Beer has health benefits’

NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BY GEOFF IYATSE

Contrary to the popular perception, health experts said beer had lots of health and lifestyle benefits when consumed moderately. They said this at the first Beer and Health Symposium, an initiative of Nigerian Breweries Plc aimed at changing what the company considered as a faulty public perception towards the product.

Speaking at the event held in Lagos on Tuesday, Prof.
Bankole Omotosho of the University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa, said beer could prevent diabetes; reduce stomach ulcer and cholesterol level when consumed moderately.

Omotoso regretted that religion and wrong perception had prevented many people from benefiting from the medical value in beer consumption. He added, “Many people have never looked at beer beyond alcohol.”

The university don, however, warned against its abuse, advising men to restrict themselves to one to three bottles. The female folks due to their slower alcohol absorption rate, he said, should take less quantity.

“To drink moderately is to drink within the limit set by your health, society and obligations to family and
friends. Nobody wants to be a nuisance to the society,” he added.

Omotoso traced the history of beer to about 400,000
years ago when Babylonian fathers-in-laws would supply the substance to their newly-married sons-in-law, saying the rite was instituted in recognition of its (beer) health value.

He argued that beer could not have had negative effects when its top four ingredients – barley, hops, water and yeast - have enormous health advantage.
The Head of Food Technology, The Bells University of
Technology, Dr. Olu Malomo, dismissed the masculine myth about beer consumption.

He argued that the first beer brewers could not have
been women if it was exclusively a drink for men.
“While religious bigots kick against beer consumption, it is important to note that modern brewing started in monasteries,” he said, adding that the drink was a natural drink brewed from natural ingredients.

He added that both men and female benefitted from
moderate beer consumption whereas African culture
frowned on female consumers. Malomo said the ability of sorghum, a beer ingredient, to reduce mortality and cardiovascular diseases had been clinically proved.

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Especially a cold bottle of HARP.

Thanks but no thanks. The last thing I want right now is a pot belly.

Of course beer contains all essential vitamins.

What should we do nah! The minuses are more than the pluses

#teamZER0toleranceToAlcohol