Alcohol linked to lower risk of arthritis

[Sweetpea]

For the first time, scientists have discovered that drinking alcohol frequently may reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, a painful progressive disease of the joints that affects people of all ages.


A team from Sheffield University found people with the condition who said they drank alcohol on more than ten days in the last month showed less damage to their joints, less inflammation, less pain, swelling and disability than those who never drank alcohol.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...arthritis.html



See! Medicinal, always said that's why I like a drink................ehemm!

[von Spreuth]

HAH! They will not believe me when I tell them the BEST thing I can do to get rid of a gout attack is to drink 3 to 5 liters of beer!

GERMAN/Dutch/Danish beer, NOT British, and PARTICULARLY not Irish or Belgian. They DO bring on and INCREASE gout.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by von Spreuth

HAH! They will not believe me when I tell them the BEST thing I can do to get rid of a gout attack is to drink 3 to 5 liters of beer!

GERMAN/Dutch/Danish beer, NOT British, and PARTICULARLY not Irish or Belgian. They DO bring on and INCREASE gout.

Von, you brew at home ?

Recently I've had a change of taste & stopped drinking sprits & gone on to stout.....

[spuggie j]

Originally Posted by terrywit

Von, you brew at home ?

Recently I've had a change of taste & stopped drinking sprits & gone on to stout.....

Stout oh boy you are in a bad way. Is it milk stout?

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by spuggie j

Stout oh boy you are in a bad way. Is it milk stout?

I think my nan drinks mackeson's, murphys or guinness for me.....

[spuggie j]

Originally Posted by terrywit

I think my nan drinks mackeson's, murphys or guinness for me.....

Loved the guinness in Ireland but hated it over here. I must be weird.

[von Spreuth]

Originally Posted by terrywit

Von, you brew at home ?

Recently I've had a change of taste & stopped drinking sprits & gone on to stout.....

Aye. I have 500 Liters "on the go" in the cellar, and another 200 nearly ready for bottling.

Stout of ANY kind, I can not THINK opf thouching!!

Although I used to LOVE the Mackesons. I did not know they still made it?

The local Sport and Social club used to have that AND Newky Brown ON DRAUGHT!

[spuggie j]

The last time I got involved with home brew a pint and a half had me falling all over the place. Anything above 1 1/2 pint and you got ammnesia big time but funny no sore head. But would it reduce arthritis never found out. Should have come with a health warning.

[von Spreuth]

Home brew depends on all kinds of factors.

For example, I sometimes make a home brew cider, but instead of using 2 kilo sugar, I use 20 kilo honey, and leave the bottles for two or three YEARS, not months.

That has a strength a bit more than an "Offy" wodka. So about 70 to 80%.

The main problem here is, you can not buy the brew kits. You have to go "from scratch". Even to, on occasion, picking your own hops.

Wines are O.K to make as well. But I am not really a wine drinker.

[Patman Post]

Wouldn't you have to distill it to get that sort of abv level?