Worst news ever....non-alcoholic beer good for you

[pk_du]

Non-alcoholic beer may protect against cancer
AFP
January 20, 2005
RESEARCH using lab mice suggests that non-alcoholic beer may give some protection against cancer, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.

Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi of Japan's Okayama University exposed two groups of mice to carcinogenic chemicals called heterocyclic amines, which can be found in cooked meat and fish.

Among mice which had drunk non-alcoholic beer, damage to liver, lung and kidney DNA was 85 per cent lower when compared with rodents who had drunk only water.

Arimoto-Kobayashi, whose study is published in a specialist organ, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, believes there are as-yet unidentified compounds in lager and stout that prevent amines from binding to cells and damaging them.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11995313%255E23289,00.html

[imenja]

1. did they test real beer?

Wouldn't it be just as healthy, perhaps more so? Remember what the Irish say: Guinness is good food.