The next time you find yourself sweating in the sun, watching a game on TV, or hanging out at a bar, you can reach for a cold beer to help fight off heart disease. It's true. School teachers, religious fanatics and puritans may have distorted the truth to prevent you from enjoying a fresh brew. In reality, there is nothing to feel guilty about, as long as you consume a reasonable amount the beverage.
Doctors recommend drinking a beer a day if you are a woman. If you are a guy, make it two brews every day. Not only can you depend on brew to assist the strength of your heart, beer also assists other parts of your body, like manufacturing proteins and fighting off coronary disease. After all, the drink contains multiple flavonoids, as well as antioxidants. There are multiple nutrients, minerals and vitamins, such as magnesium, calcium and iron. Depending on the type of beer you drink, you will be getting mixed amounts of fiber, calcium, iron and potassium.
Besides relieving stress, beer can be ideal for your heart, as the risk of coronary disease is weakened by 32%. Alcohol has positive effects on artery walls, and reduces levels of fibrinogen, a clot-producing protein. Of course, the carbs in beer can add inches to your waistline. However, the market is now full of new brews that are lower in carbs.
I am sure that you are familiar with the benefits of drinking red wine. The alcohol found in beer benefits your heart, and fights off illness-forming bacteria. In fact, studies show that brew works better than wine in preventing heart disease. Like wine, beer has been shown to reduce blood pressure and strokes, while increasing coronary blood flow. Believe it or not, beer even raises your good cholesterol, while lowering your bad cholesterol. Drinking beer also fights against Alzheimer's, diabetes, ulcers, hepatitis A, pancreatic cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Not unlike red and white wine, beer is made with small levels of polyphenols, groups of chemical substances found in plants. In labs, polyphenols have reduced the growth of prostate, breast and colon cancers. Yet, the health benefits of a cold brew do not stop there. Beer is also wonderful for fighting off Peripheral Vascular Disease and Peripheral Artery Disease, also known as PAD.
Most folks consume large amounts of beer, without even knowing what ingredients they are putting in the beer-bellies. The drink contains mostly water, hops, yeast and malt. Simple H2O makes up about 90 percent of beer. These days, the water is chemically altered in breweries until it has the ideal properties to make stouts, along with various flavored ales. Flavoring also derives from yeast converting the fermentable sugars in the brew. The diverse characteristics of an ale or lager derive from different strains of yeast will produce. The necessary sugar for the taste comes from malted barley. The type and amount of malted barley used determines the final alcohol content and flavor. Of course, manufacturers can get creative with other cereals, but the taste would change so much, it would no longer be considered beer.
Conservative drinkers have a 32 percent lower risk of dying from heart failure than those who choose not to drink any beer. So sit back, and crack open a cold one to start improving your health. Come on, everyone's doing it!
Now that I am middle-aged, my wife thinks that I should stop drinking beer to help with weight loss. I did a little research on beer and how to lose weight fast. I discovered that beer has so many health benefits, it can actually help my heart to enjoy a cold one every day. Woo Hoo!
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