{"id":2294,"date":"2008-10-28T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2008-10-28T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T16:06:37","slug":"is-healthy-beer-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/is-healthy-beer-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Healthy Beer on the Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can beer be engineered into a health food? Could this be <a title=\"healthy beer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9117656\" target=\"_self\">the best news<\/a> in the history of mankind?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/beer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2296 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/beer-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Rice University in Houston are working on a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team at Rice, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer that includes resveratrol, the disease-fighting chemical that\u2019s been found in red wine. Resveratrol is also a natural component of grapes and <a title=\"pomegranate diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/pomegranate-diet\/\" target=\"_self\">pomegranates<\/a><!--more-->.<\/p>\n<p>The plant-produced antibiotic is one of the main reasons behind the mysterious paradox of the health of <a title=\"french don't diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/the-french-dont-diet\/\" target=\"_self\">French people<\/a>; they have a diet rich in cream sauces, cheeses, and all kinds of saturated fats, and they still have lower rates of heart disease than the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The students, most of whom aren&#8217;t even legally of age to sample their creation, are in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can beer be engineered into a health food? Could this be the best news in the history of mankind? Researchers at Rice University in Houston are working on a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/is-healthy-beer-on-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[272,3686,31,273],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-beer","tag-france","tag-health-news","tag-resveratrol"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}