May 5, 2009

Beer can be life extending

At last the news that drinkers have been waiting for, drinking beer can add around two and half year onto the end of your life, but those fancy wine drinkers have got it made for a mere half a glass of wine a day will add five year to your life.

This comes from Dutch research that has taken place over four years and involving just under fourteen hundred men, who kept note of their drinking and eating habits. The results of which are quite fascinating.

It turns out that those who took just twenty grams of alcohol a day found that their life expectancy had increased by two and half years by the time that they had reached fifty, compared to those test subjects who did not drink at all.

Source [Bloomberg]