We all knew it!!! But it´s good to hear it from the "experts"...
Here´s an article I found in a Spanish newspaper today. Sorry for the translation, it´s rather "Spickglish" but I´m sure you´ll get the main message.
Cheers!
The moderate ingestion of beer after the physical exercise favors the rehydration of sportsmen, without harming its psicocognitivas capacities, according to recent investigations by nutricionists. During the course of a three day seminar in Granada, southern Spain, experts recommended to include this drink in the daily diet of the athletes.
The conclusions of these scientific studies were exposed today within the framework of the symposium "Beer, Sport and Health" in the Medicine Faculty of the University of Granada, where it was alluded to to the antirust properties of this drink that, as well, is favorable for the cardiovascular system. In press conference, the cardiologist and ex- base of the Spanish selection of basketball and Real Madrid Juan Antonio Corbalán assured that the beer has "an excellent" profile to obtain an effective hidratación of the organism after the physical exercise. Corbalán emphasized that the low alcoholic content of this drink is "absolutely compatible" with the sport yield of high level, "whenever it considers that the amount of ingested beer is adapted to the capacity to metabolizar the alcohol" and alluded to the necessity to eliminate certain taboos with respect to the barley juice, "the first drink for the sportsman after the water", affirmed. The university professor of Medical Physiology of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Granada Manuel Garzón Castle indicated that, according to its investigations, the moderate ingestion of beer does not make worse the psicocognitivas capacities of the sportsmen, since does not cause the loss of field of vision, nor implies a greater number of errors. He added that its consumption increases the tolerance to the physical effort and reduces the stress that supposes to make exercise in extreme conditions. In order to reach these conclusions, Garzón evaluated the cognitivas and locomotive capacities of a group of young people who of random form drank beer or water after making sport in a room to 40 degrees of temperature, situation that favored the dehydration. The expert before analyzed the capacities of the young people and one hour and average after the exercise, for which Vienan T used System - used to measure the reaction of the pilots of airplanes it hunts to certain stimuli -, an experiment that has allowed him to guarantee the benefits of the moderate consumption of beer for the sportsmen.
