Disregard aesthetics10 Surprising Health Benefits of Beer
Usually Yahoo articles on fitness or health make me want to chug a liter of bleach. This is a happy exception.
By Lisa Collier Cool
Jan 09, 2012
Beer drinkers rejoice: Your favorite brew may be healthier than you think.
For years, wine drinkers have indulged without guilt, reveling in the news that red wine can help protect against heart disease. Recent research shows that beer can also be good for what ails you, from reducing risk for broken bones to helping warding off diabetes and mental decline. It can even increase longevity, a large study suggests.
However, the key to tapping into beer’s benefits is moderation, meaning just one 12-ounce beer per day for women and two for men. Heavy drinking ups the threat of liver damage, some cancers, and heart problems. Bingeing on brewskis can also make you fat, since a 12-ounce regular beer has about 150 calories, while light beer has about 100.
Here are 10 surprising—and healthy—reasons to cheer about your next beer.
Pure fucking inspiration right there.
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Wish my gym looked like that
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one, and they all stink.
I ran into a friend of mine at the track once. We decided to have a friendly race…one mile.
Starting off, he pulled just ahead of me. I thought I would close the distance and pass him after a short bit, but could never quite do it.
The whole last lap my body was on fire, and I was pushing it as hard as I could. He crossed the line 10 meters ahead of me. He didn’t even look winded, just a dead-set look in his eyes.
Afterwards, I asked him how he ran that fast, and he told me that it is all in the motivation you light in your mind…imagining your own world and blotting out everything else.
So I asked, “What do you imagine?”
He replied, “What do you?”
I told him that to run faster, I like to imagine that I am being chased by a wolf.
He smiles and says, “In my mind, I am the one chasing the wolf.”
That was the day that I started to understand.