November 2, 2007
Beer is Best After a Workout?
I always thought this might be the case.
A scientific study has shown that beer after a workout helps speed recovery. From the Register here:
Almost exactly a month after we leared that drinking beer makes you clever, a Spanish scientist has proved that the golden grog is also better at rehydrating the human body after exercise.
Manuel J Castillo Garzón, Professor of Human Physiology from Spain’s University of Granada, got a bunch of students to run around in temperatures of 40°C then gave half of them a half-pint of beer while the rest got the same amount of water.
The Spanish prof reckons the bubbles and carbohydrates in beer help quench the thirst and replace lost calories, according to The Telegraph.
And of course, you could just skip the exercising altogether and not have to worry about hydrating at all.