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Non-alcoholic Beer Could Protect Against Cancer, Says Early Study
Research using lab mice suggests that non-alcoholic beer may give some protection against cancer, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue. Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi of Japan's Okayama University exposed two groups of mice to carcinogenic chemicals called heterocyclic amines, which can be found in cooked meat and fish. Among mice which had drunk non-alcoholic beer, damage to liver, lung and kidney DNA was 85 percent lower when compared with rodents who had drunk only water. Arimoto-Kobayashi, whose study is published in a specialist organ, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, believes there are as-yet unidentified compounds in lager and stout that prevent amines from bindin... [Cancercompass News: Cancer Nutrition]
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