Posted on 02/16/2005 9:46:38 PM PST by neverdem
It must be true. I can attest to the fact that I've never been poisoned when I drink beer or wine with a meal.
It seems the more we learn about alcohol, the more we learn of its health benefits. Is this a wonderful world or what?
Sam Adams Light is great with dinner.
Not suprising. Our bodies are better adapted to process alcohol than they are to process dairy.
Cheers!
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Yes. A lot of pagan religions had wine gods, but I don't think any of them had milk gods.
And salut to you, my friend!!
Me either. Then again, I've been known to forget things that happened after I did a bit of drinking...
Bars are to Spain as slot machines are to Las Vegas. No wonder everyone's healthy here.
Once again, science confirms the Bible.
As much as teetotalling Christians don't like it, Paul advises Timothy to "drink a little wine for the stomach's sake".
In Valhalla, Odin had a goat that gave an endless supply of mead instead of milk. I always thought that was cool...
Maybe, but I don't see any reason to take chances. Avoid food - the stuff'll kill ya. Drink beer.
I'll take a Long-Island Icetea please! Make it a double for me, one after another!
When the Pilgrims came over in 1620,they brought their wine and beer making stills as they didn't drink water in the Old Country - it was so polluted, to drink it was to invite death.
They were happy to learn that the water here was 'sweet' and safe - but they didn't give up their regular rations ;o)
I do know that cider vinegar - about a tablespoon in a juice glass of warm water - will almost always stop the cramping and halt the progress. When eating out, if I don't have wine, I have salad with oil and vinegar.
I had some nasty rubber chicken last Thursday. I had a big road trip to go on Friday morning, so I sent the chicken back after eating roughly 1/3 of it, and killed off all the microbial nasties with a few pints of Guinness.
I woke up fine, and totally believe this article.
FWIW!
Resveratrol (found in red wine), activates sirtuins which have been shown to increase cellular lifespan. Go for red wine. If you want beer, try Gunniess as it has flavanoids which are relatively potent antioxidants.
That certainly wouldn't explain Yushchenko then. Those Ukrainians drink more than they eat!
Back in college I spent one Spring Break in Mazatlan, Mexico. From the moment I got on the train, I spent the trip in an alcoholic haze. My roommate and I polished off a quart of Jose Cuervo a day, mixed into tequila sunrises, and it was usually gone before dinner and followed by an evening of further heavy drinking.
We ate fish tacos from pushcarts on the street, and bean burros bought from old ladies who walked the beach with buckets full of them. We ate in the most appalling dive restaurants in back alleys. We didn't drink the water, but we brushed our teeth in it, which I learned later is just as bad.
Most of the people we went down there with got the "Montezuma's Revenge" shortly after arrival, but not us. We were as happy and healthy as if we were in a Starbucks in Des Moines.
Since then I have made it a point to always keep a little alcohol in my stomach when traveling in the Third World. I can't remember the last time I had so much as a tummy ache.
-ccm
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