The beer belly myth
• Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Beer News
Someone should give Martin Bobak a medal of honor.* The University College of London researcher recently published a study based on an experiment with 28,594 middle-aged Eastern Europeans. The results:
“Men and women who drank primarily beer were no more likely to have big bellies than those who drank wine or spirits.”
Essentially, what Bobak’s research boils down to is that it doesn’t matter what you drink, rather it matters how much you drink. So drink beer in moderation and you’re not more likely to have an immense gut than the wine drinker next to you.
For your own safety, promise us you’ll never Google image search “beer belly.” The results aren’t pretty.
(* Since we can’t give Bobak a medal, we’ll buy him a beer.)
