Useful properties of beer

So it was believed that beer helps to increase appetite, accelerate growth and physical development, strengthen the overall health. Once, as some websites say, it was even given to babies. In medieval Europe, healers tried to treat beer with various diseases. It was taken as a medicine for exhaustion of the body, kidney diseases and, in general, the urinary system. They believed that it could help normalize sleep, eliminate bronchial asthma, and solve skin problems. But do you really know the useful properties of beer, you will learn from today's article.

When cholera raged in the world, beer was drunk as the main preventive agent. By the way, the anti-cholera properties of beer were subsequently confirmed by scientific facts. The microbiologist, the German Robert Koch, the discoverer of tubercle bacilli, developed experiments with cholera vibrios, in which they died under the influence of beer.

Beneficial features.

Today, practitioners also believe that beer has some positive abilities. But at the same time they specify that the current beer to taste, composition, color and impact on the human body is completely different from the product that was drunk in the Middle Ages and during the Ancient World.

What do physicians and representatives of the food industry say about today's drink?

1. In beer, which we drink today, there is a lot of potassium and little sodium. It can be drunk only in moderation to those who are forced to limit themselves in salt consumption because of hypertension.
2. Beer does not differ from simple orange juice in its content of elements of zinc, copper, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium. But a glass of orange juice is considered a kind of symbol that embodies a healthy lifestyle.
3. Beer contains a large number of vitamins B2 and B1. It contains vitamins in the form that is easily absorbed by the body. A liter of beer can provide up to 60 percent of the body's needs for vitamin B1 (thiamine) and B2 (riboflavin).
4. In beer, enough ascorbic acid is added to prevent premature oxidation. In the same liter of beer contains almost 70% of the daily intake of this vitamin. To satisfy the daily requirement for folic and nicotinic acids, you need to drink only half a glass of beer.
5. The composition of beer includes citric acid. It activates the urine, which helps prevent the formation of stones in the kidneys and ducts.
6. The most valuable components of beer are phenolic compounds. They have a warning effect on the formation of thrombosis, normalize the exchange of lipids. And this means that, thus, we are protected from strokes and heart attacks.
7. The beer contains carbon dioxide. It stimulates the secretion of the stomach, blood flow in the kidneys, lungs, liver and muscles. Carbon dioxide keeps from premature intoxication, not allowing you to drink beer quickly.
8. The important ability of extractive substances of hops is in soothing and hypnotic action. They also have a bactericidal property.

Harmful properties.

1. Beer, to all its useful properties, gives a heavy load to the vessels and the heart, which, due to the addiction to its frequent use, works in an emergency mode, overexerting. The size of the heart thus increases, and the "beer" heart can develop, as it is often called. In the environment of roentgenology, this phenomenon was called "kapron stocking." It is characterized by flabbiness of the heart, this organ becomes "saggy". It is hard for the heart to do its work. In the body, as everyone knows, everything is interconnected, therefore not only the heart and blood vessels suffer, the burden also falls on other organs.
2. Male organism after a couple of beers of beer secrete a substance that suppresses the generation of the sex hormone, which is considered the main for the male body, testosterone. As a result, female sex hormones begin to form. Hops are also a supplier of plant analogues of female hormones - phytoestrogens. If this state of affairs continues for a long time, then men swelling of the mammary glands and an extension of the pelvis. And women, if they start to abuse beer, can get breast cancer.
3. There is an opinion that beer can increase lactation, but this is nothing more than a simple myth. And it arose when they used home-produced beer with a weak level of alcohol, which was somewhat reminiscent of kvass. If a young mother, nursing her baby with her milk, starts drinking modern factory beer, it can seriously disrupt the health of the child.
4. We, being inexperienced consumers of beer, consider it a high-calorie product, but this is not so, it has fewer calories than, for example, in milk, factory soda or juice. The only thing, beer raises appetite, and we eat more than we need. Apparently, this is what caused the beer to be classified as "winter" beverages. And lovers of beer drink from time immemorial were overweight.
5. There are still properties of a soothing action, but you can look at it from the other side. Man eventually gets used to this way to relax and can not imagine rest without a bottle of beer.

And how many beers to drink?

Probably, the reader is completely at a loss and thinks: should I drink it at all or not drink, and if I drink, how much? What dose of beer is considered safe by doctors?

And, most likely, the reader will be delighted to learn that you can still drink beer. Only a measure - above all! Only 1 liter of this drink, with a strength of 3 to 5% alcohol, will bring about 40 grams of ethanol into the blood. This is the maximum of alcoholic products, which does not damage health. Therefore, if we are not talking about the maximum, but about the average rate, it is better to limit ourselves to a bottle (0, 5 liters) of beer, and then not every day! All these calculations are nonsense, when it comes to strong beer (with an alcohol content of up to 12%). The use of such a beer in the above amounts may bring unpleasant toxic effects.