i'm not a vegetarian because i love animals, i'm a vegitarian because i hate plants.
after i get back down to 200, it'll be bbq season again, i'll be back to smokin an occasional pig & chicken (though they're hard to keep lit).
all things in moderation, and yes, beer is good for you.
thanks for the ping, Saber.
It would seem that this effect has been reasonably established. Why, then, have not the details been researched more vigorously?
There is Political Correctness even in science, albeit driven by a motive different from traditional partisan politcs, that simply will not allow entree to a radical finding---no matter how impecable the research design.
For example, consider the Nature vs Nurture fiasco on gender and sexual reassignment: Nature won--nurture cost a few kids their sanity (and genitals)---despite the Nurture-Bound scientists' bent toward a leftist, liberal agenda.
It took years, and much hardship for patients who were sexually reassigned as infants and who all failed in their doctor-imposed-but false-gender, to conclusively demonstrate the point:
Don't mess with Mother Nature.