Pale Ale better for you than soft drinks....
Today's Post: Monday, 2-8-2010
Several online news sources today had two stories of interest. Each of the two stories was reported by more than one source.
1. Readers of online news and this blog in particular already know that both regular and diet soft drinks tend to make people fat and to make it dramatically hard for people who drink them to lose fat and keep it off.
As we’ve posted often, just cutting out soft drinks alone can help many people who drink soft drinks lost 40 to 60 pounds of fat with NO increase in hunger or even becoming LESS hungry. (Unfortunately, the information I’ve seen is that diet soft drinks tend to make people so much MORE hungry for sweets, you have to stop drinking those also to avoid or stop being fat.)
But soft drinks do have other health dangers. For some people, knowing those other health dangers can help them to switch to coffee, tea, green tea, some real fruit juice, or water or even plain, carbonated water instead.
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly as metastasizing melanoma – virtually incurable with today’s knowledge -- and deadly. In fact, pancreatic cancer may be worse. There are now some promising therapies for late stage melanoma.
These things make today’s news very important and significant indeed.
A study published in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, said that the researchers who kept track of 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years found that some people, 140, developed pancreatic cancer.
The real surprise was that they also found that people in the study who drank as little as two or more soft drinks a week had an 87 % higher risk of getting pancreatic cancer than those who didn’t drink soft drinks!
The NewsMax article listed other risk factors for pancreatic cancer. To be fair, smoking increased the risk by 300%.
But the astounding finding in this study was how little was needed to produce this 87% higher risk. That’s two soft drinks a WEEK folks. NOT two soft drinks or more a DAY -- which is more typical of people who drink soft drinks. If that risk goes up when people drink seven times as much, typical drinkers of soft drinks, two or more a day, may face risks for pancreatic cancer comparable to smokers! Yikes !!
2. The story with dramatically better news about a common kind of recreational drink was for the kind of beer called Pale Ale. We know separately that men can drink a drink or two a day and usually have more health benefits than health harm. (More than that begins to be harmful and already is in some cases.) Women get less heart protection from drinking alcohol than men according to a recent Spanish study. (See our post last Friday, 2-5.) And they can only drink about half that much, one some days and rarely two for a total of 6 a week or less, before it does them more harm than good.
But the several stories today revealed that beer has an unusually bioavailable form of silicon which helps your bones become stronger and more dense.
Even better, the ales and pale ales in particular have so much of this form of silicon that just drinking two a week total has been found to help prevent osteoporosis.
So now, red wine has a good for your health competitor. In our area of the country, Sierra Pale Ale is often readily available. It’s good beer. And it’s just dark enough for people who like dark beer normally and just light enough for people who like beer that’s not dark.
The form of silicon in Pale Ales was found to be 50% bioavailable compared to the kind in bananas that’s 5% bioavailable. And, since Pale Ales have 30 to 56 mg of this kind of silicon per drink, drinking just two a week gives you 60 to 112 mg a week or an average of about 8.5 to 14 mg a day over a week’s time.
So, if, most weeks, you want to have a recreational drink or two with health benefits, you’ll prevent both pancreatic cancer and osteoporosis according to these stories if you stop drinking soft drinks and drink Pale Ale instead!
On a more serious note, you CAN get this form of silicon in hops supplements or by eating whole grain barley which is how it gets into the Pale Ale. So, if you’d like to get the bioavailable silicon without the alcohol, you can.
I was just struck by the two stories appearing on the same day and by the knowledge that both soft drinks and beer are drunk by people for enjoyment.
Why hurt your health with your recreational drink by drinking soft drinks, when you can make your bones stronger and get a bit of stress relief too by drinking a bit of Pale Ale instead?
Today's Post: Monday, 2-8-2010
Several online news sources today had two stories of interest. Each of the two stories was reported by more than one source.
1. Readers of online news and this blog in particular already know that both regular and diet soft drinks tend to make people fat and to make it dramatically hard for people who drink them to lose fat and keep it off.
