In a novel study doctors claimed that drinking up to a pint of beer a day is good for your health and can diminish the threat of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. It is also demonstrated in the study that moderate intake of beer can even help obese to lose weight, when combined with healthy diet.
The beer contains calcium, vitamins, and folic acid, which the study claims provides a defensive effect on the cardiovascular system. The team of doctors Ramon Estruch and Rosa Lamuela tested twelve hundred and fifty males and females aged of fifty and above. The results of the study were very promising.
The participants who accompanied a Mediterranean diet with a pint of beer did not put on weight, however in some cases even lost weight. They found that beer provides the same health benefits accredited to moderate intake of wine. The participants who frequently drank moderate amounts of beer were less prone to endure from diabetes and high blood pressure.
Moreover such people also had a lower body fat content. In the previous study, researchers from Barcelona and Madrid recommended that women should drink two small glasses of beer a day whereas men should drink three glasses a day in combination with healthy diet and workout. There contain two hundred calories in a pint of large.
According to Dr Lamuela through this study they have banished myths. They know that beer is not to blame for obesity. Whereas Spanish beer drinkers did not be similar to their British counterparts who drink large quantities, almost moving from one spot, while eating fried chips and sausages, said Dr Estruch. That unhealthy combination was the cause of the British beer gut, they felt.