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Cancer-fighting agent found in beer
UPI ^
| Dec. 31, 2007
Posted on 12/31/2007 1:57:33 PM PST by Alouette
MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A key ingredient of beer may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German study indicated.
Studies indicated xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a family of enzymes that can trigger the cancer process, as well as help the body detoxify carcinogens, science newswire Ivanhoe reported Monday. Preliminary studies at Oregon State University show that xanthohumol can kill breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancers.
"It's very healthy. I think the ingredients in the beer are very good," Werner Back of Brewing Technology at the Technical University of Munich.
Xanthohumol contains more powerful antioxidants than vitamin E and some studies indicate it helps reduce oxidation of bad cholesterol, the newswire reported.
"Xanthohumol has been shown to be a very active substance against cancer," said Markus Herrmann , also in Munich. "It comes in small sticky beads, which you find within the hops."
But don't frost that mug just yet. It would take 60 regular beers to equal the amount of xanthohumol German researchers are able to brew in their one super beer.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: beer; cancer; health
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Happy New Year
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posted on
12/31/2007 1:57:36 PM PST
by
Alouette
To: Alouette
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posted on
12/31/2007 1:58:27 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: Alouette
If this is true, there should be very little cancer in Munich—LOL! Been there, and seen the way these people drink beer——
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posted on
12/31/2007 1:59:37 PM PST
by
basil
(Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: Alouette
I've found that it makes the girls look better too:
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posted on
12/31/2007 1:59:43 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
To: Alouette
But don't frost that mug just yet. It would take 60 regular beers to equal the amount of xanthohumol German researchers are able to brew in their one super beer.Done.
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:00:05 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
To: ElkGroveDan
Blonde, far right, doesn’t need the help. Hubba hubba!
As for the article, I’ll drink to that!
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:01:13 PM PST
by
TheDoctorNoh
(The road to hell is paved with liberal stupidity)
To: Alouette
Cancer-fighting agent found in beer
Talking from experience, there are lots of fighting agents in beer.........
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:01:50 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
To: Alouette
Cancer-fighting agent found in beerHow he got in my beer I'll never know.
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:01:50 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
To: Alouette
To: Alouette
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:02:46 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: Alouette
Beer, breakfast of Champions!
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:03:46 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: Alouette
It would take 60 regular beers Sounds about right. Excuse me, I have to go to the beer store.
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:04:51 PM PST
by
groanup
(When companies fail they go out of business. When a gov't project fails it gets bigger. M.F.)
To: groanup
we need , sometime, to start a thread called
************** BEER STORIES *****************
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:07:27 PM PST
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: Squantos
“Drink MORE beer” ping! :-)
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:08:28 PM PST
by
hiredhand
(My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
To: Alouette
MMMmmm Xanthohumol ..... aaarrrgghhhhlllglglg
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:11:20 PM PST
by
GregoTX
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: Texas Eagle
LOL
60 beers, is that all. I figured it would be, you know, a lot. Hell 60 beers is an afternoon at the lake. :)
To: Alouette
My buddy will live forever!!
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:13:55 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: Alouette
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:14:05 PM PST
by
fatima
(Free Hugs for Christmas:))
To: CDHart
For your alternative cancer therapies research.
To: Alouette
It would take 60 regular beers to equal the amount of xanthohumol German researchers are able to brew in their one super beer. Thats got to one BITTER, aromatic beer. The king of all IPAs......
Love to try it!
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posted on
12/31/2007 2:14:38 PM PST
by
Species8472
(Politically motivated science is meaningless)
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