A Good News Day... Beer fights Cancer.. Hallelujah!!

Just when you felt things were at their darkest with criminals running the country, theft and deceit as a new Canadian value and the police state spying on your phone calls and e-mail....the Lord provides a shaft of golden light in the gloom. In this case it is light shining through a golden shaft of beer. A new University study in cancer research has found that a key ingredient in beer ( xanthohumol , from the hops) produces a powerful anti-cancer agent.

"But if ways can be developed to significantly
increase the levels of xanthohumol or use it as a nutritional supplement - that
might be different. It clearly has some interesting cancer chemopreventive
properties, and the only way people are getting any of it right now is through
beer consumption."

Apparently the only way to get this now, until the health food suppliment industry isolates it and produces oral capsule, is drink beer!..Hoppy beer is best. The news article states that Porter and Stout contain higher hop levels but this is misleading. There are plenty of ales, like India pales and lagers like steam beer that have ample hop content.

Then I read this:

"And a supposed "health" beer is being developed in
Germany with higher levels of xanthohumol.

God bless that German engineering...while the brewers on this side of the Atlantic are busy sucking the goodness out of commercial beer to sell it to bar-hopping fudgepackers and Liberals ( aren't these the same?) the Germans are developing a cancer cure with full body, frothy head and German brewing whallop to it. German anti-cancer beer...medicine where is thy sting? Wahoo! ....I can see the squat-to-pee "light beer" market just crashing....except for the sister boys that still sip this gutless soda water. Here's my personal recommendation for high xanthohumol hopped anti-cancer imbibing until the "health drink" hits the shelves:

Liberty ale
Anchor Steam Beer
Bock beers like Schneider Aventinus
Frankenheim Altbier
Magnotta Altbier
Magnotta India Pale Ale
Hoegaarten White beer

Cheers, and have a good time cancer fighting...and oh..take yer woman with you:

"In recent years, it has also been shown that some
prenylflavonoids found in hops are potent phytoestrogens, and could ultimately
have value in prevention or treatment of post-menopausal "hot flashes" and
osteoporosis - but no proper clinical trials have been done to study this.
Information about these compounds appears to be spreading. Hop-containing herbal preparations are already being marketed for breast enlargement in
women"

Ein Prosit fellow travellers!..To your health!