Always looking for ways to stay healthy, today I found this article. Come to find out beer is good for your bones.
Beer’s a bone-builder, say experts. BEER is a rich source of a nutrient that can help prevent weak bones – but it depends what type you drink.
As one of the nation’s favorite tipples, dietary silicon in beer can help cut the chance of developing diseases such as osteoporosis, researchers say.
However, health experts are warning against using beer as a source of the nutrient. [Blah, blah,blah] And not all beers are the same, with those containing malted barley and hops having higher silicon content than beers made from wheat. [Darn, I was really starting to enjoy Blue Moon]
According to the study from researchers at the University of California, beer was a major source of dietary silicon – roughly half of the silicon in beer can be readily absorbed by the body.
And you can’t put out news like this without your disclaimer.
Dr Claire Bowring, from the National Osteoporosis Society, said: “While the society welcomes measures to improve bone health we do not recommend anyone increases their alcohol consumption on the basis of these studies.
UPDATE:
In a related study, there is a great deal of evidence that beer can also lead to pregnancy.
As the new Deficit-Hawk Administration assures us that they has America’s best interests at heart, this story explains where some of those hard earned tax-dollars are going.
(IsraelNN.com) The United States announced on Thursday that it will donate $40 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Arabs in the Palestinian Authority-assigned areas, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria who fled when Israel was established in 1948. About a quarter of the package is supposed to be designated for food and the creation of jobs. The rest is for maintaining basic services provided by the agency.
The American funding comes despite a report commissioned by the European parliament, which showed that Hamas terrorists have been chosen by the agency’s labor union to oversee its Gaza facilities, which was part of a Canadian decision last month to stop its UNRWA funding.
I wondered how in the world the administration could possibly justify this one, but then I saw “labor union” in the story. Say no more.
And in case you missed it during the 3rd quarter of the SuperBowl, our own Federal Government ran an as promoting the census. Not very funny [by SuperBowl standards] and I’m still waiting for the punchline. But at least you know what your $2.5 million bought in the way of a Census ad. It’s no Betty White playing football and talking smack, that’s for sure.
Here’s the Super-Bowl Ad that caused the pro-choice folks to get their panties in a bunch. Actually. it’s a pretty cute commercial. Seem like much ado about nothing. Unless the fake tackle Tim put on his Mom will get trumped up as a domestic violence charge.
UPDATE: File this under just plain weird but state-run AP described the Tebow like this:
And a commercial by conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, perhaps the most anticipated ad of the night, hinted at a serious subject although it took a humorous tone too. Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy—implying an antiabortion message—but ended with Tebow tackling his mom and saying the family must be “tough.”
I must have been watching a different SuperBowl, ‘cuz I sure didn’t see any of that. Can anyone say “agenda-driven“?
DOUBLE UPDATE: The National Organization of Women still have their panties in a bunch over the Tebow ad:
In remarks that are raising eyebrows from pro-life advocates, NOW president Terry O’Neill said that bit of the ad glorified violence against women.
“I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”
Just no keeping these NAGS [National Association of Gals] happy, is there?
Outrage over the encroachment of the Big Brother state showed up at an entirely new venue this week.
Carrying signs that read “Will Flash for Cash” and “Cops Not Cameras,” several dozen people rallied this afternoon to protest photo enforcement methods.
Leaders of Arizona Citizens Against Photo Radar, an organization that is gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to ban use of such traffic monitoring devices, held a press conference and then march outside the office of Reflex Traffic Systems in far north Phoenix. The company has a contract with the state to operate photo enforcement operations.
“Photo radar has to end,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told the crowd. “I’ve never seen a camera stop a car or tow a car . . . This is an additional tax on our citizens.”
Although Gov. Jan Brewer has said she might let the contract with Redflex expire in July to let voters to decide the issue, Babeu isn’t convinced she’ll follow through. Babeu said people thought he was taking too much of a risk when he urged county leaders to end its contract in 2009 with Redflex. “It wasn’t the best way to enforce public safety.”
Like the Tea Party people, I can’t wait for the vilification of these citizens to begin.
For all of my friends who are on the East Coast dealing with 30+ inches of global warming, I give you this blast from the past. From the TV series, In Search Of…….
Always looking for ways to stay healthy, today I found this article. Come to find out beer is good for your bones.