As though we all needed another reason to guzzle a delicious lager after work… However- recent studies  show that drinking beer can actually strengthen your bones. Dietary silicon, a product found in both hops and barley, is known to help strengthen your bones, similar to calcium. However, scientists were always unsure if any of this product actually made it through the brewing process.

Some scientists at UC Davis (I imagine them to be quite the party animals) recently performed some tests that seem to show that dietary silicon is still quite prevalent in most lightly-hued beers, and that in fact most Americans get their dietary silicon from this exact source.

So, basically what your saying, scientists, is that if I drink 15 – 20 beers a day, can pretty much become Superman… right?

Full story at news.com.au