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]]> By: unitedcats http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-25 unitedcats Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:04:22 +0000 http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-25 Hey, it's not called "liquid bread" for nothing. Beer and wine were about 5-10% of people's caloric intake in the middle ages and earlier, it was a key method of preserving the harvest. I hadn't heard it it was instrumental to settled civilisation, but it doesn't surprise me. Neat post. Skol! Doug Hey, it’s not called “liquid bread” for nothing. Beer and wine were about 5-10% of people’s caloric intake in the middle ages and earlier, it was a key method of preserving the harvest. I hadn’t heard it it was instrumental to settled civilisation, but it doesn’t surprise me. Neat post.

Skol!
Doug

]]> By: eccentricscientist http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-14 eccentricscientist Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:23:09 +0000 http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-14 There has been some evidence of a causal relationship between diet foods and weight gain (see previous entry "Diet foods - just how diet are they?" http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/diet-foods-just-how-diet-are-they/ linking the re-training of the body that sweet foods have very few calories to overeating of high calorie food at other times. But other studies have shown replacing sugared foods with diet foods does reduce weight gain over time. Though I think you are probably more right with the fries and diet soft drink argument. There has been some evidence of a causal relationship between diet foods and weight gain (see previous entry “Diet foods – just how diet are they?”
http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/diet-foods-just-how-diet-are-they/
linking the re-training of the body that sweet foods have very few calories to overeating of high calorie food at other times. But other studies have shown replacing sugared foods with diet foods does reduce weight gain over time.

Though I think you are probably more right with the fries and diet soft drink argument.

]]> By: Duncan Bayne http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-13 Duncan Bayne Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:09:37 +0000 http://eccentricscientist.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-beer/#comment-13 Absolutely fascinating - I'd heard that there were health benefits to drinking beer in moderation, but that's quite some list. As far as the fact that the beer gut is a myth goes, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the beer gut is actually a "sedentary lifestyle with poor diet that includes some beer" gut. There was a study (there I go again, citing studies I only vaguely remember) published a while back that showed a strong correlation between diet soft drink consumption and obesity. When questioned, the author of the study said she didn't think she'd found a causal relationship between artificial sweeteners and obesity, but that the correlation would best be summed up by the request "I'll have a king-sized whopper-burger combo and a sundae .... errr, and a diet coke, please, I'm trying to lose weight." I guess the beer gut must be a similar phenomenon ... Absolutely fascinating – I’d heard that there were health benefits to drinking beer in moderation, but that’s quite some list.

As far as the fact that the beer gut is a myth goes, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the beer gut is actually a “sedentary lifestyle with poor diet that includes some beer” gut.

There was a study (there I go again, citing studies I only vaguely remember) published a while back that showed a strong correlation between diet soft drink consumption and obesity.

When questioned, the author of the study said she didn’t think she’d found a causal relationship between artificial sweeteners and obesity, but that the correlation would best be summed up by the request “I’ll have a king-sized whopper-burger combo and a sundae …. errr, and a diet coke, please, I’m trying to lose weight.”

I guess the beer gut must be a similar phenomenon …

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