17 beers a day keep prostate cancer away

Tuesday, November 7. 2006

Theoretically, anyway, especially when taken with pizza with tomato sauce

Well, you heard it. Beer Day discovers that beer is really healthy! Well, ok we surfed the internet until we (Beer Day) found something to support our wildest dreams.

Here is part of the associated press article.

PORTLAND, Ore. - For many men, a finding by Oregon researchers sounds too good to be true: An ingredient in beer seems to help prevent prostate cancer, at least in lab experiments.

The trouble is you'd theoretically have to drink about 17 beers a day for any potential benefit. And no one's advising that.

Researchers at Oregon State University say that the compound xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a protein in the cells along the surface of the prostate gland. The protein acts like a switch that turns on a variety cancers, including prostate cancer.

source, msnbc.com

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