Beer Beer helps your bones says study

beernews — (Davis, CA) – I don’t cover a lot of mainstream stuff, especially beer and health items. Nevertheless, if you take a gander at Google News today, you will find approximately 100 articles in the last 24 hours referencing a new study published in the current issue of Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. The study says that high silicon content in beer is helpful for bone density and it isn’t the first to do so. The Telegraph referenced a study from Spanish researchers in August. Jay Brooks has been a strong proponent of these studies, providing a good summary of the Spain study, pointing to one done last year at Tufts, and another one in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I also found this article from RealBeer printed in 2004 referencing a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. The only thing that bothers me about the new study is that the lead researcher on the project, Charlie Bamforth of UC Davis, has worked in the beer industry for decades and is endowed/funded by Anheuser-Busch. My guess is that a lot of scientific studies carry these sorts of conflicts of interest though and this study seems to validate the many others as mentioned. Beer helps your bones says study[Disclaimer: Beernews.org is a leader in craft beer news and is the original source of this article. If you would like to check out more, please visit the original site. Thanks!]