Brookston Beer Bulletin

Jay R. Brooks on Beer

  • Home
  • About
  • Editorial
  • Birthdays
  • Art & Beer

Socialize

  • Dribbble
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Github
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Powered by Head Quarters Built on WordPress
You are here: Home / News / Drink Up, Your Kidneys Will Thank You

Drink Up, Your Kidneys Will Thank You

August 25, 2007 By Jay Brooks Leave a Comment

According to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer last month entitled Alcoholic beverages and risk of renal cell cancer, moderate consumption of alcohol — ideally strong beer or red and white wine — may lower the risk of renal cell cancer, better known as kidney cancer. The study concluded that your odds of getting kidney cancer was reduced around 40% by drinking approximately two glasses of wine or two bottles or beer per week. Curiously, while strong beer, red wine and white wine had this positive effect, light beer, medium-strong beer, strong wine, or hard liquor had virtually no effect.

The study’s authors speculated on the reasons for this in their concluding remarks.

A reduced risk associated with consumption of wine and beer might be due to the phenolics they contain as these possess antioxidant and antimutagenic properties (Elattar and Virji, 1999; Denke, 2000) or increase plasma antioxidant capacity in human (Ghiselli et al, 2000). However, the lower risk that we observed for three different alcoholic beverages and total ethanol intake suggests that alcohol itself rather than a particular type of drink is responsible for the reduction in risk. However, it is unclear why we observed an inverse association only for strong beer and not for medium-strong, or light beer, although this might be due to the lower ethanol content of light (1.8%) and medium-strong (2.8%) beer compared to strong beer (4.5%).

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Europe, Health & Beer

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Northern California Breweries

Please consider purchasing my latest book, California Breweries North, available from Amazon, or ask for it at your local bookstore.

The Sessions

session_logo_all_text_1500

Next Session: April 6, 2018
#134: Beer Gardens
Previous Sessions
  • #133: Hometown Glories
  • #132: Homebrewing Talks
  • #131: 3 Things
  • #130: Fantasy Beer Festivals
  • #129: Missing Local Styles
Archive, History & Hosting

Enter your email address:

Typology Tuesday

Typology-png
Next Typology:
On or Before March 29, 2016
#3: Irish-Style Dry Stout
Previous Typologies
  • #2: Bock Feb. 2016
  • #1: Barley Wine Jan. 2016
Archive & History

Recent Posts

  • Beer Birthday: Stephen Beaumont April 25, 2018
  • Beer In Ads #2620: One Sour Note April 24, 2018
  • Beer Birthday: Jeremy Cowan April 24, 2018
  • Beer Birthday: Suzanne Woods April 24, 2018
  • Beer In Ads #2619: Good For You April 23, 2018

RSS Brookston Beer in Art

  • Aecht PatzenhoferUnknown Artist1914
    Aecht PatzenhoferUnknown Artist1914

Recent Comments

  • Terry Fisher on Beer In Ads #218: Why Is This Fabacher Smiling?
  • Roiger hughes on Beer In Ads #2172: Larry Hughes For Pabst
  • Craig Bodnar on Budweiser Admits Flavor “Drifted” Over the Years
  • joan barott on Historic Beer Birthday: Frederick Krug
  • Craft Beers in Ho Chi Minh. - The Crib on Beer: The Process
April 2018
S M T W T F S
« Mar    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930  

Find Something

Tag Cloud

Advertising Announcements Awards Bay Area Bottles Brewers Association Brewing Equipment Budweiser Business California Cans Christmas Europe Germany Great Britain Guinness Health & Beer History Holidays Hops Humor Infographics Kegs Law Mainstream Coverage National Northern California Oregon Pabst Packaging Patent Pennsylvania Photo Gallery Press Release Prohibitionists San Francisco Schlitz Science Science of Brewing Sports Statistics UK Uncategorized United States Video