17 beers and four large pizzas a day keeps the prostate canc...

Sean Martin

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Beer ingredient may fight prostate cancer

PORTLAND, Ore. - For many men, a finding by Oregon researchers sounds too good to be true: an ingredient in beer seems to help prevent prostate cancer, at least in lab experiments. The trouble is you'd theoretically have to drink about 17 beers a day for any potential benefit. And no one's advising that.

Researchers at Oregon State University say that the compound xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a protein in the cells along the surface of the prostate gland. The protein acts like a switch that turns on a variety cancers, including prostate cancer.

Dr. Richard N. Atkins, CEO of the National Prostate Cancer Coalition, said the experiments are encouraging and "perhaps men could take it in pill form someday."

He noted an ingredient in tomatoes, lycopene, has previously been linked to prostate cancer prevention.

"It's every man's dream to hear that beer and pizza can prevent cancer," he said. "However, the 17 beers and four large pizzas needed to get enough xanthohumol and lycopene to help prevent prostate cancer is unfortunately not advised."

Atkins noted that drinking 17 beers a day can lead to alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver, and overdoing it on pizza can lead to obesity and other health problems.

"Food, no matter how helpful it may be, is not a full preventive for prostate cancer," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_on_fe_st/beer_prostate

http://www.vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=893964&postcount=9
Doppelhaken, Draco, Richard H, ToddinFl, Augustus Sutter, Chain, Subrosa, Jarl, White Will, whose next?

Posted : 12/06/2006 7:18 pm

JoeSixPack

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The trouble is you'd theoretically have to drink about 17 beers a day for any potential benefit.

Only 17? I can drink twice that many in one day...
I'm never gonna get prostate cancer! :cheers:

(oh, and Doc, good job for actually putting in a link to the article... )

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Posted : 12/06/2006 7:39 pm

Sean Martin

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I put links to all or at least most of my articles. Otherwise what is the point?

Whites won’t take the word of other whites these days.

(oh, and Doc, good job for actually putting in a link to the article... ]

http://www.vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=893964&postcount=9
Doppelhaken, Draco, Richard H, ToddinFl, Augustus Sutter, Chain, Subrosa, Jarl, White Will, whose next?

Posted : 12/06/2006 8:10 pm

JoeSixPack

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I put links to all or at least most of my articles. Otherwise what is the point?

Whites won’t take the word of other whites these days.

I really don't want to turn this into a shit-fest, so... :rolleyes:

Anyway, I just started on my second 12-pack! Number 17 is comin' up!

Hopefully the pizzas will be done soon, cause I'm starving. :cheers:

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
-US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

Posted : 12/06/2006 8:31 pm

kywhiskeyrebel

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Got a coupla pizzas on the way & a case of beer since I'm off work tomorrow. Now, if I can just make it to my 9:00 am math class. :cheers:

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Posted : 12/06/2006 9:07 pm

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