Beer as part of a healthy diet

History of the beer belly should once and for all finally be rewritten. The truth is that beer supplies fewer calories than most alcohol-free beverages. It also stands completely apart from the high discrepancy of the many calorie-rich alcoholic drinks.

In addition, there are a quantity of important things in beer: valuable vitamins, compensatory minerals (potassium for healthy blood pressure), a lot of magnesium (for the prevention gall and kidney stones), active compounds that prevent dismantling of calcium in the bones, and soluble fibre which provides for good intestinal function and contribute to the lowering of cholesterol. Additionally, beer drinkers are protected from "Helicobacter pylori", an organism that causes ulcers.

Naturally, the beneficial affects of these positive factors really occur only when beer is consumed in moderation.

Moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages is healthy

Good to know: The moderate enjoyment of alcoholic beverages not only tastes good, but is also healthy. Several studies world wide have directly come to this realization.

They prove that beer, when drunk in moderate quantities, protects from cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and forms of stroke. One even estimates that the daily admission of 30 grams of alcohol (corresponding to 3 glass of beer) can reduce the risk of an illness to the cardiac system by 24.7 %. The reason for this fact might be on the one hand that alcohol increases the "good" HDL cholesterol. Already 1 glass of beer allows the HDL cholesterol index to rise up to 4 %. Secondly, alcohol works against the formation of blood clots.

Researchers have even increasingly vouched for the fact that moderate consumption of alcohol prevents the formation of gall stones, osteoporosis and diabetes. Naturally, with all the studies outside variables, such as life-style, nutrition, pre-existing illnesses, etc, must be considered. However, the results still remain interesting: Moderate consumption of alcohol decreases the risk of heart and circulatory illness by 17 %. Moderate enjoyment of alcohol equates - as preventative measure - with the ingestion of aspirin, weight control and physical exercise.