As we’ve posted often, just cutting out soft drinks alone can help many people who drink soft drinks lost 40 to 60 pounds of fat with NO increase in hunger or even becoming LESS hungry. (Unfortunately, the information I’ve seen is that diet soft drinks tend to make people so much MORE hungry for sweets, you have to stop drinking those also to avoid or stop being fat.)
But soft drinks do have other health dangers. For some people, knowing those other health dangers can help them to switch to coffee, tea, green tea, some real fruit juice, or water or even plain, carbonated water instead.
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly as metastasizing melanoma – virtually incurable with today’s knowledge -- and deadly. In fact, pancreatic cancer may be worse. There are now some promising therapies for late stage melanoma.
These things make today’s news very important and significant indeed.
A study published in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, said that the researchers who kept track of 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years found that some people, 140, developed pancreatic cancer.
The real surprise was that they also found that people in the study who drank as little as two or more soft drinks a week had an 87 % higher risk of getting pancreatic cancer than those who didn’t drink soft drinks!
The NewsMax article listed other risk factors for pancreatic cancer. To be fair, smoking increased the risk by 300%.
But the astounding finding in this study was how little was needed to produce this 87% higher risk. That’s two soft drinks a WEEK folks. NOT two soft drinks or more a DAY -- which is more typical of people who drink soft drinks. If that risk goes up when people drink seven times as much, typical drinkers of soft drinks, two or more a day, may face risks for pancreatic cancer comparable to smokers! Yikes !!
2. The story with dramatically better news about a common kind of recreational drink was for the kind of beer called Pale Ale. We know separately that men can drink a drink or two a day and usually have more health benefits than health harm. (More than that begins to be harmful and already is in some cases.) Women get less heart protection from drinking alcohol than men according to a recent Spanish study. (See our post last Friday, 2-5.) And they can only drink about half that much, one some days and rarely two for a total of 6 a week or less, before it does them more harm than good.
But the several stories today revealed that beer has an unusually bioavailable form of silicon which helps your bones become stronger and more dense.
Even better, the ales and pale ales in particular have so much of this form of silicon that just drinking two a week total has been found to help prevent osteoporosis.
So now, red wine has a good for your health competitor. In our area of the country, Sierra Pale Ale is often readily available. It’s good beer. And it’s just dark enough for people who like dark beer normally and just light enough for people who like beer that’s not dark.
The form of silicon in Pale Ales was found to be 50% bioavailable compared to the kind in bananas that’s 5% bioavailable. And, since Pale Ales have 30 to 56 mg of this kind of silicon per drink, drinking just two a week gives you 60 to 112 mg a week or an average of about 8.5 to 14 mg a day over a week’s time.
So, if, most weeks, you want to have a recreational drink or two with health benefits, you’ll prevent both pancreatic cancer and osteoporosis according to these stories if you stop drinking soft drinks and drink Pale Ale instead!
On a more serious note, you CAN get this form of silicon in hops supplements or by eating whole grain barley which is how it gets into the Pale Ale. So, if you’d like to get the bioavailable silicon without the alcohol, you can.
I was just struck by the two stories appearing on the same day and by the knowledge that both soft drinks and beer are drunk by people for enjoyment.
Why hurt your health with your recreational drink by drinking soft drinks, when you can make your bones stronger and get a bit of stress relief too by drinking a bit of Pale Ale instead?
Labels: even two glasses a week of Pale Ale builds stronger bones, even two soft drinks a week increase risk for pancreatic cancer, prevent osteoporosis, risk factors for pancreatic cancer, Sierra Pale Ale
posted by David at 12:58 PM
1 Comments:
Moderated comment.
The balance of it I left out was more of an email to me personally.
David,
I've always known that soft drinks were bad for you but a 87% increase in pancreatic cancer is a pretty big deal. I hope they end up researching this more in depth to truly prove causation not just correlation.
Jason
(long time diabetic)
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