OK, maybe drinking beer every day is a bit of a risk – you’ve got to be responsible with your alcohol consumption, people. That said, the Center for Beer Studies, Health and Nutrition believe that drinking a beer at home everyday could help increase good cholesterol.

Dr. Corina Zugravu was asked about why the CBSHN claim this, and she said that research they have conducted lends credibility to their claims. We don’t know if we agree, but Dr. Zugravu does mention some pretty interesting facts about beer.

According to a study done by Hebrew University in Israel, people who consume moderate amounts of beer, have a lower incidence of heart attack and other heart ailments. That is because moderate beer drinking helps stimulate good cholesterol production (cholesterol HDL), which reduces the risk of arterial sickness. Good cholesterol acts as a vacuum cleaner for excess cholesterol, while the bad kind sticks to the walls of the blood vessels.

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