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| Reference #: | 166 |
| Submit Date: | 10 Jun 2002 |
| Browse Category: | cancer |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | stout beer |
| You can buy this remedy at: | anywhere |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | www.newsoftheweird.com by Chuck Shepard |
| More Links about this Remedy: | http://www.nycbeer.org/special/hopshealth1.html |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 22,557 |
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| Dosage should be related to weight: | unknown |
| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
| Maximum dosages in relation to side effects and serious side effects: | unknown |
| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
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from news of the weird by Chuck Shepard:
"In a scholarly paper delivered at conferences in Japan, and the US in March and April, Japanese researchers from Okayama University and Japan's National Cancer Center announced that beer inhibited liver, prostrate, colon, and rectal cancers in rats by as much as 50%. Professor Sakae Arimoto said beer works on pre-cancers by controlling heterocyclic amines and that unlike other cancer-inhibiting foods (such asa spinach and brocccoli), only small amounts need be consumed to acquire the beneficial effects." ..................... source: http://www.nycbeer.org/special/hopshealth1.html Want to Lower Cancer Risk? Try Beer With Steak Beer, an Anticancer Potion? By Willam Loob An apple a day, according to folk wisdom, can keep the physician from knocking on your door. Now, according to a team of cancer researchers in Japan, a pint of beer with the grilled steak might not be such a bad idea either. The results of a study conducted by investigators at Okayama University offers some evidence that beer might actually help counteract the carcinogenic effects of a class of compounds found in cooked food. Specifically the study looked at the effects of beer on the mutations caused by these compounds that are the first steps in changing healthy cells into cancerous ones. The results were published in the January 1999 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The researchers examined the effectiveness of 24 different beers in thwarting mutations associated with several types of heterocyclic amines produced when heat is applied to food. Foods containing proteins produce especially high levels of the compounds, and their connection to tumor-forming processes were first reported more than a decade ago. The beers tested came from around the world, and included 17 lagers, four stouts, two ales and one nonalcoholic brew. Interestingly, the researchers found that the stouts demonstrated the most dramatic effects in inhibiting the cancer-related mutations, while the nonalcoholic beer and one of the lagers showed no such effects. The findings in this study help reinforce the idea that hops may have anticancer properties, as reported by others. In a 1995 study, conducted by another group Japanese researchers, experiments demonstrated that the flavonoids in hops (the yellow pigments in the blossoms) inhibit an inflammatory reaction in human skin tumor cells. Another study by investigators at Oregon State University in 1998 also showed that the flavonoids were toxic to certain cancerous human cells, though they were tolerated well by normal, noncancerous cells from the same types of human tissues. Analysis of the data gathered in the most recent study suggest, however, that a more complex reaction must be at work. Laboratory assays of Salmonella bacteria cultures were used to determine the ability of beer, wine, sake and various distilled spirits to prevent the mutations. Solutions of hop extracts that do not contain other compounds found in beer were also tested. In an ancillary set of experiments, the researchers fed one of the heterocyclic amine species to mice along with nonvolatile compounds obtained from beer, then measured the formation of DNA adducts in the livers of the mice. Some of the compounds from the hops did inhibit mutations, the investigators report, but the results could not be explained entirely by looking at individual compounds. They conclude that other, yet-unidentified compounds in beer must account for part of the antimutagenic effects observed in the experiments. ................... Commercial beer wastes a lot of water in its production. Home brew beer or mini-breweries use a lot less water in their production and hence more eco-friendly. To make a barrel of commercial beer requires 1,249 gallons of water. This makes 31 gallons of beer. Or, 258 twelve ounce bottles of beer to each beer barrel. Or, every twelve oz bottle uses 4.84 gallons water/bottle. ........................ beer goggles... The Dutch Nutrition and Food Research Institute studied 111 men and concluded that beer contains vitamin B6, which prevents the build up the chemical homocysteine, believed to be one of factors in heart disease. Wine and spirits did not have this effect to the same extent, they said. Excuse to drink beer on dates: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, according to the research by Scottish psychologist Barry Jones. In a study involving 80 Glasgow University students, he found men and women who had consumed a moderate amount of alcohol found the faces of the opposite sex 25 percent more attractive than their sober counterparts. While the "beer goggles" concept is hardly a surprise to any drinker, it's nice to back that up with scientific research |
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