogan “Guinness is good for you” might actually be true! I’ll have to try one here to see. This article reminds me of how 1-2 glasses of red wine per day is good for you. It promotes cardiovascular health. The fact that Guinness is also good for the heart makes me think that the correlation between beer and wine- alcohol. According to the article, the alcohol in Guinness may contain “antioxidant compounds” that help prevent blood clots. Blood clots cause heart attacks. The other interesting part of the article is that advertising possible health claims would be problematic for Guinness because of EU regulations. This is a political aspect that I never thought about. It seems like the EU has a lot of regulations. In one of my articles, the EU was about to ban animal testing for cosmetics. I think it’s smart of the EU to impose these regulations.

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