Re: The ADA bravely tackles acute American male beer drinking deficiency

[Guest guest]

Remind that the health benefits are only " potential "

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/alcohol-\

full-story/index.html

From Harvard Public School of Health

" Problem drinking also touches drinkers' families, friends, and

communities. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and

Alcoholism and others:

* 18.2 million Americans meet standard criteria for alcohol abuse or

alcoholism.

* Alcohol plays a role in one in three cases of violent crime.

* More than 16,000 people die each year in automobile accidents in

which alcohol is involved.

* Alcohol abuse costs more than $185 billion dollars a year. "

" The benefits and risks of moderate drinking change over a lifetime. In

general, risks exceed benefits until middle age, when cardiovascular

disease begins to account for an increasingly large share of the burden

of disease and death.

* For a pregnant woman and her unborn child, a recovering alcoholic,

a person with liver disease, and people taking one or more medications

that interact with alcohol, moderate drinking offers little benefit and

substantial risks.

* For a 30-year-old man, the increased risk of alcohol-related

accidents outweighs the possible heart-related benefits of moderate

alcohol consumption.

* For a 60-year-old man, a drink a day may offer protection against

heart disease that is likely to outweigh potential harm (assuming he

isn't prone to alcoholism).

* For a 60-year-old woman, the benefit/risk calculations are

trickier. Ten times more women die each year from heart disease

(460,000) than from breast cancer (41,000). However, studies show that

women are far more afraid of developing breast cancer than heart

disease, something that must be factored into the equation. "

" Given the complexity of alcohol's effects on the body and the

complexity of the people who drink it, blanket recommendations about

alcohol are out of the question. Because each of us has unique personal

and family histories, alcohol offers each person a different spectrum

of benefits and risks. Whether or not to drink alcohol, especially for

" medicinal purposes, " requires careful balancing of these benefits and

risks. "

" If you don't drink, there's no need to start. You can get similar

benefits with exercise (beginning to exercise if you don't already or

boosting the intensity and duration of your activity) or healthier

eating. "

I can say that portuguese nutritionists look to ADA as an association

with credibility, in the last years ADA has been doing a pretty good job

in decreasing that credibility.

" A 12 ounce (340g) bottle of lager sports 0.75 grams of fiber while the

same amount of dark beer boasts 1.3 grams.! " <- since when that is a

great amount of fiber? 100g of apple give 1.9g of fiber.

" According to an article in the Winter 2011 issue of ADA Times, that

brewski could reduce your risk of developing kidney stones. Researchers

found that beer lowered the risk of kidney stones in men compared to

other alcoholic beverages, possibly due to its high water content and

diuretic effect. " You can drink water instead of bear. Besides beer

increases hepatic uric acid production not only by the amount of alcohol

it has but also because of the purin content.

I'm not going through all miss information that is in that page, it

makes me wonder the professional qualifications of Ansel or for

how much her opinion was bought.

" It's Perfectly Packaged "

I don't know if I should be crying or laughing to see this kind of

commercial adversing coming from an health professional and health

professional association...

Catia Borges

>

> From the blog " Weighty Matters " :

>

LINK<http://www.weightymatters.ca/2011/06/ada-wants-men-tohave-brewski-h\

elp-your.html>

> Yup, the American Dietetic Association wants me to drink, to " Have a

> Brewski, Help my Health! " .

>

> Of course so does the Harvard School of Public

>

Health<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/a\

lcohol-full-story/index.html>,

> but unlike the ADA, they don't try to appeal to my inner College

student to

> sell me on it.

>

> Harvard's take on alcohol is a sober (pun intended) reflection on the

heart

> benefits of alcohol vs. the real risks of problem drinking.

>

> The ADA?

>

> Aside from the cardiovascular benefits, apparently my

inspired-by-the-ADA,

> nightly, beer drinking, is going to:

>

> " be kind to my kidneys " ,

>

> " is a surprising source of fiber " ,

>

> " is rich in B-Vitamins " ,

>

> and will,

>

> " strengthen my skeleton " .

>

> According to the ADA's president elect Ethan A. Bergman, PhD, RD, CD,

FADA,

> an ice-cold " *brewski* " is,

>

> " the perfect way to relax at the end of the day "

>

> Really ADA? Of all the healthy foods and beverages out there, the one

you

> think should headline your new Men's Health page is beer? That's the

> super-food American men aren't getting enough of?

>

> And what about the 15lbs a year that a beer a night could land you?

Well

> don't you worry, the ADA has you covered there as also prominently

featured

> on their new men's health page are articles like,

>

> " Grill Your Way to a Six Pack "

>

> and,

>

> " Want to Get Lean? Eat Fat! "

>

> Awesome!

>

> Pretty soon all American men will look exactly like the guy in the

photo up

> above - grilling our way to six packs, eating sausages and drinking

kidney

> happy, bone strengthening, B-vitamin and fiber filled beer every night

to

> relax!

>

> Now I enjoy a BBQ and a cold beer as much (or more) than the next guy,

but

> ADA, did you really think that just because you've got the words

" men's

> health " on your new men's health page

<http://www.eatright.org/menshealth/>,

> that you had to come at men with the same sort of brilliance as Men's

Health

> (the magazine)? No higher standards here.

>

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