Posted on 04/07/2014 12:47:17 AM PDT by kingattax
Many of us choose what we eat very carefully, or at least dedicate our minimum attention to it. But when it comes to drinks, especially alcoholic beverages, we do little to make the best decisions for our health. Which is a HUGE mistake.
All the work for your body can be ruined in a weekend out. While foods and non alcoholic beverages are required to list their ingredients and are monitored by the FDA, beer does not belong in either.
Alcohol industry had lobbied for years to avoid labeling its ingredients. Some to protect its recipes, but most – to hide harmful ingredients.
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It’s important to expose companies that use harmful ingredients in our products. This information is hidden from the public with millions of dollars of false advertising, laws, etc. You can always vote with your money. As this information about GMO beers spreads, we will see a decrease in production of these beers and the companies may eliminate the harmful ingredients altogether. Most importantly, when you hang out with your friends, you will be able to share beer that’s more delicious and healthier.
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I’ll continue to drink Budweiser Select.
You should stop drinking everything on that list anyway because they all suck... Tons better options out there
Ummm...no.
Just make your own, it’s actually very easy, and you control whatever you put into it.
I like Guinness and Newcastle.
I doubt either of those is particularly good for you.
But fish bladders? Sound totally natural and appropriate to me.
They are fine but there are much better beers out there. Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale and Oatmeal Stout instead of New Castle and Guinness for example.
I was in a helicopter unit in Vietnam. The arrival of a pallet load of San Miguel beer was met with rejoicing & hosannahs.
San Miguel had no peer. For us it was the best there was.
Have been drinking Yuengling lately; as for Bud I’m reminded of the joke Monty Python had. It wasn’t in the TV version of the “Bruces” at the Univ. of Woolamaloo, but in live performances/albums one of the “Bruces” says, “American beer is like having sex in a boat: it’s f-—ing close to water”. (Yuengling is a US beer, but DOES have some flavor though!)
I think I saw an article in USA Weekend in Sunday paper where “The Doctors” recommended what you should and shouldn’t have, health wise, at a ballpark. Hot dog vs nachos? Hot dog not as harmful. Soda or beer? They said beer is not as harmful, as long as it’s in moderation.
They put Pabst on there? A cheaply priced beer that some like for cost (one place I go to had featured $1 16 oz drafts...then thew switched to Rolling Rock) and of course there’s that Dennis Hopper scene in Blue Velvet: Heineken?
F-— that s-—! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON! (gets a chuckle)
Give up Newsy Brown, over my dead liver.
Yes, but you can’t get them at as many places and they are less expensive.
New Castle? Nooooooooo!
I'd be very wary about making that assertion. It's like saying only one brand of cigarette will give you cancer.
Beer preference is to health & longevity as CO2 is to climate change.
The St. Patrick’s Day parade taught me which beers I should not drink.
When I am traveling, I make an effort to at least try the beers made near where I am. Of course, once I was near Atlanta and asked the waiter (who looked to be about 18 years old) what kind of beer they had that was brewed locally. He initially looked a bit perplexed and then blurted out, “We have Budweiser”. I ordered a martini.
He probably didn’t know what “brewed” meant.
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