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Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer
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samzenpus
on Wed Oct 22, 2008 07:15 PM
from the drink-your-way-to-a-better-you dept.
from the drink-your-way-to-a-better-you dept.
CWmike writes "Ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better? Well, think again. A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working on helping Joe Six Pack fight aging and cancer with every swill of beer." Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.
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Baldness (Score:5, Funny)
I think if Star Trek has taught us anything, it's that baldness is one thing that will never be cured.
Re:Baldness (Score:5, Funny)
In Star Trek Appearance doesn't matter. Only disobeying rules at key moments matters.
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Re:Baldness (Score:4, Interesting)
"In the 24th century, they wouldn't care." [mentalfloss.com]
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Re: (Score:3, Funny)
In Star Trek Appearance doesn't matter. Only disobeying rules at key moments matters.
In that case, here's your new red shirt. We were going to give you the blue shirt, but that wouldn't tell the audience that you're about to die. The way team will be beaming down to the dangerous planet immediately.
Re:Baldness (Score:5, Funny)
that's a common misconception. they're actually killed by sudden intense bursts of high-energy gamma rays, which are invisible to the naked eye. the sparks are secondary effects added artificially by the ship's computer system to make the crewmen's deaths look more festive.
this feature was deemed necessary to save doomed crew members from the shame of dying unceremoniously by innocuous-looking console malfunctions. in fact, before the pyrotechnic sparks and digital sound effects were added, many console operators' deaths would go unnoticed for hours, and sometimes even days. often Starfleet captains would unknowingly complete entire missions with a bridge full of dead crewmen sitting at their consoles--this is also why officers are now required to stand at the tactical station.
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Re:Baldness (Score:5, Funny)
Curing baldness would probably be one of the evils that was abandoned after the Eugenics Wars. I'll note that Khan had a full head of hair. It's a slippery slope from Rogaine to genocide.
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Making love in a canoe (Score:5, Insightful)
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They're both fucking close to water.
- the Bruces, Woolloomooloo university
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY [youtube.com]
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Re:Making love in a canoe (Score:4, Funny)
Any drink that becomes more palatable the colder it gets is not worth drinking in the first place. What next -- Bud Numb, with anaesthetics to dull your tastebuds while you desperately try to prove your manliness by downing the foul stuff without vomiting?
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Re:Making love in a canoe (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Making love in a canoe (Score:4, Insightful)
What about a martini?
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I apologize in advance... (Score:4, Funny)
Hence motto, "to baldly go where no one has gone before."
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Guinness already does it... (Score:3, Informative)
Guinness is full of yummy flavonoids which zap oxidants and help protect against cancer.
Re:Guinness already does it... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, the science is still out on 'Zapping' oxidants.
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Re:Guinness already does it... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Guinness already does it... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Guinness already does it... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Guinness already does it... (Score:5, Insightful)
What is this thing with Guinness? The only difference between Guinness and yellow American beer is the color. If you want a good stout there are plenty to choose from. Instead people seem to treat Guinness as some kind of stand-out because it's the only dark-colored beer available in many places. That doesn't make it unique or even particularly good.
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So true (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So true (Score:5, Funny)
Shit! How could I have been so wrong all my life! Thanks for opening my eyes. Nary a drop of that evil black stuff will pass my lips ever again, it's homebrew from here on in.
One question, though, how long does it actually take before I'm a fully fledged member of the "Association Of Home Brewers and Other Tedious Arseholes That Sit At Home On Their Own Smugly Pontificating About How They Know Everything Society"?
Get over yourself.
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Guess what the #2 best-selling beer is in Ireland (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Guess what the #2 best-selling beer is in Irela (Score:5, Informative)
Budweiser
Yeah, Budweiser from Budweis (sometimes called Budvar), not watered horse piss from Anheuser-Busch.
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The problem is, most guys who drink Guinness (Score:3, Insightful)
Rice? (Score:5, Funny)
Beer from Rice University? I hope it doesn't taste like Budweiser.
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
OK, Bud isn't the best tasting beer, but it's always decent. I've had too many skunked bottles of "premium" beers to continue being snobbish about it.
FWIW, my favorite beer of all time is Pete's Wicked Ale. I'll put Guinness, Grolsch and a few others close behind.
