Beer is a fat-free, cholesterol-free, and low-sugar beverage. Beer is good for digestive health. One ingredient of beer is malted barley, an excellent source of soluble fiber. Soluble fiber is essential for promoting healthy bowel function and facilitates better food digestion and absorption. Beer has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. This benefit is largely a result of the alcohol content in beer. Drinking one to two units of alcohol a day, five days a week, has been shown to decrease chances for coronary heart disease. Alcohol can thin out blood, helping decrease the risk of clots from forming and thus protecting your heart’s coronary arteries from being clogged. The same explanation can be used for beer’s added benefit of reducing the risk for strokes as well. Aside from that, beer also contains vitamin B6, which has been shown to prevent the alcohol-induced spike in blood homocysteine, a possible risk factor for heart disease.