... And we continue our daily boredom series here on Mad Party Conversations.
I realize now how aptly titled this online-rat hole is as of the moment. As I stated in my previous entry, boredom does corner us into the senseless, but now allow me to rephrase that: Boredom corners us into both the interesting and/or senseless.
Examples: looking up famous wise-cracks by famous people ("Cheese -- milk's leap into immortality"), or ambitiously reading some on quantum physics (the Hadron Collider activated today, the Higgs boson among others). I've also delved into taking a look into colossal and giant squids (which are two entirely different species despite the quite synonymous names given them). If anything, the forces of boredom, when channeled properly, help develop one's talent for mimicry of the smarter lot. Haha.
Now, for today, we discuss one boredom-caused topic that has become of great interest to me: the unkown details of Beer.
Most of us are introduced to this beverage generally when we are released from the clutches of our parents into college, and like famished people who have not eaten for days, we devour the thing mindlessly and hurry ourselves into intoxication (maudlin or idiotic laughing, as the case may be). And by that, I do not exclude myself. But you may find the following (and perhaps, all succeeding posts tagged “beer”), a little more interesting than alcohol intake and intoxication.
Yes, beer does have a kingdom all its own (and it is thus that I turn boredom to beerdom), but what first catches the interest of many is the health benefits of a certain beverage deemed dangerous. So we begin with that.
According to various Internet sources, here are only some of the reasons why one should drink beer:
- Beer is a good thinner for the blood. Alcohol balances lipids and reduces the tendency of blood to clot. Simple example would be, it keeps you away from clogged arteries.
- beer is good for the brain. As we age, of course, our abilities deteriorate, but beer slows down this deterioration process in the brain.
- beer contains a chock full of b-vitamins and minerals. Beer contains 150 calories, has no fat (dig that!), no cholesterol, is caffeine free, contains no nitrate, contains 1 gram of protein and 13 grams of carbohydrates, contains significant amounts of magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, and biotin, full of the B vitamins , with impressive amounts of B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxin), and B9 (folate), with smaller amounts of B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B12 inotisol and choline, and beer is 92 percent water.
Of course, you don't get these health benefits if your drinking speed is 1L per second (you idiot). And the “drink moderately” advice can be quite vague, but according to what I've read, one bottle a day should do. Because of this, I will, from this day forth, exert effort in refraining from getting drunk, and as of today, I am openly declaring my loyalty to beer.
Cheers! (clink!)