Re:Rice? (Score:5, Informative)
The brewer posted the recipe online some time ago (Free as in Beer Speech) so you can always make your own:
All Grain Recipe - Pliny the Elder ::: 1.074/1.012 (6 Gal)
Grain Bill
Hop Schedule
Yeast
Mash/Sparge/Boil
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Re:Rice? (Score:5, Insightful)
Good news: Cancer deaths down. Other news: Liver disease is up, researchers are looking for cause & cure.
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Re:Rice? (Score:5, Funny)
Beer from Rice University? I hope it doesn't taste like Budweiser.
It it's from Rice, that makes it Sake.
(duh!)
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Spinal detachment (Score:5, Funny)
And they added that giving high doses to invertebrates extends their life spans
So if we remove our spines and drink a lot of this miracle beer, we can increase our lifespans? Tell me where to get this beer!
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Re:Spinal detachment (Score:4, Funny)
So it only works on Democrats?
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Alcohol, the cause of and solution to. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Baldness is not a disease! (Score:5, Funny)
Now, cut it out! God made a few good heads. He had to cover the rest with hair.
I liked it, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
In general, the addition of the resveratrol shouldn't affect the taste of the beer, since the chemical is odorless and tasteless, he said.
So, why not adding it to... water? Because that way you wouldn't get in the newspaper, not even a /. mention?
Re:I liked it, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Because they're using yeast to produce resveratrol, beer seems a logical choice of beverage. Besides, I think they're targeting that vast group of Americans who think it's unpatriotic to drink water.
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Re:I liked it, but... (Score:4, Funny)
that completely invalidates our excuse then:
"Honey, Would you put that beer down and go mow the lawn?!"
"Can't sweetie, it's time for my treatment!"
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Wine (Score:3, Interesting)
It's already been shown that certain wines, in moderation, can help prevent certain cancers.
As usual, moderation in everything.
Re:Wine (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Wine (Score:5, Insightful)
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Did anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't diss the bears! (Score:4, Funny)
Do not underestimate the potential of nanobears with regards to their ability to fight diseases like cancer. I for one welcome our microscopic ursine overlords.
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Drink to fight cancer! ? (Score:5, Insightful)
I do think reservatol has huge potential though, I'm sure Ray Kurzweil is already taking it along with his 250 pills a day. I also agree with finding feasible ways to improve the nutrition of existing food products rather than changing the habits of millions of consumers (which requires delivering boot to ass of corporates over their marketing amongst other things).
Yet, why not investigate economic ways to put it in milk or processed grains? Hell why not bundle it along with xylitol and omega 3 in things we eat commonly? We could all but wipe out everything from tooth decay to heart disease, to dementia in one go.
Re:Drink to fight cancer! ? (Score:5, Insightful)
"While I get this is a good way to sneak beneficial nutrients into the diets of people who may otherwise have no interest nor motivation in seeking them,"
Except a bunch of ignorant fear mongers will scream about it killing us, even though there is years of data spreading over millions of drinkers.
see Fluoridated water.
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It's only resveratrol (Score:3, Interesting)
But resveratrol-producing yeast? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sounds like......... (Score:3, Interesting)
Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is branching out her empire into the realm of pharamaceuticals.
pish posh (Score:5, Insightful)
The "French paradox" isn't one. The French are healthier because 1) they exercise; and 2) they only eat their famous meals on occasion. Generally, they eat "peasant food"; potatoes, bread, stews, &c. But of course that would be too difficult; no, it must be the wine. Drink, drink, drink! It's good for you!
Here's a hint: the French drink wine because they enjoy it. When I drink beer, it's because I enjoy it. I probably won't enjoy this genetically-engineered "good for you" beer as much, so the whole idea is a non-starter. I could always just eat a pomegranate, and then drink a good beer. And for those who don't like pomegranates, we can just synthesize this "resveratol" and put it in multivitamins right?
Clinical Trials (Score:5, Funny)
Where do we apply for clinical trials?!
Aikon-
The future (Score:4, Insightful)
I for one welcome this new synthesis between vice and medicine. What about strippers who can cure STDs and gambling to cure dyslexia?
Slashdot Community Effort (Score:4, Insightful)
Resveratrol is not produced during fermentation (Score:4, Insightful)