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Guzzling Beer Helps Rats Stay Cancer-Free
Drinking beer or eating certain components found in the beverage seems to protect against colon cancer in rats, new research shows. Whether this holds true in humans, however, remains to be determined.Read entire article here.
God help me if this is true in people! There will be a keg of beer under one of my counters with a permanant tap comming out of it. Scott is the only person I know that when he comes in from a bike ride, drinks a beer.
MMMmmmm... Beer...
And this is different from a Nacho Supreme combo with a diet coke how???
Posted by: Scott on January 31, 2004 06:00 PMIt's fairly well-known that cancer cells are much weaker than normal cells in the human body, in all respects except reproduction (which they do like wildfire). Chemotherapy relies on this to kill cancerous tumors while merely damaging the healthy cells around them. It's not all that surprising that other things that are merely harmful to healthy cells are deadly to cancer cells, like alcohol.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on January 31, 2004 08:31 PMSo the weaker cancer cells get drunker faster and overdose on alcohol before the healthy cells.
;-)
Wonder how many of those college faternity students that died from alcohol poisoning had cancer?
Don't get me wrong here, I'll have a glass of wine once in a while (may be three or four times a year); but this just sounds like another reason for people to consume too much.
Posted by: Cindy on January 31, 2004 11:09 PMOf course, healthy cells will be weakened by exposure to alcohol, too, and that causes problems that can kill you faster than cancer. You wouldn't have chemotherapy every day to ward off cancer, after all, even though it might be fairly effective.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on February 1, 2004 02:23 AM