So, who came up with this study? www.Foxnews.com/../your-favorite-beer-might-be-gi..
Fox News reports "Hoppy beer causes man boobs"
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BowAholic
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FTFA:
"Men who drink lot of hoppy beer, like a strong India Pale Ale, may see some unwanted effects, like man boobs, premature aging, sluggishness, tooth decay, hair loss and a beer belly."
"Men who drink lot of hoppy beer, like a strong India Pale Ale, may see some unwanted effects, like man boobs, premature aging, sluggishness, tooth decay, hair loss and a beer belly."
vwmasstransit
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Huh. Sounds like someone dosent like IPA's and wants to make them go away, OR, someone dosent like craft beer and wants to see sales decline.
Brettomomyces
LHBS Curmudgeon
Excess calories and aging are a much better explanation for acquiring man boobs from drinking a lot of beer.
The phytoestrogens found in hops have a very low bioavailability...I wouldn't worry about it
The phytoestrogens found in hops have a very low bioavailability...I wouldn't worry about it
I am greatly relieved that phytoestrogens in hops have a very low bioavailability. Now, what exactly does that mean again????
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
Look, my pecs are as defined as my abnormally round abs. Get off my ass.
Agree. Looks more like a correlation than a causation.
Murphys_Law
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I just had a gnat land in my Plliney clone. I'm going to let him float around a little longer and see if the whole boob thing transcends species.
jakenbacon
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It's Fox news.... Who takes them seriously in the first place?
AndytheBeave
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Fox news: And now a word from our sponsor - "we make beer the hard way and it's beechwood aged...."
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Men who drink lot of hoppy beer, like a strong India Pale Ale, may see some unwanted effects, like man boobs, premature aging, sluggishness, tooth decay, hair loss and a beer belly.
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So if I didn't drink hoppy beer I'd be:
thin
have my hair back
have fewer cavities
and be spy
I thought man boobs came from drinking a lot of beer and becoming overweight.
Silly me.
Now I can go back to using gruit and drink a six pack a day and not get man boobs.
I'll be brewing every week - woohoo!
All kidding aside, here is a scientific rebuttal
http://www.brauweltinternational.com/pdf/BRAUWELTInternational_1_2004_hopsteiner.pdf
Men who drink lot of hoppy beer, like a strong India Pale Ale, may see some unwanted effects, like man boobs, premature aging, sluggishness, tooth decay, hair loss and a beer belly.
<<------------------------------
So if I didn't drink hoppy beer I'd be:
thin
have my hair back
have fewer cavities
and be spy
I thought man boobs came from drinking a lot of beer and becoming overweight.
Silly me.
Now I can go back to using gruit and drink a six pack a day and not get man boobs.
I'll be brewing every week - woohoo!
All kidding aside, here is a scientific rebuttal
http://www.brauweltinternational.com/pdf/BRAUWELTInternational_1_2004_hopsteiner.pdf
bobeer
Fermentation Specalist
This comes up every so often and everyone freaks out. You'd have to drink a TON of ipa to grow man boobs.
I've been drinking IPA's for a very long time, and at times in excess, and I have no man boobs. I don't really workout very often or eat super healthy all the time. Just a regular average guy here with no man boobs.
All I had to see was "Fox News" haha. What a joke of a news network.
I've been drinking IPA's for a very long time, and at times in excess, and I have no man boobs. I don't really workout very often or eat super healthy all the time. Just a regular average guy here with no man boobs.
All I had to see was "Fox News" haha. What a joke of a news network.
agrazela
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Quoted from that article:
It can be concluded from these investigations
that the estrogenic activity of hops,
from an objective point of view, does not
support any reservations about negative
effects on beer. Reports such as on feminisation
of beer drinkers cannot be proven
scientifically.
that the estrogenic activity of hops,
from an objective point of view, does not
support any reservations about negative
effects on beer. Reports such as on feminisation
of beer drinkers cannot be proven
scientifically.
That's really too bad. No longer can I tell my wife, "I need to drink more beer to better get in touch with my feelings."
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AndytheBeave
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If I had manboobs, I'd never leave the house. Bring on the hops!!
I didn't realize it was a Fox News study. I thought they were just reporting on it.
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
My guesses would be...
1) Someone--probably a healthy/"all-natural" food nut--read half of a study and jumped to conclusions. Fox saw the sensational headline and ran with it, because **** fact-checking.
or
2) Fox has some powerful sponsors *cough* who would like to see people consuming less hoppy beer.
1) Someone--probably a healthy/"all-natural" food nut--read half of a study and jumped to conclusions. Fox saw the sensational headline and ran with it, because **** fact-checking.
or
2) Fox has some powerful sponsors *cough* who would like to see people consuming less hoppy beer.
AndytheBeave
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and why would they report such erroneous information?
See my post above above about sponsors...
It is a sad era for mainline media. In fact I would say it is a sad era for all media - especially in the age of communication/information/technology that we live in now.
Hardly anything can be trusted, and media corporations are directed almost exclusively by political agenda and advertising revenue. /removetinfoilhat
I don't think that's even tin foil hat theory anymore. It's pretty much fact.
Watch two channels (FOX & MSNBC) and see the two conflicting viewpoints of the same exact story. Both will show some facts, but neglect others to fit whatever side they are on. It's also rare to see them report negatively on a sponsor and/or major contributor. Definitely a huge bias in the news, so I make sure to use multiple sources before I make any decision.
Hoppy beer causes man boobs? Sounds like something my youngest son would say if he didn't like something or was mad. "Yea, well... Lego's cause cancer!".
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
It's not the man-boobs I would be concerned about. I'm not ready for 'brewers droop' and don't want to have to pay for a blue pill.
I'm a mega hoppy beer drinker and so far, so good.
I'm a mega hoppy beer drinker and so far, so good.
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