Drink-a-Pint

Looking for a couple good reasons to crack open a beer after work? Sure, who isn’t! Of course, there’s so many social stigmas to overcome. Drinking on a worknight? Having a beer before 5pm? Sneaking a beer into church? All things that are, unfortunately, generally considered socially unacceptable. (Reasons #242, #243 and #244 to start a new society…)

Thankfully, we’ve got the crackerjack reporters at The Dallas Morning News fighting for us with great articles like this one I ran across: Good (as in healthy!) Reasons to Drink Beer.

Among the health benefits:

• Decreased chance of having a heart attack - Moderate consumption can make men who drink it have a 30 to 35 percent less likely chance of having a heart attack than abstainers.
• Increased levels of good cholesterol - It apparently also has a positive effect on the lining of blood vessels, says Dr. R. Curtis Ellison of Boston University School of Medicine.
• Less chance of developing dementia - Lower dementia rates were reported by adults over age 65 who drank one to six alcoholic beverages over a week than their abstaining or over-imbibing counterparts. Such is the word from a 2003 study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Of course, they did mention that other studies have shown that consuming at least two glasses of alcohol a day can increase a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer, but that’s the ying to the yang. Here at Drink-A-Pint, we try to spread positivity, so here’s to less dementia, more good cholesterol and fewer heart attacks!