Yah! Finally a good news study! Beer can help prevent prostate cancer.
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a compound found in hops that can inhibit a protein in the cells of the prostate gland, which can cause cancer.
The only “down side” — as the researchers are calling it — is that you would have to drink a lot of beer to achieve the prophylactic effect. Seventeen beers! (Or, a “night out”, as they call it in Ireland.)
Now, if only some researchers would hurry up and discover that watching young strippers shake their booty prevents Alzheimer’s in gents of a certain age and that eating seven or eight bags of potato chips actually makes you more virile, then we’d have something!
“Now, if only some researchers would hurry up and discover that watching young strippers shake their booty prevents Alzheimer’s in gents of a certain age”
Well. apparently this has already been proved! http://www.tech-sol.net/humor/true31.htm
Sadly, while looking up that link for this post, I found this which says it’s a hoax:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa072600a.htm
However, I have–on occasion–no problem with believing a hoax and living in denial. 🙂
Hey – just knowing that beer is “good for you” is something to be happy about! 🙂