Comments on: A pint a day…

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:39:19 +0000

graybo – baaaa… I’m just following the crowd. And, frankly, you can keep your tepid lifeless beer, it fails on every front and should be ashamed to call itself beer!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:37:30 +0000

mmmm Guinness

By: mum

mum — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:25:03 +0000

‘Fraid I’m responsible for your love of Guinness as my doctor recommended it to me when pregnant as an alternative to iron tablets!! ‘Your’ bump was a handy place to rest the pint glass too – ah,these were the good old days before ‘elf and safety!

By: graybo

graybo — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:14:35 +0000

Why is everyone suddenly linking to this five year old article today?

Hmm. Beer. But none of that tar-like gunge. I’m going to have me a proper English beer – warm, flat and with dead rats’ feet floating in it. The best sort.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:45:54 +0000

It IS good for you! I’m sure I’ve got a copy somewhere of a paper based on a double blind, placebo controlled long term study that was done on this very subject. For the life of me I can’t remember which journal published this paper but I definitely remember seeing it somewhere . . . In any case, the over all result was that Guinness is good for you by a significant margin over placebo.

I used to sign up for all sorts of medical studies when I was at the University of Iowa. I remember sitting in a meadow in May, sneezing my head off because I had been given the bloody placebo. We were never offered the Guinness trial though. My luck would be that if it had been offered, I would have had the control arm of the study again.