Good News!
Finally there is some health news us here at Lazy Slob can embrace and take some ownership of being out in front of. A group of researchers out of Spain have discovered that a bottle of wine a day, or a six pints of beer helps keep your heart free from heart disease better than if you didn’t drink at all….by more than 50% in men! That is good news. Here is the bad news for all you youthful potential drunkards looking for a license to start pounding down the vino or ales, the positive effects are only good for men over 40 so sit back and relax. Your time will come. Think of this as something you have to look forward to.

The Backlash
Of course the study is not without its detractors. Many of those charged with keeping the public safe and sober are crying foul, claiming that the study is flawed and does not take into account the numerous other risks associated with drinking that have contributed to millions of deaths. While we begrudgingly agree to those facts, it seems like they just want to rain on our parade! Can’t they just give us our single moment of self-righteousness? Shall we drink to it?

Some Big Numbers
A favorite feature of Lazy Slob, is when we do quick calculations to get our heads around just how impressive these fact can be. We call it Napkin Math. Just to be clear, our figures are not scientific and relate only to the calculations we are doing within the article itself. We are looking at the volume of beer it would take to drink that much every day. Outside of the costs and weight gain, it seems like it would take an awful lot of time to drink this much but who are we to judge.

Napkin Math
Let’s look at the numbers: Six (6) pints a day x 30 days/mo = 22.5 gallons a month or 270 gallons a year. A typical beer keg holds 15.5 gallons so the heavy drinker outlined above goes through over 17 kegs a year. That is a ton of beer…actually, more than a ton. 2,160 pounds to be exact! (Typical gallon = 8lbs) Wow, no wonder it is so hard lose weight and drink like we do.

What to Do?
If this teaches us anything, it is to at least keep drinking. Maybe not at the record pace of the the heart healty, liver-ill subject studies for this project, but at least enough to keep you motor (and ticker going) Let us know your thoughts.