Drinking beer prevent osteoporosis

Drink about half a liter of beer a day may prevent osteoporosis, it even works to prevent bone loss is better than both calcium, the scientists said.

In a study conducted over 3 million people in the UK is osteoporosis, the scientists discovered substances England ethanol in beer can prevent the hormone leads to bone loss.

They were tracking a group of healthy volunteers are aged from 18 to 50.

Once these people to drink some beer types with an average dose of about 0,433 a liter, they discovered during the approximately 6 hours, of ethanol in beer has prevented many types of hormone leads to weak bones do more.

Osteoporosis is a disease makes bones weak and easily broken. It usually affects the entire bone people, but most is caused fractures in the wrist, spine and hipbone.

Professor Jonathan Powell, chief research group, said: "This is detected very interesting. Everyone knows that calcium to prevent bone loss but we detect ethanol in beer also has a similar effect, is even better ".

"Of course, the key is an important, and we know that drinking too much beer can bring the negative impact", says professor Powell added.