Infographic: Basics of Beer
Beer is a fermented beverage with a relatively low (or no) alcohol percentage, whose natural ingredients contain small amounts of valuable nutrients, minerals and vitamins.
Explanimation: Beer and nutrients
Beer is typically a low strength, fermented alcoholic beverage. It is made from a common pallet of ingredients, rooted in nature.
Explanimation: Beer and cardiovascular health
The best way to look after your heart is to follow a healthy diet and lifestyle. For healthy adults, moderate beer consumption can be part of this balanced way of living.
Infographic: Type 2 Diabetes
Moderate beer consumption can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Booklet: Beer and Health – Moderate Consumption as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle
Beer has been a staple part of European diets for thousands of years, and through the ages it has become deeply ingrained in our traditions and culture.
9th European Beer and Health Symposium
24th September 2019, Brussels
Do you want to find out and discuss the latest insights regarding the health effects of moderate alcohol/beer consumption? Registration for the 9th European Beer and Health Symposium is now open! The symposium will take place on Tuesday the 24th of September 2019 in the heart of Brussels.
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FENS 2019: Beer in moderation can fit in a balanced lifestyle
Scientists, gathered at the 13th European Nutrition Conference in Dublin, stressed the current scientific state-of-play suggests moderate beer consumption can fit with a balanced diet as it provides small amounts of nutrients, does not seem to contribute to weight increase and can also be associated with decreased risk of mortality and morbidity.
Beer & Health at the 13th European Nutrition Conference!
The 13th European Nutrition Conference will feature a session on the role of moderate beer consumption in a healthy diet.
The Beer and Health Symposium’s presentations are now available!
The presentations of the speakers of the 9th European Beer and Health Symposium, held in Brussels on the 24th of September 2019, are now available online! This includes the presentations from Dr Patrycia Kupnicka, Prof. Alexander Jäger, Dr. Henk Hendriks, Dr. Simona...
The Beer and Health Symposium’s Posters available!
The 6 posters that were presented during the 9th European Beer and Health Symposium, on the 24th of September 2019 in Brussels, are now available online! This also includes the poster of Dr Emilia Ruggiero, from IRCCS Nuromed, Italy, entitled: “Moderate alcohol...
Beer in moderation can fit in a balanced lifestyle
At the 9th European Beer and Health Symposium, European and international researchers presented the latest scientific understanding of the link between moderate beer consumption and health, which has reinforced that moderate consumption of beer by healthy adults can be part of a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Nutrients in Beer, an explanimation
Beer and Health presents the explanimation Beer and Nutrients which explains you in 90 seconds what nutrients can be found in beer, where they come from and how it fits in a healthy diet.
Beer and Health - Moderate Consumption as part of a healthy lifestyle – 5th edition
Beer and Health Moderate Consumption as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle 5th Edition 2016 Click here to download the publication.
Basics on beer and health
This booklet summarises the relevant scientific literature on moderate beer consumption in relation to health, but there are some aspects you have to take into consideration while reading it. Click here to access the content
Beer and Health: Making up the Balance
Beer is made from natural ingredients and has relatively low (or zero) alcohol content compared to most other alcoholic beverages. read more …
About Beer and Health
Beer and Health gathers and presents the latest scientific research on the link between moderate beer consumption and health. And it builds upon a long tradition of experts coming together at the European Beer and Health Symposium, which has been organised practically every two or three years since 1999.
