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 Drinking beer could help prevent weak bones | Life and style | The Guardian:

"The experts said beer was a major source of dietary silicon

– roughly half of the silicon in beer can be readily absorbed by the body.

Charles Bamforth, lead author of the study, said:

'Beers containing high levels of malted barley and hops

  are richest in silicon." 

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as anecdotal proof we submit the picture.

JR, as he is known in the Blogoshere
is a travel-seasoned  young man who
 hails from Great Britain. he is somewhat of

a Cerveza Connoisseur, who can speak
Beer in one-hundred-and-seventy-two
 languages.

as evidenced by his hand, as he expertly
 shifts gears on his Mini-Cooper,
osteoporosis is nary on the horizon.

raise one for JR!

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.ero


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