Top reasons beer is actually good for you (Warning: Lockerroom Graphics)

Fox News ^ | May 21, 2015

[jazusamo]

Beer lovers, rejoice! Not only does beer taste great, and make you feel "buzzed" on life, beer is also good for you. Well, in moderation.

As pints are poured in bars and restaurants across the country, know that drinking beer has real health benefits.*

• 1. Decreased incidence of heart disease

  

  There are more than 20 well-done, large international studies that all demonstrate the heart benefits of moderate alcohol consumption. One study, conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) noted a 20 to 40 percent decrease in coronary artery disease in moderate alcohol drinkers. Now, that doesn’t mean drinking more is better.

  Drinking beer responsibly is drinking healthy. Moderate consumption of beer (alcohol) results in an increase in HDL (good cholesterol) and a decrease in LDL (bad cholesterol), along with an improvement in both HDL and LDL particle size.

  So, don’t worry about the medical terms; just know that a slightly "buzzed" heart is a happy heart.

• 2. Hops have vitamins

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[PROCON]

Now that is a great looking mug. :)

Yup, both of 'em.

[Billthedrill]

Apparently it's good for upper-body strength, too. I mean, do you REALIZE what a dozen liters of beer weighs?

[Jagdgewehr]

[ETL]

“If you hate beer, then you’ll absolutely loathe sausage flavored beer.”

My guess would be that would be the case even if you like beer. But you never know these days.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Beer makes women more attractive. I never went to bed with any ugly women but I’ve woken up with a few.

[Fair Paul]

It’s a great time to be a beer drinker right now. I love exploring the different microbrews when I travel to different cities, they (the microbrews, not the cities) have proliferated over the past 5+ years.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL! Yes I am sure I would hate it.

Or how about bubblegum beer. That would be gross. Or popcorn beer. Nothing is worse than popcorn jellybeans except maybe popcorn beer.

[jazusamo]

Funny pics, love the squirrel.

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[PROCON]

Most large American breweries turn out beer flavored water and is bitter.

As a moderate, but big beer lover I prefer this Australian Ale and have been drinking it for years.

"Fosters, it's Australian for be'err".

[Riley]

Rauchbier (smoke beer) tastes of barbecue. Could it have been that?

Rauchbier can be very good stuff. I am partial to Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier from Bamberg, Germany. It is available in the US at well-stocked beer and wine places.

First had it at a German restaurant in Stafford, VA on the advice of an Internet pen-pal who lives there- we were having a text conversation over dinner and she suggested it.

[windcliff]

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[arbitrary.squid]

Absolutely. And I personally would have to add that the good lord also gave us “every seed-bearing plant”, and that includes one of my favorites, cannabis.

[jazusamo]

Even though the last one doesn’t look like a heavyweight lifter she has to be. :)

[al_c]

Beer is food … that’s reason enough.

[IYAS9YAS]

That settles what I'm having with supper tonight.

Bacon for breakfast, bacon for lunch, and I drink my dinner...

[jazusamo]

“Beer makes women more attractive.”

Especially at closing time.

[PROCON]

Some of my fondest, yet foggiest memories are in the Oktoberfest beer tents....

And not too ashamed to admit that I have been drank "under the table" by a few German frauleins.

[equaviator]

STELLA!...Hey, STELLA!...