From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 08:57:09 EST
jon@hackcraft.net wrote:
> Stout was indeed given as a health drink in small doses in
> certain cases, it's one of the few foods that are a good
> source of both iron and calcium. However the only doctor
> I've heard of recommending it in recent years was a bone
> specialist who was trained in China; he professed a belief
> that Guinness was why the Irish had thicker bones than the
> Chinese in his experience. There are considerably more
> doctors who would say that if you were going to drink a beer
> it should be stout, without going so far as to actually
> recommend it in and of itself.
You'll find also interesting studies about why French people
experiment low levels of heart/vessels diseases, despite they
eat above-average quantities of fat and sugars. One reason is
that they drink wine. A very moderate absorbtion of alcohol is
beneficial to the health, but this is true ONLY if you compare
populations drinking NO alcohol and those that just drink a
little.
This is easy to see when comparing children that drink no
alcohol and experiment more heart/vessel diseases than those
that drink a few milliliters of alcohol each day (a small
and beneficial absorbtion of alcohol is possible just by eating
fruits or drinking it in a medical form as food supplements).
A very small daily absorbtion of alcohol helps the body to
fluidify the blood and clean up its vessels from excesses of
fat. You don't need a lot (a full bottle of beer is not needed,
but you cannot keep beer drinkable for a long time once it has
been open).
That's why beer is not a recommanded form of absorbtion of
alcohol, as it requires you to exceed the sufficient level to
get its benefit. On the opposite, you can open a 75cl bottle
of wine at 6° (which contains 45ml of pure alcohol) and drink
it on three days to have 15ml of pure alcohol each day (a
reasonnable and beneficial level for adults of average weight
of about 80kg).
For children, due to their reduced weight, and thus reduced
volume of blood, this quantity must be reduced accordingly,
and this is possible by using medical forms of alcohol, that
you will find in pharmacies in products that also contain
essential oils, vitamins, and mineral supplements.
You should know that even babies are sometimes given tiny
quantities of alcohol within curing medications to help
them recover from infectious diseases: the needed quantity
is less than 5 milliliters.
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