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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHalcohol and body 01/10/2008 BEER AND CANCER 
It’s an established fact - owing, among other things to the work of Ghent professor Denis De Keukeleire - that beer (thanks to the hop) contains bioactive xanthohumol, a molecule the vigorous anti-oxidant effect of which is regarded as being instrumental as a retardant of the development of cancerous tumours. Sad to relate, the xanthohumol content of beer is very low (from 0.01 to 0.20 mg per litre). That means that you would have to down 60 glasses of beer a day to procure any halfway-useful effect.Hence the German scientists’ plan, to brew a beer with high concentration of xanthohumol. If the plan went to plan, then the beer would be more than a welcome thirst-quencher, but it would also be a way of preventing cancer. So much for the good news about beer and about cancer. Now the bad news: drinking beer is believed to trigger premature cancer of the pancreas. Dr. Michelle Anderson from the University of Michigan (USA) carried out research on the drinking and smoking patterns of 453 patients with cancer of the pancreas. This particular form of cancer sets in at around 70 to 80 years of age. Among habitual heavy drinkers, that is to say, drinkers drinking more than three units a day, the onset is around ten years later than average. According to Anderson the effect is most noticable for beer. However, the difference between the drinkers and the non-drinkers fades when account is taken of other possible variables that may be included among the causes of pancreatic cancer. MedicineNet.com, 20.09.08; KABC-TV Los Angeles, 06/12/07 | |
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