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" Heavy on carbs and sugar content, beer has long been plagued with a bad rep when it comes to health and weight gain. I mean, there&amp;#039;s a reason we call it\u00A0the dreaded\u00A0&amp;quot;beer belly.&amp;quot; Yet new evidence could soon lead us to believe the complete opposite. According to a study published in the journal\u00A0Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, beer contains one compound that could actually help suds drinkers lose weight. Researchers at Oregon State University looked specifically at the\u00A0effects of xanthohumol, a natural flavonoid found in hops. Their results, based on lab tests on mice, show that higher\u00A0levels of xanthohumol\u00A0&amp;quot;significantly improved some of the underlying markers of metabolic syndrome in laboratory animals and also reduced weight gain,&amp;quot;\u00A0lead author Cristobal Miranda wrote. In the study,\u00A0Miranda goes on to\u00A0explain\u00A0that metabolic syndrome is a set\u00A0of risk factors that raise your chances of heart disease and other health problems; however,\u00A0xanthohumol could\u00A0significantly lower the\u00A0risk for these issues, according to the\u00A0results.\u00A0 The Telegraph reports that\u00A0mice who were fed the most xanthohumol cut their bad low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by 80pc and\u00A0their insulin levels decreased by\u00A042 percent.\u00A0&amp;quot;This is the first time we&amp;#039;ve seen one compound with the potential to address so many health problems,&amp;quot;\u00A0Miranda told the news site. &amp;quot;These were very dramatic improvements.&amp;quot;  But before you take this as a reason to pick up a 30-rack on your way home, note that much more research must be done first. Miranda stresses that we cannot assume the same benefits could be safely achieved with humans\u2014especially when the mice were given 60mg of the compound for every kilogram of body weight daily, which would be the same as one of us\u00A0drinking 3,500 pints of beer every day. Darn.\u00A0 Follow Delish on Instagram. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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