Got Beer?

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking beer or eating certain components found in the beverage seems to protect against colon cancer in rats, new research shows. Whether this holds true in humans, however, remains to be determined.

In the new study, Dr. Hajime Nozawa, from Kirin Brewery Co. in Yokohama, Japan, and colleagues assessed the ability of beer or its components to prevent a type of chemically induced colon cancer in rats. The results are reported in the International Journal of Cancer.

Consumption of beer or malt extract for two weeks reduced the amount of DNA damage that occurred. Moreover, beer intake for the full five-week study period reduced the formation of early lesions that can become colon cancer.

The ability of beer to inhibit these lesions depended on the type of malt with dark-roasted malts being more effective than pilsner malts. In addition, only freeze-dried beer, not ethanol, had a protective effect.

Intake of malt extract also inhibited the early lesions, but consumption of hops extract did not, the researchers note.

In a 42-week follow-up study, beer intake was associated with a 22-percent reduction in the tumor rate, including a big drop in the number of cancers.

"The results suggest that daily moderate consumption of beer may reduce the risk of cancer susceptibility in colon," the authors state. However, further studies are needed to verify this and to determine the mechanisms involved, they add.

SOURCE: International Journal of Cancer, January 2004.

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I heard something the other day I though was funny.


White field mice are more suspeptable to getting cancer from cell phones

White field mice are more suspseptable to getting cancer from car smog

white field mice are more suspseptable to getting cancer from certain shampoo's


Why hasn't there been a study to see if white field mice have cancer via heridity?

[Stump]

I'll be the volunteer for the beer study.

[oscarmitre]

I read this research a while ago. Apparently someone called Homer Simpson PhD at the University of Springfield was wriiting it up for the American Journal of Beerology - it's not available online but the editor is a Barney someone.

[Island_Girl]

I have a wine preference myself, but if there's pizza.....there's got to be BEEEER!!!!

[Jcrazy]

Just one more reason to throw back a cold one once in a while.

[Jynkxxie]

Sounds good to me!

[mcsap]

Somehow I suspect there are a lot of RPer's who SHOULDN'T be getting cancer anytime soon !!