Guiness-A wyzard enigma?

[Garmard]

Is it true or an urban myth that Guiness is packed with iron and good for you?

[Count-A-Strong]

Very true. They used to prescribe it for pregnant women.

[Count-A-Strong]

Cannonballs aren't nearly as good for pregnant women.

[jackthehat]

..........not so good for you, though, wyz..........

[welshlibranr]

yes, my doctor told me to drink half a pint a day after the birth of my son! I hated it, but did drink it for a couple of weeks, it worked, my iron levels returned to normal!...........

[Garmard]

A tad heavier than Guiness wyzard?

[Garmard]

How are you feeling now wyzard?

[Garmard]

Not the halp pint of Guiness wyz?

[alavahalf]

Last St Patricks day ... I drank 16 pints of Guinness ... did I have a bad head the next day..?
Do you think it was the loud music in the bar that caused it..?

[Garmard]

The loud music alavahalf as the iron in the Guiness would have enhanced your well-being.

[237SJ]

It`s a myth. I remember someone I used to work with 25 years ago being told to drink 1/2 pint of Guinness a day as she was pregnant. There`s hardly any iron in Guinness and you would have to drink about 3 pints a day to get the same iron as is in an egg. Not sure about the B vitamins from the yeast though - but still not a good idea when pregnant. Maybe the myth comes from the old advertising campaign that said "Guinness is good for you"

[ELVIS68]

Drink enough of it and you`ll be sh!tting liquid cannonballs for the next 4 days

[alavahalf]

You can't phone your mates up and say...Fancy an egg..?

[askyourgran]

He probably doesn't feel anything at all at this time of night.

i drank Guiness when I was expecting my daughter but I put on too much weight, had to stop drinking it.

[craft1948]

When I had my daughter in 1970 they used to give the mothers a bottle of Milk Stout a day in the maternity hospital.

[jno]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3266819.stm