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AZ Jim

AZ Jim

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I just had lunch, a small bowl of buttered popcorn and a Miller High Life brew!!
 

I'm having a margarita, which is made with limes, and is therefore practically a health food, or so I was told by my bartender...

No salt though - I'm trying to cut down.

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AZ Jim said:
I just had lunch, a small bowl of buttered popcorn and a Miller High Life brew!!
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I knew you were a health freak Jim, accounts for that sparkle in your eye! :) Doin' all the right things there, butter is good for the brain and beer is good for the bones. I just had some salsa and chips for a snack, but will save my Miller for supper. :cheers:

Now, we learn that beer, particularly beer with high levels of malted barley and hops, is good for our bones!

Osteoporosis affects more than 28 million persons a year, mostly post-menopausal women. But men are not immune to the thinning of bone tissue by any means. Osteoporosis makes bones especially fragile, which is why older persons are very susceptible to bone breakage when they fall.

The news of beer's potential to provide strength to our bones comes from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California (UC) at Davis.

In its study reported in the February 8, 2010 online issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, the researchers report that the content of dietary silicon (Si), important for bone and connective tissue health, in barley retains its high Si content even after the malting process.

Subsequently, the researchers examines 100 commercial beers for silicon content and found those with both high silicon levels and a high level of hops are the richest in silicon. Those beers just happen to be among the most popular small brewery specialties emerging in the U.S. - the India Pale Ales. Pale ales made with barley have more silicon because they are not exposed to the high levels of heat that the darker, more malty, chocolaty beers. Wheat does not contain as much silicon as barley and, for this reason, wheat beers are not a high source of silicon.

The average silicon content of the beers sampled was 6.4 to 56.5 mg/L. I have found that RateBeers.com is a great resource for all kinds of information about beer. Here is a link to the India Pale Ale page, so you can find the most tasty beer for your bone health!
via Science Daily
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AZ Jim said:
I just had lunch, a small bowl of buttered popcorn and a Miller High Life brew!!
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Buttered popcorn= 78 calories

Miller High Life= 143 calories
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Sub Total 221 calories


Not bad, you can finish the 6 pack, take a nap then for dinner have 2 brats (2x210=420 calories) plus a huge hunk of chocolate cake(6 oz=660 calories),

...and that will bring you to 2016 calories for the day. You have room for a nightcap! :woohoo:


PS- that's calories, we're not going to even think of tally for grams of FAT, that will spoil your appetite!
 
You guys are absolutely an inspiration. I decided to follow my semi-healthy lunch (2 cups of orange yogurt) with a 3-Musketeers bar. Hey, the 3 Musketeers were healthy and active, weren't they- jumping all around, trying to stab people? :playful:
 
Shalimar said:
You have a man card? Boy, the things your fiancé never tells you...
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I guess I also won't tell you about the jumbo pepperoni pizza I'm having for dinner, along with the half-gallon of Rocky Road ice cream.

Then for a nightcap, I think I'll have a bottle of Southern Comfort and a pack of Players. In between tokes on my vaporizer. :love_heart:
 
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SifuPhil said:
I guess I also won't tell you about the jumbo pepperoni pizza I'm having for dinner, along with the half-gallon of Rocky Road ice cream.

Then for a nightcap, I think I'll have a bottle of Southern Comfort and a pack of Players. In between tokes on my vaporizer. :love_heart:
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K, I hope EMT's are standing by with a defibrillator etc.:love_heart:
 

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